The Joplin Globe... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

The Joplin Globe

Joplin, Missouri

Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.)

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

7.7

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

7.0

1996

7.1

1995

6.5

1994

7.0

1993

4.7

1992

7.0

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 Joplin Globe

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

10.4

N/A

2004

N/A

10.4

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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for The Joplin Globe

This paper

Peer group

The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 29,674 ranks 346 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 Joplin Globe

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.8

6,542

Black

1.0

2,279

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.6

1,324

Native-American

3.4

7,734

Other non-white

0.1

117

Multi-racial

2.6

5,959

Non-white

10.4

23,955

White

89.6

206,417

Total

230,372

Home county: Jasper

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

3.5

3,615

Black

1.5

1,520

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.7

760

Native-American

1.3

1,341

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

2.0

2,048

Non-white

8.9

9,350

White

91.1

95,336

Total

104,686

The home county of this newspaper is Jasper.

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 Joplin Globe

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

64804 / Joplin / MO / 7.2 mi.

6,243

14,320

43.6

$34,451

7.8

2.2

1.3

1.6

0.7

64801 / Joplin / MO / 0 mi.

5,899

13,220

44.6

$30,367

9.5

2.3

2.6

1.4

0.7

64836 / Carthage / MO / 13.3 mi.

2,274

8,324

27.3

$30,977

13.1

8.5

1.0

0.9

1.1

64850 / Neosho / MO / 17.5 mi.

1,907

7,984

23.9

$33,788

8.8

3.2

0.7

1.9

0.9

64870 / Webb City / MO / 3.7 mi.

1,426

4,311

33.1

$30,417

7.1

2.3

0.6

1.4

0.7

74354 / Miami / OK / 29.6 mi.

999

7,191

13.9

$27,816

25.8

2.2

0.9

15.7

0.6

66713 / Baxter Springs / KS / 14.4 mi.

762

2,349

32.4

$28,539

12.1

1.2

0.9

5.2

0.4

64759 / Lamar / MO / 31.3 mi.

757

3,187

23.8

$30,930

3.4

1.0

0.1

0.6

0.3

66739 / Galena / KS / 9.2 mi.

598

2,294

26.1

$30,609

9.8

1.6

0.8

4.5

0.1

64834 / Carl Junction / MO / 7.3 mi.

513

2,549

20.1

$42,022

5.0

1.3

0.3

1.6

0.2

66725 / Columbus / KS / 21.1 mi.

512

2,423

21.1

$29,567

6.1

1.5

0.4

1.7

0.4

64865 / Seneca / MO / 18.6 mi.

497

2,083

23.9

$32,487

11.5

0.9

0.1

6.1

0.4

66762 / Pittsburg / KS / 24.2 mi.

382

9,816

3.9

$27,318

10.4

3.4

2.5

0.9

1.8

74344 / Grove / OK / 38.3 mi.

366

5,273

6.9

$27,376

19.3

1.6

0.1

11.7

0.4

64840 / Diamond / MO / 13.2 mi.

335

893

37.5

$34,444

4.5

1.4

0.3

1.6

0.1

64855 / Oronogo / MO / 15.4 mi.

316

679

46.5

$33,846

4.4

1.3

0.0

1.3

0.3

64862 / Sarcoxie / MO / 23.8 mi.

297

1,206

24.6

$30,439

3.8

0.8

0.3

0.7

0.2

64772 / Nevada / MO / 52.2 mi.

279

5,161

5.4

$30,850

4.2

1.1

0.8

0.9

0.4

64831 / Anderson / MO / 29.1 mi.

277

2,219

12.5

$29,839

10.4

3.6

0.3

2.8

0.1

64841 / Duenweg / MO / 6.5 mi.

271

177

153.1

$26,838

8.0

1.7

0.7

3.1

0.5

64844 / Granby / MO / 20.2 mi.

268

1,727

15.5

$30,386

5.0

1.1

0.1

1.7

0.3

65708 / Monett / MO / 35.2 mi.

263

4,301

6.1

$32,549

12.3

10.0

0.1

0.8

0.6

64755 / Jasper / MO / 20.8 mi.

238

1,040

22.9

$31,214

3.7

1.2

0.2

0.7

0.1

64835 / Carterville / MO / 5.6 mi.

214

692

30.9

$29,797

3.9

0.9

0.2

0.7

0.3

66770 / Riverton / KS / 7.2 mi.

187

415

45.1

$39,250

5.8

1.1

0.6

2.4

0.3

65723 / Pierce City / MO / 29.4 mi.

179

1,401

12.8

$32,125

4.7

2.3

0.1