Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Alamogordo Daily News | ||||||||||
Alamogordo, New Mexico | ||||||||||
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 22.2 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Alamogordo Daily News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 38.6 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 38.6 | N/A | |||||||
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, Gannett Co. (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Alamogordo Daily News | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 Manteca Bulletin, California, with a 63.6 percent non-white staff in a community that is 39.4 percent non-white. Its index is 161. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 7,025 ranks 975 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 Alamogordo Daily News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 29.8 | 16,136 | ||||||||
Black | 4.2 | 2,255 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.4 | 740 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.9 | 506 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 95 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.2 | 1,163 | ||||||||
Non-white | 38.6 | 20,895 | ||||||||
White | 61.4 | 33,220 | ||||||||
Total | 54,115 | |||||||||
Home county: Otero | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 32.2 | 20,033 | ||||||||
Black | 3.7 | 2,285 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2 | 753 | ||||||||
Native-American | 5.1 | 3,152 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 105 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.0 | 1,242 | ||||||||
Non-white | 44.3 | 27,570 | ||||||||
White | 55.7 | 34,728 | ||||||||
Total | 62,298 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Otero. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Alamogordo 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 |
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88310 / Alamogordo / NM / 0 mi. | 5,593 | 15,767 | 35.5 | $31,574 | 40.4 | 30.8 | 4.8 | 0.8 | 1.5 | |
88352 / Tularosa / NM / 24.6 mi. | 684 | 1,960 | 34.9 | $28,161 | 49.4 | 44.2 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 0.3 | |
88337 / La Luz / NM / 18.8 mi. | 375 | 933 | 40.2 | $31,840 | 26.0 | 23.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.5 | |
88325 / High Rolls Mountain Park / NM / 21.8 mi. | 147 | 454 | 32.4 | $39,653 | 11.1 | 8.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
88317 / Cloudcroft / NM / 41.6 mi. | 131 | 871 | 15.0 | $38,276 | 14.3 | 12.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
88330 / Holloman Air Force Base / NM / 4 mi. | 87 | 396 | 22.0 | $36,838 | 31.4 | 12.4 | 12.8 | 0.4 | 3.4 | |
88340 / Mescalero / NM / 41.5 mi. | 59 | 838 | 7.0 | $23,717 | 96.8 | 10.8 | 0.2 | 83.9 | 0.1 | |
88339 / Mayhill / NM / 41.5 mi. | 44 | 157 | 28.0 | $32,344 | 8.6 | 6.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
88314 / Bent / NM / 29.7 mi. | 12 | 83 | 14.5 | $39,667 | 52.3 | 47.2 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 0.0 | |
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