Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Herald, Circleville | ||||||||||
Circleville, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Brown Publishing (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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1993 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Herald, Circleville | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 3.1 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Brown Publishing (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 52. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Herald, Circleville | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 6,251 ranks 1037 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 Herald, Circleville | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 274 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 455 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 112 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 94 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 23 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 358 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.1 | 1,316 | ||||||||
White | 96.9 | 40,824 | ||||||||
Total | 42,140 | |||||||||
Home county: Pickaway | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 333 | ||||||||
Black | 6.4 | 3,383 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 132 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 141 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 24 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 464 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.5 | 4,477 | ||||||||
White | 91.5 | 48,250 | ||||||||
Total | 52,727 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Pickaway. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Herald, Circleville | ||||||||||
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 |
|
43113 / Thatcher / OH / 0 mi. | 3,549 | 8,873 | 40.0 | $40,899 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
43164 / Williamsport / OH / 9.2 mi. | 547 | 787 | 69.5 | $38,713 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
43103 / South Bloomfield / OH / 8.3 mi. | 521 | 3,482 | 15.0 | $45,919 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
43135 / Laurelville / OH / 14.6 mi. | 428 | 1,693 | 25.3 | $34,291 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43156 / Tarlton / OH / 8.4 mi. | 378 | 101 | 374.3 | $31,875 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43154 / Stoutsville / OH / 5.9 mi. | 372 | 864 | 43.1 | $52,028 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
43116 / Commercial Point / OH / 12.9 mi. | 247 | 128 | 193.0 | $55,250 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43146 / Orient / OH / 15.4 mi. | 110 | 2,681 | 4.1 | $55,943 | 23.6 | 0.5 | 22.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43143 / Mount Sterling / OH / 20.7 mi. | 39 | 2,177 | 1.8 | $42,594 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
45644 / Kingston / OH / 10 mi. | 39 | 1,497 | 2.6 | $42,386 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43102 / Amanda / OH / 9.3 mi. | 29 | 1,374 | 2.1 | $42,088 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
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