Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Lincoln Journal Star
Lincoln, Nebraska
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa)
From a report for the Knight Foundation
by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005
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Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff
2005	9.9
2004	11.9
2003	12.9
2002	11.8
2001	12.3
2000	6.5
1999	5.5
1998	1.8
1997	1.8
1996	1.6
1995	3.4
1994	3.4
1993	4.2
1992	3.8
1991	2.6
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	2003
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Lincoln Journal Star
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	9.9	8.3	119
2004	11.9	8.4	143
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 Lincoln Journal Star
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 119.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 8 out of 90
newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 74,893 ranks 133 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 Lincoln Journal Star
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	2.7	10,950
Black	1.8	7,290
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.0	7,961
Native-American	0.5	1,940
Other non-white	0.1	393
Multi-racial	1.2	4,861
Non-white	8.4	33,395
White	91.7	366,603
Total		399,998
	Home county:  Lancaster
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	3.4	8,437
Black	2.8	6,892
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.9	7,252
Native-American	0.6	1,411
Other non-white	0.1	352
Multi-racial	1.6	3,880
Non-white	11.3	28,224
White	88.7	222,067
Total		250,291
The home county of this newspaper is Lancaster.
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
Lincoln Journal Star
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
68516 / Lincoln / NE / 7.8 mi.	7,791	11,923	65.3	$64,415	6.1	1.7	1.0	0.1	2.4
68506 / Lincoln / NE / 6.5 mi.	6,849	11,560	59.2	$48,158	6.1	1.8	1.2	0.2	1.6
68510 / Lincoln / NE / 6.2 mi.	5,317	9,565	55.6	$39,366	11.7	3.4	2.7	0.4	3.2
68521 / Lincoln / NE / 3.4 mi.	4,633	9,794	47.3	$42,023	13.3	3.6	2.7	0.6	4.5
68508 / Lincoln / NE / 3.2 mi.	4,617	4,636	99.6	$17,492	18.5	7.4	4.2	0.9	3.9
68502 / Lincoln / NE / 3.8 mi.	4,521	11,527	39.2	$35,627	15.1	5.4	5.1	0.9	1.8
68507 / Lincoln / NE / 7.5 mi.	3,276	5,395	60.7	$45,056	6.2	2.3	1.1	0.4	1.2
68504 / University Place / NE / 5.8 mi.	3,097	6,424	48.2	$30,481	11.1	3.4	3.0	0.6	2.0
68505 / Lincoln / NE / 7.4 mi.	2,995	5,817	51.5	$40,884	6.7	2.0	1.1	0.3	2.1
68512 / Lincoln / NE / 5.9 mi.	2,172	2,848	76.3	$49,406	7.3	1.9	1.6	0.2	2.5
68310 / Rockford / NE / 35.8 mi.	1,488	6,097	24.4	$35,240	3.0	0.9	0.4	0.5	0.3
68434 / Tamora / NE / 16.6 mi.	1,455	2,918	49.9	$44,286	2.8	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.5
68503 / Lincoln / NE / 4.9 mi.	1,343	6,317	21.3	$26,755	31.4	6.9	8.7	1.6	10.1
68522 / Lincoln / NE / 2.8 mi.	1,312	2,667	49.2	$44,948	13.5	3.5	3.4	1.1	4.0
68333 / Kramer / NE / 15.7 mi.	1,083	2,606	41.6	$37,661	16.0	11.0	0.6	0.4	2.9
68528 / Lincoln / NE / 0.6 mi.	887	1,695	52.3	$41,923	15.5	5.5	2.5	0.6	5.5
68467 / York / NE / 39.7 mi.	777	3,801	20.4	$36,806	4.8	1.8	1.3	0.3	0.6
68462 / Waverly / NE / 13.5 mi.	705	1,044	67.5	$51,324	2.5	1.0	0.2	0.4	0.3
68524 / Lincoln / NE / 2.2 mi.	652	1,459	44.7	$43,354	19.2	5.7	7.0	1.9	1.1
68352 / Thompson / NE / 48.1 mi.	615	2,429	25.3	$31,164	2.9	1.6	0.1	0.5	0.2
68526 / Lincoln / NE / 10.7 mi.	551	353	156.1	$71,250	2.9	1.0	0.1	0.1	0.6
68358 / Firth / NE / 20.2 mi.	520	461	112.8	$52,438	1.7	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.5
68405 / Milford / NE / 13.9 mi.	497	1,136	43.8	$40,389	2.9	1.6	0.2	0.3	0.2
68446 / Syracuse / NE / 30.9 mi.	491	1,006	48.8	$39,770	1.4	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.2
68066 / Wahoo / NE / 26.1 mi.	483	1,943	24.9	$36,466	1.9	0.7	0.1	0.3	0.3