Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Washington Daily News | ||||||||||
Washington, 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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1999 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1998 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Washington Daily News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 35.6 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 35.6 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Washington Daily News | ||||||||||
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 Manteca Bulletin, California, with a 63.6 percent non-white staff in a community that is 39.4 percent non-white. Its index is 161. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,938 ranks 861 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 Washington Daily News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.0 | 1,739 | ||||||||
Black | 31.6 | 18,526 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 133 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 112 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 38 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 293 | ||||||||
Non-white | 35.6 | 20,841 | ||||||||
White | 64.5 | 37,785 | ||||||||
Total | 58,626 | |||||||||
Home county: Beaufort | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.2 | 1,455 | ||||||||
Black | 29.0 | 13,021 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 106 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 69 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 29 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 227 | ||||||||
Non-white | 33.2 | 14,907 | ||||||||
White | 66.8 | 30,051 | ||||||||
Total | 44,958 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Beaufort. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Washington Daily News | ||||||||||
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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27889 / Washington / NC / 0 mi. | 4,668 | 10,235 | 45.6 | $31,293 | 35.2 | 3.8 | 30.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
27817 / Chocowinity / NC / 9.7 mi. | 844 | 2,435 | 34.7 | $32,483 | 26.6 | 2.6 | 23.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
27810 / Belhaven / NC / 29.1 mi. | 679 | 1,880 | 36.1 | $26,918 | 38.3 | 3.5 | 33.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
27960 / Ocracoke / NC / 70.6 mi. | 570 | 370 | 154.1 | $34,315 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
27808 / Bath / NC / 20.6 mi. | 411 | 965 | 42.6 | $37,670 | 14.7 | 1.4 | 12.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
27806 / Aurora / NC / 27.2 mi. | 327 | 1,058 | 30.9 | $26,680 | 48.0 | 1.2 | 46.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
27865 / Pinetown / NC / 14.5 mi. | 311 | 772 | 40.3 | $35,588 | 13.5 | 1.9 | 11.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
27860 / Pantego / NC / 21.7 mi. | 288 | 770 | 37.4 | $31,688 | 35.1 | 4.9 | 29.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
27814 / Blounts Creek / NC / 17.8 mi. | 251 | 645 | 38.9 | $39,402 | 41.4 | 0.6 | 38.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
27892 / Williamston / NC / 10.4 mi. | 220 | 6,082 | 3.6 | $30,409 | 43.4 | 1.8 | 40.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
27885 / Swanquarter / NC / 48.3 mi. | 181 | 490 | 36.9 | $30,833 | 37.8 | 1.6 | 34.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
27970 / Roper / NC / 33.6 mi. | 181 | 1,394 | 13.0 | $32,522 | 53.5 | 1.8 | 50.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
27824 / Engelhard / NC / 59.9 mi. | 156 | 638 | 24.5 | $22,452 | 50.9 | 3.7 | 46.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
27846 / Jamesville / NC / 16.1 mi. | 128 | 1,149 | 11.1 | $32,750 | 33.5 | 2.8 | 29.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
27875 / Scranton / NC / 36.9 mi. | 78 | 248 | 31.5 | $25,938 | 38.5 | 0.2 | 37.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
27826 / Fairfield / NC / 47.9 mi. | 76 | 261 | 29.1 | $28,015 | 53.2 | 0.8 | 50.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | |
27821 / Edward / NC / 21 mi. | 64 | 170 | 37.6 | $17,857 | 82.5 | 0.9 | 80.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
28586 / Vanceboro / NC / 19.2 mi. | 43 | 2,531 | 1.7 | $30,572 | 32.2 | 2.8 | 27.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
27837 / Grimesland / NC / 8.2 mi. | 41 | 1,616 | 2.5 | $39,403 | 35.6 | 7.6 | 26.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
27928 / Creswell / NC / 39.4 mi. | 39 | 820 | 4.8 | $32,148 | 35.6 | 4.3 | 29.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
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