Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Clovis News Journal
Clovis, New Mexico
Owner: Freedom Communications (Ca.)
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	Did not report
2003	Did not report
2002	0.0
2001	Did not report
2000	10.0
1999	0.0
1998	20.0
1997	10.0
1996	11.1
1995	18.2
1994	10.0
1993	22.2
1992	16.7
1991	Did not report
1990	11.1
The latest year at peak is	1993
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Clovis News Journal
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	0.0	42.1	0
2004	N/A	42.1	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, Freedom Communications (Ca.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Clovis News Journal
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 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 7,576 ranks 942 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 Clovis News Journal
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	32.3	16,598
Black	5.8	2,971
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.7	849
Native-American	0.5	278
Other non-white	0.1	56
Multi-racial	1.7	880
Non-white	42.1	21,632
White	57.9	29,785
Total		51,417
	Home county:  Curry
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	30.4	13,685
Black	6.5	2,935
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.8	824
Native-American	0.6	253
Other non-white	0.1	55
Multi-racial	1.8	831
Non-white	41.3	18,583
White	58.7	26,461
Total		45,044
The home county of this newspaper is Curry.
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
Clovis News Journal
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
88101 / Clovis / NM / 1.3 mi.	7,102	15,601	45.5	$28,934	42.3	30.9	6.9	0.6	2.0
79325 / Farwell / TX / 267 mi.	340	809	42.0	$31,065	33.3	31.2	0.5	0.3	0.6
88124 / Melrose / NM / 22.1 mi.	196	499	39.3	$30,645	12.4	9.4	0.2	0.9	0.9
88135 / Texico / NM / 8.9 mi.	168	565	29.7	$27,375	41.4	36.1	3.2	0.5	0.1
88119 / Lake Sumner / NM / 54.5 mi.	122	889	13.7	$25,917	38.0	36.0	0.1	0.6	0.2
88130 / Portales / NM / 14.9 mi.	95	6,155	1.5	$26,584	38.8	34.5	1.6	0.9	0.6
79009 / Bovina / TX / 19.3 mi.	75	660	11.4	$26,875	69.6	67.7	1.1	0.3	0.0
79347 / Muleshoe / TX / 27.9 mi.	58	2,332	2.5	$28,093	48.6	46.2	1.1	0.2	0.1
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