Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
News-Argus, Goldsboro | ||||||||||
Goldsboro, North Carolina | ||||||||||
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 | 5.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 5.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 5.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 5.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 10.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1998 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1997 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 10.5 | |||||||||
1995 | 5.9 | |||||||||
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 | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for News-Argus, Goldsboro | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 5.3 | 39.9 | 13 | |||||||
2004 | 5.3 | 39.9 | 13 | |||||||
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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for News-Argus, Goldsboro | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 13. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 156 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat, Oklahoma, with a 43.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 36.9 percent non-white. Its index is 118. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 20,692 ranks 473 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 News-Argus, Goldsboro | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.6 | 9,105 | ||||||||
Black | 31.2 | 43,237 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 1,160 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 418 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 136 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,279 | ||||||||
Non-white | 39.9 | 55,335 | ||||||||
White | 60.1 | 83,319 | ||||||||
Total | 138,654 | |||||||||
Home county: Wayne | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.9 | 5,604 | ||||||||
Black | 32.9 | 37,230 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 1,097 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 371 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 126 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,145 | ||||||||
Non-white | 40.2 | 45,573 | ||||||||
White | 59.8 | 67,756 | ||||||||
Total | 113,329 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Wayne. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
News-Argus, Goldsboro | ||||||||||
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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27530 / Goldsboro / NC / 8.4 mi. | 7,165 | 14,697 | 48.8 | $31,535 | 47.3 | 2.1 | 43.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
27534 / Goldsboro / NC / 0 mi. | 6,289 | 12,266 | 51.3 | $39,129 | 35.1 | 4.3 | 26.8 | 0.4 | 2.0 | |
28365 / Mount Olive / NC / 17 mi. | 1,953 | 5,659 | 34.5 | $31,100 | 39.2 | 13.7 | 24.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
27863 / Pikeville / NC / 9.7 mi. | 1,485 | 3,068 | 48.4 | $35,811 | 17.8 | 2.5 | 13.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
28333 / Dudley / NC / 9.4 mi. | 1,406 | 4,113 | 34.2 | $31,647 | 56.9 | 9.7 | 45.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
28551 / La Grange / NC / 8.4 mi. | 678 | 4,746 | 14.3 | $33,137 | 40.4 | 5.5 | 33.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
27830 / Fremont / NC / 13.3 mi. | 630 | 1,982 | 31.8 | $32,500 | 30.5 | 3.4 | 25.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
27569 / Princeton / NC / 16.5 mi. | 438 | 2,486 | 17.6 | $35,424 | 14.5 | 3.8 | 10.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
28578 / Seven Springs / NC / 10.2 mi. | 396 | 1,453 | 27.3 | $32,440 | 39.9 | 32.0 | 6.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
28341 / Faison / NC / 20.8 mi. | 178 | 1,573 | 11.3 | $28,561 | 56.8 | 24.1 | 31.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
28398 / Warsaw / NC / 26.9 mi. | 138 | 2,672 | 5.2 | $28,458 | 63.6 | 15.9 | 46.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
28580 / Snow Hill / NC / 11.8 mi. | 102 | 3,365 | 3.0 | $30,732 | 47.3 | 5.8 | 40.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
28325 / Calypso / NC / 18.6 mi. | 83 | 161 | 51.6 | $26,023 | 28.4 | 8.3 | 18.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
27524 / Four Oaks / NC / 27.8 mi. | 77 | 3,932 | 2.0 | $38,518 | 18.5 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
27542 / Kenly / NC / 22.4 mi. | 70 | 2,963 | 2.4 | $32,386 | 25.8 | 7.7 | 17.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
28508 / Albertson / NC / 16.7 mi. | 43 | 585 | 7.4 | $28,617 | 44.2 | 37.4 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
27883 / Stantonsburg / NC / 15.8 mi. | 41 | 1,279 | 3.2 | $31,575 | 42.3 | 6.5 | 35.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
28349 / Kenansville / NC / 21.8 mi. | 40 | 1,146 | 3.5 | $31,825 | 46.3 | 5.3 | 40.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
28366 / Newton Grove / NC / 29.9 mi. | 16 | 1,730 | 0.9 | $35,558 | 39.3 | 16.6 | 21.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
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