Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Columbus Telegram | ||||||||||
Columbus, Nebraska | ||||||||||
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Columbus Telegram | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 10.4 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 10.6 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Lee Enterprises (Iowa), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Columbus Telegram | ||||||||||
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 The Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 9,394 ranks 833 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 Columbus Telegram | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 9.4 | 4,916 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 105 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 162 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 106 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 29 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 224 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.6 | 5,542 | ||||||||
White | 89.4 | 46,811 | ||||||||
Total | 52,353 | |||||||||
Home county: Platte | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.5 | 2,072 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 93 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 132 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 74 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 13 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 152 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.0 | 2,536 | ||||||||
White | 92.0 | 29,126 | ||||||||
Total | 31,662 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Platte. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Columbus Telegram | ||||||||||
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 |
|
68601 / Richland / NE / 0 mi. | 5,993 | 10,499 | 57.1 | $40,161 | 9.2 | 7.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
68661 / Schuyler / NE / 14.4 mi. | 373 | 2,247 | 16.6 | $37,699 | 39.9 | 39.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
68632 / Octavia / NE / 16.6 mi. | 278 | 1,503 | 18.5 | $36,078 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
68640 / Genoa / NE / 18.1 mi. | 244 | 650 | 37.5 | $32,375 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
68642 / Tarnov / NE / 17.4 mi. | 220 | 648 | 34.0 | $37,989 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
68662 / Shelby / NE / 11.5 mi. | 170 | 467 | 36.4 | $39,342 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
68624 / Bellwood / NE / 7.7 mi. | 163 | 399 | 40.9 | $35,781 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
68660 / Saint Edward / NE / 25.8 mi. | 155 | 504 | 30.8 | $29,940 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
68651 / Osceola / NE / 16.2 mi. | 149 | 612 | 24.3 | $37,773 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
68653 / Platte Center / NE / 8.4 mi. | 149 | 303 | 49.2 | $36,765 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
68647 / Monroe / NE / 12.5 mi. | 144 | 269 | 53.5 | $38,594 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
68643 / Leigh / NE / 18.3 mi. | 127 | 417 | 30.5 | $32,386 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
68644 / Lindsay / NE / 23.8 mi. | 116 | 320 | 36.3 | $34,559 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
68663 / Silver Creek / NE / 16.8 mi. | 116 | 353 | 32.9 | $35,956 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
68620 / Boone / NE / 34.1 mi. | 102 | 1,290 | 7.9 | $32,875 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
68631 / Creston / NE / 14.1 mi. | 86 | 208 | 41.3 | $32,232 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
68634 / Duncan / NE / 9.1 mi. | 83 | 128 | 64.8 | $35,833 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
68658 / Rising City / NE / 15.6 mi. | 75 | 283 | 26.5 | $35,938 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
68629 / Clarkson / NE / 21.7 mi. | 63 | 570 | 11.1 | $31,458 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
68638 / Fullerton / NE / 30.1 mi. | 53 | 740 | 7.2 | $30,625 | 3.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
68758 / Newman Grove / NE / 28.4 mi. | 47 | 500 | 9.4 | $30,655 | 10.1 | 9.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
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