Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Bellefontaine Examiner | ||||||||||
Bellefontaine, 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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Bellefontaine Examiner | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 4.1 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 4.1 | 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 Bellefontaine Examiner | ||||||||||
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 8,931 ranks 863 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 Bellefontaine Examiner | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 352 | ||||||||
Black | 1.6 | 797 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 201 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 94 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 31 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 568 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.1 | 2,043 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 48,129 | ||||||||
Total | 50,172 | |||||||||
Home county: Logan | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 332 | ||||||||
Black | 1.7 | 778 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 193 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 87 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 27 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 541 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.3 | 1,958 | ||||||||
White | 95.7 | 44,047 | ||||||||
Total | 46,005 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Logan. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Bellefontaine Examiner | ||||||||||
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 |
|
43311 / Bellefontaine / OH / 0 mi. | 4,294 | 7,459 | 57.6 | $40,233 | 7.3 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
43357 / West Liberty / OH / 8.1 mi. | 946 | 1,589 | 59.5 | $47,995 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
43331 / Lakeview / OH / 14.7 mi. | 574 | 2,378 | 24.1 | $32,886 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
43318 / De Graff / OH / 9.8 mi. | 553 | 1,270 | 43.5 | $47,331 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43324 / Huntsville / OH / 5.7 mi. | 548 | 1,111 | 49.3 | $47,629 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43310 / Belle Center / OH / 11.3 mi. | 381 | 1,183 | 32.2 | $46,774 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
43348 / Russells Point / OH / 10 mi. | 316 | 1,075 | 29.4 | $31,824 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43358 / West Mansfield / OH / 11.6 mi. | 256 | 855 | 29.9 | $47,121 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
43347 / Rushsylvania / OH / 8.4 mi. | 219 | 514 | 42.6 | $43,315 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
43360 / Zanesfield / OH / 6.6 mi. | 204 | 489 | 41.7 | $46,859 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43343 / Quincy / OH / 13.5 mi. | 137 | 575 | 23.8 | $38,083 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43319 / East Liberty / OH / 9.8 mi. | 135 | 358 | 37.7 | $55,625 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43333 / Lewistown / OH / 10.8 mi. | 77 | 255 | 30.2 | $36,534 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43336 / Middleburg / OH / 10 mi. | 70 | 26 | 269.2 | $31,875 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43345 / Ridgeway / OH / 12.8 mi. | 51 | 317 | 16.1 | $43,182 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
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