Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Hannibal Courier-Post | ||||||||||
Hannibal, Missouri | ||||||||||
Owner: Morris Communications (Ga.) | ||||||||||
From a report for the Knight Foundation | ||||||||||
by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005 | ||||||||||
Click here to read the national report or to select another newspaper | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Hannibal Courier-Post | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 11.1 | 8.2 | 136 | |||||||
How the index is calculated | ||||||||||
The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff | ||||||||||
divided by the non-white percentage of residents in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
(Parity = 100.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Morris Communications (Ga.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 21. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Hannibal Courier-Post | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
An example of a newspaper of similar circulation, in an area of similar level of non-white residents, but one that has a relatively high Diversity Index, is The Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,450 ranks 884 out of 1,410 daily newspapers in the US. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Details on race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
in the circulation area | ||||||||||
and the home county | ||||||||||
of Hannibal Courier-Post | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 594 | ||||||||
Black | 5.6 | 3,251 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 138 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 131 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 566 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.2 | 4,721 | ||||||||
White | 91.8 | 53,014 | ||||||||
Total | 57,735 | |||||||||
Home county: Marion | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 252 | ||||||||
Black | 4.6 | 1,303 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 93 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 66 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 11 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 328 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.3 | 2,053 | ||||||||
White | 92.7 | 26,236 | ||||||||
Total | 28,289 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Marion. | ||||||||||
About this report | ||||||||||
This third annual report for the Knight Foundation adds context to an annual survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. ASNE has set a goal that | ||||||||||
every newspaper, to help it know its community and gather the news, should employ at least one non-white journalist, and that newspapers should strive to | ||||||||||
employ non-whites in proportion to their share of the community. ASNE's report, at www.asne.org, shows each newspaper's non-white employment, but does | ||||||||||
not disclose how closely that employment mirrors the newspaper's circulation area. | ||||||||||
That gap is filled by the report you are reading now. This report was not done by ASNE, but was done for the Knight Foundation by Bill Dedman and | ||||||||||
Stephen K. Doig. It shows how close each newspaper is to ASNE's goal, by comparing the newsroom staffing with the circulation area population. | ||||||||||
The full report is at www.powerreporting.com/knight. | ||||||||||
Notes and definitions | ||||||||||
1. The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff divided by the non-white percentage of the circulation area's residents. Parity = 100. | ||||||||||
2. Source for staffing: Survey by American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 2005. Newspapers report non-white staff as of the end of the previous year. | ||||||||||
3. Following ASNE's definition, newsroom staff includes only supervisors, reporters, editors, copy/layout editors and photographers. | ||||||||||
4. Also following ASNE's definition, "whites," "blacks," etc., exclude Hispanics, who are counted in a separate category. | ||||||||||
5. Source for boundaries of this newspaper's circulation area: ZIP Code circulation data, Audit Bureau of Circulations, latest available. | ||||||||||
6. A paper may define its circulation area differently for marketing efforts, or news coverage, or to set advertising rates. | ||||||||||
7. If ZIP Codes or counties are used, this report applies a threshold: 10 percent household penetration is required to include an area in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
8. Source for the demographics of residents of that circulation area: US Census 2000. | ||||||||||
9. Source for total circulation: Editor & Publisher magazine, Monday-Friday average at year-end 2004. | ||||||||||
10. Staff of non-English publications, such as the Miami Herald's El Nuevo Herald, are excluded from the ASNE staffing survey for the first time this year. | ||||||||||
Demographics of ZIP Codes | ||||||||||
where sales were reported by | ||||||||||
Hannibal Courier-Post | ||||||||||
Note that some ZIP Codes listed here may not have been included in determining the newspaper's circulation area. In calculating the Diversity Index, a | ||||||||||
ZIP Code was included only if the household penetration was at least 10 percent. Any lower-penetration ZIP Codes are also listed here for your information. | ||||||||||
Also, if the newspaper reported more than 300 ZIP Codes, only the top 300 in weekday sales are listed here. | ||||||||||
ZIP / City / State / Approx. distance in miles from the newspaper's home office | Weekday sales | Households | Penetration % (daily sales per 100 households) | Median household income | Non-white % of population |
Hispanic % of population |
Black % of population |
Native % of population |
Asian % of population |
|
63401 / Withers Mill / MO / 0 mi. | 5,014 | 8,645 | 58.0 | $31,184 | 8.5 | 1.0 | 5.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
63459 / New London / MO / 7.8 mi. | 677 | 1,455 | 46.5 | $37,500 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
63461 / Woodland / MO / 9.2 mi. | 566 | 2,131 | 26.6 | $36,558 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
63456 / Monroe City / MO / 17.7 mi. | 460 | 1,657 | 27.8 | $33,212 | 7.4 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
63334 / Vera / MO / 25.4 mi. | 245 | 2,320 | 10.6 | $33,224 | 17.9 | 0.7 | 15.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
63353 / Louisiana / MO / 23.5 mi. | 225 | 2,117 | 10.6 | $31,936 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
63468 / Shelbina / MO / 32.7 mi. | 176 | 1,222 | 14.4 | $27,727 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
63436 / Madisonville / MO / 14.9 mi. | 149 | 511 | 29.2 | $30,329 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
63462 / Salt River / MO / 23 mi. | 109 | 606 | 18.0 | $34,273 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
63382 / Vandalia / MO / 26.3 mi. | 101 | 1,540 | 6.6 | $27,824 | 18.8 | 1.0 | 15.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
63441 / Frankford / MO / 14.8 mi. | 88 | 434 | 20.3 | $31,042 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
63343 / New Hope / MO / 45.2 mi. | 76 | 1,672 | 4.5 | $33,297 | 6.1 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
63469 / Shelbyville / MO / 34.9 mi. | 66 | 484 | 13.6 | $29,228 | 3.1 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
63336 / Paynesville / MO / 32.3 mi. | 41 | 460 | 8.9 | $30,588 | 9.4 | 1.5 | 6.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
63443 / Hunnewell / MO / 23.8 mi. | 41 | 179 | 22.9 | $25,938 | 5.1 | 0.2 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
63379 / Troy / MO / 50.5 mi. | 34 | 5,482 | 0.6 | $44,164 | 5.3 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
63463 / Philadelphia / MO / 20.8 mi. | 27 | 228 | 11.8 | $32,411 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
63377 / Silex / MO / 39.8 mi. | 25 | 783 | 3.2 | $37,865 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
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