Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Sun Journal, New Bern | ||||||||||
New Bern, North Carolina | ||||||||||
Owner: Freedom Communications (Ca.) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2001 | 5.9 | |||||||||
2000 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1995 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Sun Journal, New Bern | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 31.4 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 31.4 | 0 | |||||||
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, Freedom Communications (Ca.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Sun Journal, New Bern | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 159 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 Greeley Tribune, Colorado, with a 26.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30 percent non-white. Its index is 88. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 15,467 ranks 600 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 Sun Journal, New Bern | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.6 | 3,958 | ||||||||
Black | 25.1 | 27,212 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 992 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 435 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 133 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,319 | ||||||||
Non-white | 31.4 | 34,049 | ||||||||
White | 68.7 | 74,555 | ||||||||
Total | 108,604 | |||||||||
Home county: Craven | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.0 | 3,677 | ||||||||
Black | 24.9 | 22,729 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 932 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 357 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 119 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,187 | ||||||||
Non-white | 31.7 | 29,001 | ||||||||
White | 68.3 | 62,435 | ||||||||
Total | 91,436 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Craven. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Sun Journal, New Bern | ||||||||||
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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28562 / New Bern / NC / 0 mi. | 5,110 | 11,735 | 43.5 | $42,808 | 27.8 | 1.9 | 24.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
28560 / New Bern / NC / 10.2 mi. | 3,662 | 10,572 | 34.6 | $32,181 | 29.5 | 2.6 | 25.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
28532 / Havelock / NC / 22.3 mi. | 1,466 | 8,310 | 17.6 | $34,626 | 35.3 | 7.9 | 21.8 | 0.7 | 2.3 | |
28586 / Vanceboro / NC / 12.3 mi. | 739 | 2,531 | 29.2 | $30,572 | 32.2 | 2.8 | 27.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
28523 / Cove City / NC / 8.7 mi. | 554 | 1,028 | 53.9 | $30,461 | 32.6 | 1.4 | 29.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
28515 / Bayboro / NC / 23 mi. | 383 | 1,161 | 33.0 | $26,232 | 55.7 | 1.4 | 53.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
28571 / Oriental / NC / 26.7 mi. | 350 | 1,170 | 29.9 | $38,566 | 21.7 | 1.3 | 19.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
28573 / Pollocksville / NC / 9.3 mi. | 349 | 801 | 43.6 | $35,243 | 41.6 | 1.7 | 39.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
28510 / Arapahoe / NC / 20.8 mi. | 291 | 614 | 47.4 | $38,382 | 27.2 | 2.7 | 23.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
28585 / Trenton / NC / 17.6 mi. | 244 | 1,658 | 14.7 | $29,655 | 39.2 | 3.1 | 34.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
28527 / Ernul / NC / 12.1 mi. | 148 | 374 | 39.6 | $45,536 | 13.5 | 4.2 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
28529 / Grantsboro / NC / 15.7 mi. | 147 | 756 | 19.4 | $38,155 | 14.6 | 1.7 | 10.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | |
28519 / Bridgeton / NC / 8.1 mi. | 145 | 152 | 95.4 | $30,000 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
28556 / Merritt / NC / 26.7 mi. | 108 | 452 | 23.9 | $36,618 | 21.2 | 0.6 | 18.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | |
27806 / Aurora / NC / 24.9 mi. | 91 | 1,058 | 8.6 | $26,680 | 48.0 | 1.2 | 46.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
28526 / Dover / NC / 15.5 mi. | 72 | 987 | 7.3 | $26,944 | 46.4 | 3.1 | 42.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
28570 / Newport / NC / 28.3 mi. | 51 | 6,994 | 0.7 | $38,412 | 11.0 | 2.4 | 6.0 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |
28555 / Maysville / NC / 18.9 mi. | 45 | 1,714 | 2.6 | $31,164 | 32.9 | 2.6 | 28.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
28537 / Hobucken / NC / 36.4 mi. | 24 | 98 | 24.5 | $24,444 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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