Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Times-News, Hendersonville | ||||||||||
Hendersonville, North Carolina | ||||||||||
Owner: New York Times Co. | ||||||||||
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 | 4.8 | |||||||||
2004 | 4.5 | |||||||||
2003 | 5.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 4.2 | |||||||||
1999 | 4.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 4.5 | |||||||||
1997 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1996 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 4.2 | |||||||||
1994 | 4.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 8.7 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Times-News, Hendersonville | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 4.8 | 9.7 | 50 | |||||||
2004 | 4.5 | 9.7 | 47 | |||||||
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, New York Times Co., | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 69. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Times-News, Hendersonville | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 50. | 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 89 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 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 19,487 ranks 495 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 Times-News, Hendersonville | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.9 | 5,204 | ||||||||
Black | 3.1 | 3,304 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 600 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 228 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 55 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 804 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.7 | 10,195 | ||||||||
White | 90.4 | 95,489 | ||||||||
Total | 105,684 | |||||||||
Home county: Henderson | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.5 | 4,880 | ||||||||
Black | 3.0 | 2,686 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 558 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 188 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 47 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 696 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.2 | 9,055 | ||||||||
White | 89.9 | 80,118 | ||||||||
Total | 89,173 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Henderson. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Times-News, Hendersonville | ||||||||||
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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28791 / Hendersonville / NC / 7.9 mi. | 3,472 | 5,406 | 64.2 | $41,928 | 7.5 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
28739 / Hendersonville / NC / 12.5 mi. | 3,181 | 7,787 | 40.9 | $40,226 | 7.5 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
28792 / Hendersonville / NC / 0 mi. | 2,785 | 10,987 | 25.3 | $32,820 | 16.5 | 10.2 | 4.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
28731 / Flat Rock / NC / 7.5 mi. | 1,982 | 2,681 | 73.9 | $41,900 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
28726 / East Flat Rock / NC / 8.2 mi. | 860 | 1,224 | 70.3 | $29,157 | 18.3 | 13.0 | 3.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
28742 / Horse Shoe / NC / 15 mi. | 841 | 2,472 | 34.0 | $46,943 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
28732 / Fletcher / NC / 6.5 mi. | 770 | 4,850 | 15.9 | $42,816 | 8.8 | 2.1 | 4.5 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
28712 / Brevard / NC / 24.5 mi. | 696 | 7,341 | 9.5 | $37,978 | 8.5 | 1.1 | 5.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
28729 / Etowah / NC / 13.5 mi. | 670 | 1,185 | 56.5 | $34,896 | 7.9 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
28768 / Pisgah Forest / NC / 18.8 mi. | 497 | 2,843 | 17.5 | $42,449 | 6.6 | 1.3 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
28758 / Mountain Home / NC / 6.8 mi. | 322 | 283 | 113.8 | $28,125 | 10.8 | 6.7 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
28790 / Zirconia / NC / 14.4 mi. | 295 | 982 | 30.0 | $33,720 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
28773 / Saluda / NC / 9.7 mi. | 294 | 1,115 | 26.4 | $42,115 | 4.7 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
28710 / Bat Cave / NC / 6.6 mi. | 266 | 77 | 345.5 | $38,750 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
28722 / Columbus / NC / 19.1 mi. | 261 | 2,425 | 10.8 | $40,602 | 7.4 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
28784 / Tuxedo / NC / 11.7 mi. | 247 | 44 | 561.4 | $45,833 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
28782 / Tryon / NC / 14.3 mi. | 182 | 2,811 | 6.5 | $36,777 | 13.2 | 2.6 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
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