Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Enquirer-Journal, Monroe | ||||||||||
Monroe, 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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Enquirer-Journal, Monroe | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 22.4 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 22.4 | 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, 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 The Enquirer-Journal, Monroe | ||||||||||
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 Lake City Reporter, Florida, with a 23.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 21.4 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,638 ranks 876 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 Enquirer-Journal, Monroe | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.0 | 7,283 | ||||||||
Black | 13.9 | 14,470 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 549 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 335 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 64 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 707 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.4 | 23,408 | ||||||||
White | 77.6 | 80,987 | ||||||||
Total | 104,395 | |||||||||
Home county: Union | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.2 | 7,637 | ||||||||
Black | 12.4 | 15,312 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 731 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 415 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 85 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 885 | ||||||||
Non-white | 20.3 | 25,065 | ||||||||
White | 79.7 | 98,612 | ||||||||
Total | 123,677 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Union. | ||||||||||
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 Enquirer-Journal, Monroe | ||||||||||
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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28110 / Monroe / NC / 12.4 mi. | 3,000 | 12,789 | 23.5 | $45,402 | 27.1 | 10.8 | 14.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
28112 / Monroe / NC / 0 mi. | 2,565 | 8,086 | 31.7 | $45,122 | 27.1 | 10.2 | 15.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
28103 / Marshville / NC / 13 mi. | 731 | 3,340 | 21.9 | $42,272 | 22.5 | 1.7 | 19.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
28173 / Waxhaw / NC / 12.9 mi. | 726 | 6,049 | 12.0 | $59,337 | 11.4 | 1.6 | 8.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
28079 / Indian Trail / NC / 15.8 mi. | 724 | 4,155 | 17.4 | $54,870 | 8.3 | 2.0 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 1.1 | |
28174 / Wingate / NC / 7.5 mi. | 529 | 2,280 | 23.2 | $42,198 | 33.7 | 5.3 | 27.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
28104 / Matthews / NC / 16.7 mi. | 387 | 6,625 | 5.8 | $65,768 | 8.5 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
28105 / Matthews / NC / 20.3 mi. | 139 | 11,686 | 1.2 | $65,111 | 15.2 | 3.5 | 7.8 | 0.3 | 2.7 | |
29728 / Pageland / SC / 9.3 mi. | 121 | 3,377 | 3.6 | $28,874 | 40.7 | 5.0 | 34.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
28133 / Peachland / NC / 14.1 mi. | 85 | 1,070 | 7.9 | $42,596 | 19.8 | 1.3 | 16.0 | 0.5 | 1.4 | |
28135 / Polkton / NC / 20.4 mi. | 62 | 1,170 | 5.3 | $31,641 | 44.7 | 1.3 | 41.3 | 0.9 | 0.9 | |
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