Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Mississippi Press, Pascagoula | ||||||||||
Pascagoula, Mississippi | ||||||||||
Owner: Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.) | ||||||||||
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 | 13.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 13.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 13.6 | |||||||||
1995 | 15.0 | |||||||||
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 | 1995 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Mississippi Press, Pascagoula | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 24.8 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 24.8 | 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, Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 63. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Mississippi Press, Pascagoula | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 18,324 ranks 521 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 Mississippi Press, Pascagoula | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
|||||||
Hispanic | 2.0 | 3,049 | ||||||||
Black | 20.5 | 31,058 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1 | 1,617 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 443 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 110 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,284 | ||||||||
Non-white | 24.8 | 37,561 | ||||||||
White | 75.2 | 114,003 | ||||||||
Total | 151,564 | |||||||||
Home county: Jackson | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
|||||||
Hispanic | 2.1 | 2,807 | ||||||||
Black | 20.8 | 27,308 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 2,082 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 416 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 101 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,245 | ||||||||
Non-white | 25.8 | 33,959 | ||||||||
White | 74.2 | 97,461 | ||||||||
Total | 131,420 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Jackson. | ||||||||||
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 Mississippi Press, Pascagoula | ||||||||||
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 |
|
39567 / Pascagoula / MS / 14.9 mi. | 6,270 | 5,310 | 118.1 | $30,870 | 29.4 | 2.0 | 25.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
39553 / Gautier / MS / 7.8 mi. | 2,444 | 5,974 | 40.9 | $41,186 | 31.3 | 2.9 | 25.5 | 0.5 | 1.1 | |
39563 / Moss Point / MS / 3.1 mi. | 2,338 | 5,734 | 40.8 | $32,072 | 72.1 | 1.0 | 70.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
39452 / Lucedale / MS / 32.8 mi. | 1,700 | 8,043 | 21.1 | $34,724 | 10.6 | 1.5 | 8.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
39564 / Ocean Springs / MS / 14.1 mi. | 1,421 | 11,984 | 11.9 | $47,133 | 13.6 | 2.3 | 6.6 | 0.4 | 3.0 | |
39581 / Pascagoula / MS / 11.4 mi. | 900 | 4,530 | 19.9 | $33,233 | 40.9 | 6.0 | 32.4 | 0.2 | 1.5 | |
39565 / Ocean Springs / MS / 19.4 mi. | 799 | 4,753 | 16.8 | $40,753 | 6.5 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
39562 / Moss Point / MS / 2.8 mi. | 673 | 5,792 | 11.6 | $38,628 | 9.0 | 0.6 | 7.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
39451 / Leakesville / MS / 51.4 mi. | 529 | 1,474 | 35.9 | $28,007 | 34.8 | 0.8 | 33.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
36541 / Grand Bay / AL / 13.9 mi. | 182 | 4,474 | 4.1 | $37,737 | 16.3 | 0.9 | 12.5 | 0.4 | 1.6 | |
39456 / Mc Lain / MS / 50 mi. | 142 | 546 | 26.0 | $24,115 | 38.4 | 0.7 | 37.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
File | ms_the_mississippi_press__pascagoula | |||||||||
Time | 5/21/05 11:40 AM | |||||||||
Page | 520 | |||||||||
Member | 124250 |