Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Citizen, Laconia | ||||||||||
Laconia, New Hampshire | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 11.8 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Citizen, Laconia | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 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 Citizen, Laconia | ||||||||||
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 Eagle Times, Claremont, New Hampshire, with a 4.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.6 percent non-white. Its index is 188. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 9,413 ranks 832 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 Citizen, Laconia | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 507 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 154 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 390 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 191 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 676 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.9 | 1,959 | ||||||||
White | 97.1 | 65,333 | ||||||||
Total | 67,292 | |||||||||
Home county: Belknap | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 418 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 151 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 314 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 164 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 30 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 563 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.9 | 1,640 | ||||||||
White | 97.1 | 54,685 | ||||||||
Total | 56,325 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Belknap. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Citizen, Laconia | ||||||||||
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 |
|
03246 / Laconia / NH / 0 mi. | 4,364 | 9,679 | 45.1 | $40,449 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
03220 / Belmont / NH / 7.4 mi. | 758 | 2,777 | 27.3 | $48,170 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
03253 / Meredith / NH / 5.6 mi. | 707 | 2,680 | 26.4 | $42,695 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
03276 / Tilton / NH / 7.5 mi. | 520 | 3,069 | 16.9 | $43,167 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
03254 / Moultonborough / NH / 14.2 mi. | 309 | 1,848 | 16.7 | $44,592 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
03222 / Bristol / NH / 15.6 mi. | 301 | 1,992 | 15.1 | $40,580 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
03235 / Franklin / NH / 12.7 mi. | 287 | 3,344 | 8.6 | $34,949 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
03264 / Plymouth / NH / 20.4 mi. | 195 | 2,903 | 6.7 | $39,694 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
03217 / Ashland / NH / 11.2 mi. | 176 | 1,180 | 14.9 | $37,411 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
03809 / Alton / NH / 14.1 mi. | 173 | 1,405 | 12.3 | $43,644 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
03269 / Sanbornton / NH / 7.4 mi. | 165 | 979 | 16.9 | $49,000 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
03237 / Gilmanton / NH / 11 mi. | 152 | 606 | 25.1 | $49,250 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
03256 / New Hampton / NH / 8.9 mi. | 117 | 405 | 28.9 | $46,576 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
03223 / Campton / NH / 22.2 mi. | 92 | 1,660 | 5.5 | $37,183 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
03226 / Center Harbor / NH / 10 mi. | 88 | 199 | 44.2 | $60,893 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.7 | |
03301 / Concord / NH / 22.1 mi. | 84 | 12,710 | 0.7 | $41,481 | 5.6 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.6 | |
03307 / Loudon / NH / 18 mi. | 50 | 1,603 | 3.1 | $55,370 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
03227 / Center Sandwich / NH / 18.5 mi. | 44 | 444 | 9.9 | $46,161 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
03266 / Rumney / NH / 25.9 mi. | 43 | 813 | 5.3 | $40,236 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
03894 / Wolfeboro / NH / 16.9 mi. | 42 | 2,585 | 1.6 | $43,950 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
03241 / Hebron / NH / 20.9 mi. | 27 | 339 | 8.0 | $42,159 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
03810 / Alton Bay / NH / 12.9 mi. | 26 | 243 | 10.7 | $42,885 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
03230 / Danbury / NH / 19.9 mi. | 23 | 507 | 4.5 | $39,635 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
03243 / Hill / NH / 14.1 mi. | 23 | 382 | 6.0 | $48,333 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
03837 / Gilmanton Iron Works / NH / 11.7 mi. | 23 | 349 | 6.6 | $51,094 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
03218 / Barnstead / NH / 16.6 mi. | 21 | 379 | 5.5 | $43,864 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
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