Minot Daily News... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

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with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Minot Daily News

Minot, North Dakota

Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.)

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

3.3

2004

0.0

2003

0.0

2002

0.0

2001

0.0

2000

0.0

1999

0.0

1998

4.2

1997

4.5

1996

Did not report

1995

0.0

1994

0.0

1993

0.0

1992

0.0

1991

0.0

1990

5.3

The latest year at peak is

1990

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Minot Daily News

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

3.3

16.3

2004

0.0

16.0

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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for Minot Daily News

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 20.

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 149 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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 20,974 ranks 465 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 Minot Daily News

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.3

1,531

Black

1.1

1,324

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

612

Native-American

11.7

14,106

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

1.3

1,613

Non-white

16.0

19,241

White

84.1

101,408

Total

120,649

Home county: Ward

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.9

1,125

Black

2.2

1,262

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

503

Native-American

2.0

1,180

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

1.5

898

Non-white

8.5

5,009

White

91.5

53,786

Total

58,795

The home county of this newspaper is Ward.

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

Minot 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

58701 / South Prairie / ND / 0 mi.

6,446

10,779

59.8

$32,370

6.4

1.2

1.0

2.4

0.6

58703 / Minot / ND / 2.4 mi.

3,589

7,167

50.1

$36,461

7.6

1.5

1.4

2.6

0.7

58318 / Metigoshe / ND / 52.3 mi.

646

1,601

40.3

$30,515

4.0

0.8

0.3

1.9

0.2

58368 / Silva / ND / 56.4 mi.

583

1,675

34.8

$27,176

2.1

0.6

0.1

0.8

0.3

58801 / Williston / ND / 100.2 mi.

519

6,546

7.9

$31,990

8.5

1.1

0.1

4.8

0.2

58763 / Sanish / ND / 53.6 mi.

389

979

39.7

$28,568

70.1

1.9

0.1

64.6

0.2

58341 / Wellsburg / ND / 65.9 mi.

378

1,315

28.7

$33,355

1.4

0.4

0.1

0.3

58748 / Kramer / ND / 39.6 mi.

357

388.0

$27,083

1.0

0.5

0.0

0.5

58790 / Velva / ND / 19.2 mi.

339

613

55.3

$31,705

1.1

0.3

0.1

0.3

0.1

58784 / Stanley / ND / 47.4 mi.

337

748

45.1

$24,745

1.5

0.5

0.0

0.6

0.3

58540 / White Shield / ND / 37.6 mi.

320

928

34.5

$31,285

12.6

1.3

0.0

9.0

0.2

58704 / Minot AFB / ND / 12.4 mi.

281

2,112

13.3

$32,255

23.4

6.2

9.9

0.7

2.9

58852 / Tioga / ND / 71.2 mi.

278

692

40.2

$31,089

2.2

0.1

0.7

0.0

58316 / Belcourt / ND / 68.1 mi.

259

1,977

13.1

$23,269

96.9

0.9

0.1

95.4

0.0

58722 / Burlington / ND / 6.5 mi.

245

521

47.0

$41,667

3.7

1.1

0.4

1.1

0.1

58761 / Mohall / ND / 35.7 mi.

245

497

49.3

$31,300

1.8

0.2

0.3

0.6

0.3

58788 / Towner / ND / 38.9 mi.

234

565

41.4

$28,000

1.8

0.6

0.2

0.3

0.0

58730 / Crosby / ND / 96 mi.

226

595

38.0

$28,088

2.0

0.8

0.0

0.2

0.8

58770 / Parshall / ND / 40.4 mi.

217

454

47.8

$27,500

55.7

2.7

0.2

42.5

0.0

58367 / Rolla / ND / 82.6 mi.

216

764

28.3

$31,534

32.7

0.6

0.1

28.2

0.4

58329 / San Haven / ND / 64.7 mi.

191

983

19.4

$24,342

80.9

0.9

0.1

78.2

0.1

58718 / Tagus / ND / 27.5 mi.

191

365

52.3

$29,464

1.4

0.7

0.2

0.0

0.1

58785 / Surrey / ND / 7 mi.

191

356

53.7

$42,898

3.6

1.5

0.0

1.8

0.3

58759 / Prairieview / ND / 26.4 mi.

156

287

54.4

$29,821

3.5

0.9

0.0

0.9

58781 / Sawyer / ND / 14.2 mi.

149

277

53.8

$29,808

2.1

0.6

0.0

0.6

0.8