Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Journal, Park Hills | ||||||||||
Park Hills, Missouri | ||||||||||
Owner: Pulitzer (Mo.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Journal, Park Hills | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 4.2 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 4.2 | N/A | |||||||
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, Pulitzer (Mo.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Daily Journal, Park Hills | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 Eagle Times, Claremont, New Hampshire, with a 4.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.6 percent non-white. Its index is 188. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,214 ranks 896 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 The Daily Journal, Park Hills | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 461 | ||||||||
Black | 1.9 | 1,106 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 188 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 194 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 14 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 501 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.2 | 2,464 | ||||||||
White | 95.8 | 56,095 | ||||||||
Total | 58,559 | |||||||||
Home county: St. Francois | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 447 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 1,105 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 186 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 188 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 14 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 473 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.3 | 2,413 | ||||||||
White | 95.7 | 53,228 | ||||||||
Total | 55,641 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is St. Francois. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Daily Journal, Park Hills | ||||||||||
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 |
|
63640 / Farmington / MO / 13.2 mi. | 3,295 | 7,813 | 42.2 | $32,371 | 7.5 | 1.0 | 4.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
63601 / Park Hills / MO / 0 mi. | 2,206 | 6,201 | 35.6 | $28,737 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
63628 / Bonne Terre / MO / 8.9 mi. | 1,471 | 4,536 | 32.4 | $35,960 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
63624 / Bismarck / MO / 6.1 mi. | 398 | 1,410 | 28.2 | $26,576 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
63664 / Potosi / MO / 24.5 mi. | 240 | 3,292 | 7.3 | $25,993 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
63645 / Fredericktown / MO / 25.7 mi. | 152 | 4,285 | 3.5 | $26,014 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
63653 / Leadwood / MO / 2.6 mi. | 132 | 380 | 34.7 | $25,192 | 3.6 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
63637 / Doe Run / MO / 9.3 mi. | 126 | 296 | 42.6 | $30,625 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
63650 / Ironton / MO / 17.2 mi. | 116 | 1,778 | 6.5 | $26,723 | 3.8 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
63648 / Irondale / MO / 8.1 mi. | 93 | 501 | 18.6 | $31,200 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
63670 / Sainte Genevieve / MO / 29.6 mi. | 84 | 4,319 | 1.9 | $39,889 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
63660 / Mineral Point / MO / 9 mi. | 81 | 1,172 | 6.9 | $21,521 | 14.5 | 0.5 | 11.7 | 1.2 | 0.1 | |
63036 / French Village / MO / 14.3 mi. | 57 | 390 | 14.6 | $37,778 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
63631 / Caledonia / MO / 10.6 mi. | 45 | 372 | 12.1 | $30,202 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
63622 / Belgrade / MO / 16.9 mi. | 34 | 362 | 9.4 | $30,000 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
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