Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Morning Journal, Lisbon | ||||||||||
Lisbon, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Morning Journal, Lisbon | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 4.4 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 4.4 | 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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Morning Journal, Lisbon | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 12,799 ranks 683 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 Morning Journal, Lisbon | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 1,359 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 2,464 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 283 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 186 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 47 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 878 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.4 | 5,217 | ||||||||
White | 95.6 | 114,155 | ||||||||
Total | 119,372 | |||||||||
Home county: Columbiana | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.2 | 1,309 | ||||||||
Black | 2.2 | 2,423 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2 | 265 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 178 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 45 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 810 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.5 | 5,030 | ||||||||
White | 95.5 | 107,045 | ||||||||
Total | 112,075 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Columbiana. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Morning Journal, Lisbon | ||||||||||
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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44432 / Lisbon / OH / 0 mi. | 2,107 | 4,440 | 47.5 | $34,595 | 14.9 | 5.5 | 8.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
43920 / East Liverpool / OH / 9.9 mi. | 2,032 | 10,260 | 19.8 | $27,775 | 5.2 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44408 / Columbiana / OH / 9.7 mi. | 1,760 | 3,870 | 45.5 | $36,955 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44460 / Salem / OH / 12.5 mi. | 1,555 | 10,688 | 14.5 | $36,726 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44413 / East Palestine / OH / 12.3 mi. | 1,454 | 3,115 | 46.7 | $35,801 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43968 / Wellsville / OH / 8.9 mi. | 820 | 3,266 | 25.1 | $31,637 | 6.3 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44431 / Leetonia / OH / 7.1 mi. | 694 | 1,793 | 38.7 | $40,345 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44445 / New Waterford / OH / 9.6 mi. | 529 | 1,263 | 41.9 | $40,049 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43945 / Salineville / OH / 9.8 mi. | 433 | 1,268 | 34.1 | $30,884 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44423 / Hanoverton / OH / 7.4 mi. | 317 | 906 | 35.0 | $36,508 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
44441 / Negley / OH / 10.6 mi. | 259 | 597 | 43.4 | $40,288 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
44455 / Rogers / OH / 7.6 mi. | 211 | 613 | 34.4 | $37,353 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
44452 / North Lima / OH / 14.3 mi. | 127 | 965 | 13.2 | $43,232 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
44490 / Washingtonville / OH / 10.4 mi. | 125 | 313 | 39.9 | $30,125 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
44657 / Minerva / OH / 18 mi. | 112 | 3,944 | 2.8 | $36,660 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
26050 / Newell / WV / 12.2 mi. | 110 | 872 | 12.6 | $29,936 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44427 / Kensington / OH / 10.9 mi. | 96 | 599 | 16.0 | $39,265 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
44625 / East Rochester / OH / 14.5 mi. | 94 | 560 | 16.8 | $38,068 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
26034 / Chester / WV / 15.4 mi. | 87 | 2,174 | 4.0 | $30,137 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
44507 / Youngstown / OH / 23.1 mi. | 84 | 3,298 | 2.5 | $19,677 | 71.2 | 6.4 | 61.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
43930 / Hammondsville / OH / 12.2 mi. | 66 | 281 | 23.5 | $38,500 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
44609 / Beloit / OH / 17 mi. | 66 | 1,569 | 4.2 | $40,633 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44443 / New Springfield / OH / 14.6 mi. | 58 | 788 | 7.4 | $35,375 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44601 / Alliance / OH / 23 mi. | 58 | 14,056 | 0.4 | $34,051 | 11.1 | 0.9 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
44672 / Sebring / OH / 18.8 mi. | 43 | 2,260 | 1.9 | $30,872 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44634 / Homeworth / OH / 16.8 mi. | 35 | 727 | 4.8 | $48,393 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
44406 / Canfield / OH / 17.9 mi. | 27 | 7,676 | 0.4 | $59,511 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.2 | |
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