Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Helena Independent Record | ||||||||||
Helena, Montana | ||||||||||
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 4.5 | |||||||||
2003 | 4.8 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | 2003 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Helena Independent Record | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 5.5 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 83 | |||||||
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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Helena Independent Record | ||||||||||
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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,254 ranks 635 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 Helena Independent Record | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.5 | 979 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 126 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 351 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.8 | 1,198 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 20 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 930 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.5 | 3,604 | ||||||||
White | 94.6 | 62,577 | ||||||||
Total | 66,181 | |||||||||
Home county: Lewis and Clark | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.5 | 843 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 104 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 308 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.9 | 1,078 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 16 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 796 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.6 | 3,145 | ||||||||
White | 94.4 | 52,571 | ||||||||
Total | 55,716 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Lewis and Clark. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Helena Independent Record | ||||||||||
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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59601 / Helena / MT / 2.1 mi. | 7,968 | 12,794 | 62.3 | $35,462 | 6.1 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 0.8 | |
59602 / Helena / MT / 1.9 mi. | 3,128 | 6,813 | 45.9 | $41,417 | 5.0 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 0.4 | |
59635 / East Helena / MT / 3.4 mi. | 969 | 2,015 | 48.1 | $40,120 | 5.9 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 0.4 | |
59634 / Montana City / MT / 9 mi. | 770 | 1,460 | 52.7 | $58,750 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
59644 / Townsend / MT / 28.5 mi. | 459 | 1,398 | 32.8 | $31,895 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | |
59632 / Boulder / MT / 27.2 mi. | 205 | 686 | 29.9 | $29,760 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 0.7 | |
59639 / Lincoln / MT / 47.2 mi. | 115 | 581 | 19.8 | $27,273 | 4.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.1 | |
59638 / Jefferson City / MT / 15.6 mi. | 64 | 138 | 46.4 | $42,222 | 7.0 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 1.1 | |
59728 / Elliston / MT / 23.8 mi. | 51 | 151 | 33.8 | $35,833 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | |
59643 / Toston / MT / 35.6 mi. | 38 | 225 | 16.9 | $32,188 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.2 | |
59713 / Avon / MT / 36.7 mi. | 38 | 89 | 42.7 | $25,625 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
59633 / Canyon Creek / MT / 21 mi. | 26 | 81 | 32.1 | $33,500 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 0.0 | |
59648 / Wolf Creek / MT / 27.9 mi. | 26 | 328 | 7.9 | $32,321 | 5.3 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.1 | |
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