Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Crescent-News, Defiance | ||||||||||
Defiance, 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 |
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2005 | 7.1 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 9.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 10.5 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Crescent-News, Defiance | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 7.1 | 8.4 | 85 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 8.3 | 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, 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 Crescent-News, Defiance | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 85. | 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 52 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 17,652 ranks 537 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 Crescent-News, Defiance | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.9 | 5,924 | ||||||||
Black | 1.2 | 1,232 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 337 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 200 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 37 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 643 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.3 | 8,373 | ||||||||
White | 91.7 | 92,529 | ||||||||
Total | 100,902 | |||||||||
Home county: Defiance | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.2 | 2,857 | ||||||||
Black | 1.7 | 657 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 141 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 76 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 18 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 280 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.2 | 4,029 | ||||||||
White | 89.8 | 35,471 | ||||||||
Total | 39,500 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Defiance. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Crescent-News, Defiance | ||||||||||
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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43512 / Defiance / OH / 0 mi. | 8,127 | 11,459 | 70.9 | $45,653 | 12.7 | 8.9 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
43545 / Okolona / OH / 12.3 mi. | 1,469 | 5,653 | 26.0 | $42,722 | 6.9 | 5.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
45879 / Paulding / OH / 15 mi. | 1,123 | 2,472 | 45.4 | $39,349 | 8.2 | 5.1 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43526 / Hicksville / OH / 18.3 mi. | 944 | 2,301 | 41.0 | $41,035 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43502 / Archbold / OH / 15.6 mi. | 650 | 2,647 | 24.6 | $45,688 | 10.9 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
45831 / Continental / OH / 13.5 mi. | 488 | 1,214 | 40.2 | $39,848 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
45873 / Oakwood / OH / 13 mi. | 474 | 943 | 50.3 | $41,250 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43527 / Holgate / OH / 11.4 mi. | 471 | 880 | 53.5 | $42,400 | 12.6 | 11.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
45813 / Antwerp / OH / 20.1 mi. | 428 | 1,417 | 30.2 | $40,532 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43556 / Sherwood / OH / 9.9 mi. | 407 | 672 | 60.6 | $44,118 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43567 / Wauseon / OH / 19.6 mi. | 344 | 4,734 | 7.3 | $41,556 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
43506 / Bryan / OH / 15.3 mi. | 281 | 6,162 | 4.6 | $40,820 | 5.0 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
43549 / Ney / OH / 9.5 mi. | 264 | 523 | 50.5 | $44,625 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
45880 / Payne / OH / 22.8 mi. | 246 | 957 | 25.7 | $41,250 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43524 / Hamler / OH / 16.3 mi. | 204 | 505 | 40.4 | $43,462 | 11.8 | 11.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
45821 / Cecil / OH / 12.9 mi. | 204 | 541 | 37.7 | $42,500 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43532 / Liberty Center / OH / 20.3 mi. | 188 | 1,387 | 13.6 | $45,044 | 5.3 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
43548 / New Bavaria / OH / 11.1 mi. | 168 | 279 | 60.2 | $42,500 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
43557 / Stryker / OH / 13.5 mi. | 140 | 1,010 | 13.9 | $43,902 | 12.8 | 5.9 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43516 / Deshler / OH / 22.8 mi. | 138 | 1,144 | 12.1 | $40,943 | 6.1 | 4.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
45849 / Grover Hill / OH / 19.1 mi. | 101 | 467 | 21.6 | $38,000 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
43535 / Malinta / OH / 15.5 mi. | 82 | 303 | 27.1 | $40,652 | 5.6 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43536 / Mark Center / OH / 13.5 mi. | 75 | 160 | 46.9 | $80,796 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
43517 / Edgerton / OH / 21.2 mi. | 61 | 1,397 | 4.4 | $45,528 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43555 / Ridgeville Corners / OH / 10.4 mi. | 56 | 75 | 74.7 | $31,827 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
45827 / Cloverdale / OH / 18.7 mi. | 37 | 801 | 4.6 | $43,458 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
45856 / West Leipsic / OH / 21.7 mi. | 33 | 1,901 | 1.7 | $42,230 | 15.7 | 14.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
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