Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Fremont Tribune | ||||||||||
Fremont, 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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 14.3 | |||||||||
2000 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2001 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Fremont Tribune | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 5.1 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 5.1 | 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 Fremont Tribune | ||||||||||
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 8,187 ranks 898 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 Fremont Tribune | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.5 | 1,476 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 154 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 217 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 91 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 11 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 217 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.1 | 2,166 | ||||||||
White | 94.9 | 40,257 | ||||||||
Total | 42,423 | |||||||||
Home county: Dodge | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.9 | 1,421 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 145 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 200 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 84 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 10 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 190 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.7 | 2,050 | ||||||||
White | 94.3 | 34,110 | ||||||||
Total | 36,160 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Dodge. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Fremont Tribune | ||||||||||
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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68025 / Fremont / NE / 0.1 mi. | 6,006 | 11,765 | 51.0 | $38,312 | 6.2 | 4.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
68649 / North Bend / NE / 14.1 mi. | 293 | 713 | 41.1 | $38,189 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
68031 / Hooper / NE / 11.3 mi. | 273 | 753 | 36.3 | $39,306 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
68002 / Arlington / NE / 6.9 mi. | 220 | 793 | 27.7 | $47,461 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
68057 / Scribner / NE / 16.3 mi. | 204 | 663 | 30.8 | $35,833 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
68015 / Cedar Bluffs / NE / 6.3 mi. | 148 | 476 | 31.1 | $36,774 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
68633 / Dodge / NE / 26.3 mi. | 105 | 533 | 19.7 | $32,639 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
68788 / West Point / NE / 28 mi. | 93 | 2,044 | 4.5 | $33,701 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
68066 / Wahoo / NE / 16.1 mi. | 76 | 1,943 | 3.9 | $36,466 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
68621 / Ames / NE / 7.2 mi. | 75 | 183 | 41.0 | $39,750 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
68064 / Valley / NE / 10.6 mi. | 74 | 1,281 | 5.8 | $42,154 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |
68044 / Nickerson / NE / 5.4 mi. | 64 | 280 | 22.9 | $42,417 | 13.6 | 12.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
68648 / Morse Bluff / NE / 15.2 mi. | 53 | 182 | 29.1 | $36,250 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
68045 / Oakland / NE / 25.6 mi. | 50 | 804 | 6.2 | $36,036 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
68063 / Uehling / NE / 19.1 mi. | 38 | 129 | 29.5 | $29,643 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.3 | |
68664 / Snyder / NE / 22.3 mi. | 37 | 136 | 27.2 | $29,545 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
68050 / Prague / NE / 19.7 mi. | 35 | 281 | 12.5 | $30,795 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
68018 / Colon / NE / 10.6 mi. | 31 | 197 | 15.7 | $40,000 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
68041 / Mead / NE / 14.7 mi. | 31 | 329 | 9.4 | $50,000 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
68038 / Lyons / NE / 31.9 mi. | 29 | 639 | 4.5 | $32,043 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
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