Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Corinthian, Corinth | ||||||||||
Corinth, Mississippi | ||||||||||
Owner: Paxton Media Group (Ky.) | ||||||||||
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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 33.3 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1994 | 25.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1991 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1990 | 14.3 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Corinthian, Corinth | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 11.8 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 11.8 | 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, Paxton Media Group (Ky.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 18. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Daily Corinthian, Corinth | ||||||||||
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 6,780 ranks 992 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 Corinthian, Corinth | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.2 | 532 | ||||||||
Black | 9.7 | 4,290 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 91 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 49 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 21 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 232 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.8 | 5,215 | ||||||||
White | 88.3 | 39,182 | ||||||||
Total | 44,397 | |||||||||
Home county: Alcorn | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.3 | 443 | ||||||||
Black | 11.0 | 3,814 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 85 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 33 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 21 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 185 | ||||||||
Non-white | 13.3 | 4,581 | ||||||||
White | 86.7 | 29,977 | ||||||||
Total | 34,558 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Alcorn. | ||||||||||
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 Corinthian, Corinth | ||||||||||
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 |
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38834 / Wenasoga / MS / 0.5 mi. | 4,991 | 11,186 | 44.6 | $28,491 | 15.0 | 1.3 | 12.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
38865 / Rienzi / MS / 16 mi. | 324 | 1,852 | 17.5 | $33,239 | 12.2 | 1.3 | 10.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
38846 / Indian Springs / MS / 7.8 mi. | 267 | 888 | 30.1 | $32,022 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
38852 / Oldham / MS / 19.2 mi. | 263 | 3,873 | 6.8 | $28,023 | 4.5 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
38683 / Walnut / MS / 20.1 mi. | 207 | 1,934 | 10.7 | $26,087 | 5.3 | 0.8 | 3.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
38833 / Leedy / MS / 11.6 mi. | 167 | 976 | 17.1 | $25,372 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
38357 / Michie / TN / 9.6 mi. | 164 | 1,062 | 15.4 | $29,859 | 6.1 | 0.9 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
38829 / Thrashers / MS / 18 mi. | 140 | 7,199 | 1.9 | $28,253 | 12.1 | 0.6 | 10.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
38375 / Selmer / TN / 15.9 mi. | 97 | 3,594 | 2.7 | $29,144 | 13.5 | 1.1 | 10.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
38367 / Ramer / TN / 9.9 mi. | 93 | 1,069 | 8.7 | $30,422 | 9.5 | 1.0 | 7.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
38339 / Guys / TN / 5.3 mi. | 55 | 282 | 19.5 | $27,039 | 14.2 | 1.6 | 11.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
38326 / Counce / TN / 22 mi. | 53 | 1,071 | 4.9 | $34,967 | 2.9 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
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