Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette | ||||||||||
Lancaster, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | 42.9 | |||||||||
2004 | 28.6 | |||||||||
2003 | 17.6 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1992 | 5.6 | |||||||||
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 Lancaster Eagle-Gazette | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 42.9 | 3.4 | 1,251 | |||||||
2004 | 28.6 | 3.4 | 834 | |||||||
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, Gannett Co. (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Lancaster Eagle-Gazette | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 1251. | 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 1 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 14,195 ranks 638 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 Lancaster Eagle-Gazette | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 551 | ||||||||
Black | 1.4 | 1,189 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 287 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 191 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 34 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 708 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.4 | 2,960 | ||||||||
White | 96.6 | 83,368 | ||||||||
Total | 86,328 | |||||||||
Home county: Fairfield | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 993 | ||||||||
Black | 2.6 | 3,245 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 904 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 219 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 73 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,124 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.3 | 6,558 | ||||||||
White | 94.7 | 116,201 | ||||||||
Total | 122,759 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Fairfield. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Lancaster Eagle-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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43130 / Lancaster / OH / 0 mi. | 10,712 | 21,621 | 49.5 | $37,967 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
43105 / Baltimore / OH / 11.4 mi. | 863 | 2,836 | 30.4 | $52,230 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43112 / Carroll / OH / 8.4 mi. | 476 | 1,369 | 34.8 | $58,524 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43107 / Bremen / OH / 11 mi. | 403 | 1,010 | 39.9 | $44,426 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43102 / Amanda / OH / 9.2 mi. | 392 | 1,374 | 28.5 | $42,088 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43155 / Sugar Grove / OH / 6.7 mi. | 332 | 865 | 38.4 | $46,420 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43150 / Rushville / OH / 11.9 mi. | 296 | 705 | 42.0 | $41,771 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
43148 / Pleasantville / OH / 9.8 mi. | 255 | 663 | 38.5 | $34,688 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43138 / Logan / OH / 16.2 mi. | 209 | 6,973 | 3.0 | $32,636 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43110 / Canal Winchester / OH / 13.2 mi. | 205 | 6,878 | 3.0 | $54,045 | 14.0 | 1.5 | 9.4 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
43147 / Pickerington / OH / 15.6 mi. | 205 | 9,346 | 2.2 | $75,684 | 8.5 | 1.1 | 4.4 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
43046 / Millersport / OH / 14.1 mi. | 203 | 1,381 | 14.7 | $48,125 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43076 / Thornville / OH / 17.5 mi. | 127 | 3,137 | 4.0 | $47,060 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
43154 / Stoutsville / OH / 13.1 mi. | 125 | 864 | 14.5 | $52,028 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
43748 / Junction City / OH / 16.1 mi. | 94 | 949 | 9.9 | $39,545 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43783 / Somerset / OH / 18.8 mi. | 81 | 1,563 | 5.2 | $35,598 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
43149 / Rockbridge / OH / 11.5 mi. | 57 | 981 | 5.8 | $38,177 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
43136 / Lithopolis / OH / 12.6 mi. | 50 | 94 | 53.2 | $40,391 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43764 / New Lexington / OH / 22.2 mi. | 42 | 2,974 | 1.4 | $33,963 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43157 / Thurston / OH / 10.5 mi. | 28 | 144 | 19.4 | $28,036 | 4.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 0.3 | |
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