Journal-News, Hamilton... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Journal-News, Hamilton

Hamilton, Ohio

Owner: Cox Enterprises (Ga.)

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

23.1

2004

Did not report

2003

Did not report

2002

Did not report

2001

Did not report

2000

Did not report

1999

3.6

1998

4.2

1997

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

10.3

1994

11.8

1993

Did not report

1992

Did not report

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 Journal-News, Hamilton

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

23.1

8.8

262

2004

N/A

8.9

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, Cox Enterprises (Ga.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 66.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for Journal-News, Hamilton

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 262.

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 12 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 21,649 ranks 446 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 Journal-News, Hamilton

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.6

3,084

Black

4.8

9,324

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.2

2,326

Native-American

0.2

384

Other non-white

0.1

185

Multi-racial

1.0

1,894

Non-white

8.9

17,197

White

91.2

177,166

Total

194,363

Home county: Butler

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.4

4,771

Black

5.2

17,398

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.6

5,197

Native-American

0.2

645

Other non-white

0.1

340

Multi-racial

1.0

3,378

Non-white

9.5

31,729

White

90.5

301,078

Total

332,807

The home county of this newspaper is Butler.

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

Journal-News, Hamilton

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

45013 / Rossville / OH / 5.3 mi.

8,307

19,184

43.3

$44,328

4.0

0.8

1.5

0.2

0.5

45011 / Saint Clair / OH / 0 mi.

5,507

19,370

28.4

$47,679

13.9

2.7

8.9

0.3

1.0

45014 / Indian Springs / OH / 5.3 mi.

3,710

17,462

21.2

$49,949

10.6

1.5

5.7

0.1

2.2

45015 / Princeton / OH / 3.1 mi.

1,588

5,107

31.1

$36,230

4.2

1.4

1.6

0.2

45056 / Reily / OH / 12.9 mi.

1,406

7,960

17.7

$34,199

8.3

1.2

3.6

0.2

2.0

45069 / West Chester / OH / 6.8 mi.

404

14,889

2.7

$73,826

12.1

1.8

3.9

0.2

4.9

45067 / Trenton / OH / 4.9 mi.

266

3,782

7.0

$51,644

2.4

0.9

0.4

0.2

0.3

45053 / Okeana / OH / 14.1 mi.

216

1,029

21.0

$60,530

1.3

0.3

0.1

0.2

0.1

45064 / Somerville / OH / 11.3 mi.

171

922

18.5

$55,427

1.8

0.5

0.1

0.2

45062 / Seven Mile / OH / 5.3 mi.

136

152

89.5

$37,222

1.7

0.0

1.2

45044 / Middletown / OH / 8.3 mi.

125

17,305

0.7

$38,526

15.0

1.1

11.6

0.2

0.7

45311 / Morning Sun / OH / 16.6 mi.

113

2,752

4.1

$41,502

1.5

0.4

0.2

0.1

45003 / College Corner / OH / 18.1 mi.

308

22.4

$36,538

1.8

0.3

0.6

0.0

45050 / Monroe / OH / 7.5 mi.

2,076

2.0

$54,737

2.9

0.7

1.0

0.1

0.3

45042 / West Middletown / OH / 10 mi.

10,961

0.3

$44,979

3.9

0.5

2.0

0.2

0.3

45240 / Parkdale / OH / 7.8 mi.

10,570

0.2

$51,178

56.3

1.4

49.5

0.1

2.9

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