Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Ashland Times-Gazette | ||||||||||
Ashland, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Dix Communications (Ohio) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Ashland Times-Gazette | ||||||||||
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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Dix Communications (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 49. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Ashland Times-Gazette | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 12,092 ranks 701 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 Ashland Times-Gazette | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 399 | ||||||||
Black | 0.8 | 452 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 315 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 56 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 32 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 401 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.9 | 1,655 | ||||||||
White | 97.2 | 56,352 | ||||||||
Total | 58,007 | |||||||||
Home county: Ashland | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 339 | ||||||||
Black | 0.8 | 419 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 301 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 51 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 30 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 362 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.9 | 1,502 | ||||||||
White | 97.1 | 51,021 | ||||||||
Total | 52,523 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Ashland. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Ashland Times-Gazette | ||||||||||
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 |
|
44805 / Widowville / OH / 0 mi. | 7,826 | 12,323 | 63.5 | $37,850 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
44842 / Loudonville / OH / 14.5 mi. | 896 | 2,250 | 39.8 | $37,233 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44840 / Mohicanville / OH / 7 mi. | 541 | 1,032 | 52.4 | $42,744 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
44287 / West Salem / OH / 12.5 mi. | 499 | 2,507 | 19.9 | $44,039 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44880 / Sullivan / OH / 12.2 mi. | 399 | 754 | 52.9 | $43,929 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
44866 / Rowsburg / OH / 7.1 mi. | 309 | 637 | 48.5 | $44,037 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44859 / Nova / OH / 9.3 mi. | 302 | 631 | 47.9 | $47,667 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44864 / Perrysville / OH / 13.4 mi. | 296 | 1,155 | 25.6 | $40,250 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44851 / Ruggles / OH / 16.3 mi. | 226 | 1,934 | 11.7 | $38,719 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44837 / Shenandoah / OH / 14.6 mi. | 140 | 1,541 | 9.1 | $35,222 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44838 / Hayesville / OH / 6.4 mi. | 105 | 82 | 128.0 | $40,938 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
44903 / Pavonia / OH / 11.7 mi. | 85 | 10,197 | 0.8 | $38,456 | 24.9 | 1.0 | 21.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44874 / Savannah / OH / 7.2 mi. | 63 | 80 | 78.8 | $32,857 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
44691 / Wooster / OH / 17.9 mi. | 62 | 16,470 | 0.4 | $41,311 | 5.5 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
44878 / Shiloh / OH / 12.7 mi. | 55 | 1,013 | 5.4 | $40,577 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
44638 / McZena / OH / 17.6 mi. | 39 | 529 | 7.4 | $32,500 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
File | oh_ashland_times-gazette | |||||||||
Time | 5/21/05 8:24 PM | |||||||||
Page | 700 | |||||||||
Member | 134300 |