Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Chillicothe Gazette | ||||||||||
Chillicothe, 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 |
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2005 | 7.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 5.6 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1997 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1994 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1992 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Chillicothe Gazette | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 99 | |||||||
2004 | 6.3 | 7.5 | 84 | |||||||
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 Chillicothe Gazette | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 99. | 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 41 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 15,329 ranks 603 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 Chillicothe Gazette | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 535 | ||||||||
Black | 5.0 | 4,694 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 328 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 339 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 80 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,098 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.5 | 7,074 | ||||||||
White | 92.5 | 87,530 | ||||||||
Total | 94,604 | |||||||||
Home county: Ross | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 429 | ||||||||
Black | 6.2 | 4,534 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 272 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 206 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 78 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 835 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.7 | 6,354 | ||||||||
White | 91.3 | 66,991 | ||||||||
Total | 73,345 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Ross. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Chillicothe 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 |
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45601 / Chillicothe / OH / 0 mi. | 10,575 | 20,389 | 51.9 | $37,116 | 10.4 | 0.6 | 7.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
45690 / Waverly / OH / 13.2 mi. | 1,169 | 5,564 | 21.0 | $35,084 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
45628 / Frankfort / OH / 11.3 mi. | 898 | 1,768 | 50.8 | $38,153 | 6.3 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
45612 / Bainbridge / OH / 15.4 mi. | 537 | 1,831 | 29.3 | $31,471 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45644 / Kingston / OH / 9.4 mi. | 450 | 1,497 | 30.1 | $42,386 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
45661 / Piketon / OH / 19 mi. | 375 | 2,545 | 14.7 | $29,659 | 3.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
45123 / Ross County / OH / 21.4 mi. | 311 | 2,855 | 10.9 | $33,210 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
45647 / Londonderry / OH / 9.7 mi. | 264 | 725 | 36.4 | $40,758 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
43113 / Thatcher / OH / 17.5 mi. | 256 | 8,873 | 2.9 | $40,899 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
43115 / Clarksburg / OH / 13.7 mi. | 185 | 451 | 41.0 | $35,132 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43135 / Laurelville / OH / 17.9 mi. | 99 | 1,693 | 5.8 | $34,291 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
45673 / Richmond Dale / OH / 11.5 mi. | 93 | 169 | 55.0 | $33,365 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
45613 / Beaver / OH / 20.3 mi. | 88 | 1,253 | 7.0 | $30,175 | 7.1 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | |
43101 / Adelphi / OH / 14.8 mi. | 38 | 140 | 27.1 | $31,625 | 4.9 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
45646 / Latham / OH / 21.7 mi. | 35 | 116 | 30.2 | $29,583 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
45640 / Jackson / OH / 25.2 mi. | 24 | 5,918 | 0.4 | $31,735 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43164 / Williamsport / OH / 18.9 mi. | 23 | 787 | 2.9 | $38,713 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
43145 / New Holland / OH / 19.5 mi. | 13 | 736 | 1.8 | $44,438 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
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