Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
News-Topic, Lenoir | ||||||||||
Lenoir, North Carolina | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2001 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 18.2 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 22.2 | |||||||||
1997 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for News-Topic, Lenoir | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 9.3 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 9.3 | 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 News-Topic, Lenoir | ||||||||||
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 9,195 ranks 846 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-Topic, Lenoir | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.5 | 1,922 | ||||||||
Black | 5.5 | 4,197 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 314 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 144 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 65 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 450 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.3 | 7,092 | ||||||||
White | 90.7 | 69,210 | ||||||||
Total | 76,302 | |||||||||
Home county: Caldwell | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.5 | 1,927 | ||||||||
Black | 5.4 | 4,201 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 317 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 147 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 62 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 454 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.2 | 7,108 | ||||||||
White | 90.8 | 70,307 | ||||||||
Total | 77,415 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Caldwell. | ||||||||||
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-Topic, Lenoir | ||||||||||
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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28645 / Lenoir / NC / 0 mi. | 6,740 | 18,605 | 36.2 | $33,181 | 12.5 | 2.5 | 8.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
28638 / Hudson / NC / 9.3 mi. | 1,909 | 4,815 | 39.6 | $37,665 | 4.1 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
28630 / Granite Falls / NC / 11.9 mi. | 848 | 6,706 | 12.6 | $39,763 | 4.6 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
28611 / Collettsville / NC / 10.4 mi. | 59 | 233 | 25.3 | $29,125 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
28601 / Hickory / NC / 18.7 mi. | 52 | 18,693 | 0.3 | $42,046 | 15.8 | 6.8 | 4.9 | 0.2 | 3.0 | |
28655 / Morganton / NC / 19.3 mi. | 47 | 20,764 | 0.2 | $36,089 | 19.6 | 4.9 | 9.9 | 0.3 | 3.5 | |
28606 / Boomer / NC / 12.5 mi. | 36 | 769 | 4.7 | $33,387 | 13.1 | 1.3 | 11.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
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