Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
News Journal, Mansfield | ||||||||||
Mansfield, 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 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 18.8 | |||||||||
2003 | 11.4 | |||||||||
2002 | 8.6 | |||||||||
2001 | 5.4 | |||||||||
2000 | 5.4 | |||||||||
1999 | 2.6 | |||||||||
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 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for News Journal, Mansfield | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 13.3 | 8.6 | 155 | |||||||
2004 | 18.8 | 8.6 | 219 | |||||||
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 News Journal, Mansfield | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 155. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 8 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 31,345 ranks 326 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 News Journal, Mansfield | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.2 | 2,836 | ||||||||
Black | 5.6 | 12,758 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 1,103 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 394 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 245 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 2,221 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.6 | 19,557 | ||||||||
White | 91.4 | 208,570 | ||||||||
Total | 228,127 | |||||||||
Home county: Richland | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 1,200 | ||||||||
Black | 9.4 | 12,082 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 684 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 247 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 171 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,558 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.4 | 15,942 | ||||||||
White | 87.6 | 112,910 | ||||||||
Total | 128,852 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Richland. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
News Journal, Mansfield | ||||||||||
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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44903 / Mansfield / OH / 1.1 mi. | 5,276 | 10,197 | 51.7 | $38,456 | 24.9 | 1.0 | 21.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44906 / Mansfield / OH / 3.7 mi. | 4,170 | 7,514 | 55.5 | $35,009 | 9.7 | 1.2 | 5.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
44907 / Mansfield / OH / 2.6 mi. | 3,325 | 6,945 | 47.9 | $34,504 | 9.3 | 1.1 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
44904 / Mansfield / OH / 8.7 mi. | 2,752 | 5,300 | 51.9 | $48,831 | 4.4 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
44905 / Mansfield / OH / 2.2 mi. | 2,628 | 5,205 | 50.5 | $35,352 | 6.3 | 0.8 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
44875 / Shelby / OH / 11.1 mi. | 2,248 | 5,788 | 38.8 | $39,479 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44902 / Mansfield / OH / 0 mi. | 2,220 | 2,629 | 84.4 | $22,522 | 43.5 | 1.4 | 37.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
44833 / Galion / OH / 15.4 mi. | 1,658 | 7,477 | 22.2 | $35,398 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44805 / Ashland / OH / 12.5 mi. | 1,465 | 12,323 | 11.9 | $37,850 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
44813 / Bellville / OH / 11.4 mi. | 1,144 | 2,755 | 41.5 | $40,398 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
44827 / Crestline / OH / 13.5 mi. | 1,010 | 2,890 | 34.9 | $37,339 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44890 / Willard / OH / 24.2 mi. | 652 | 4,431 | 14.7 | $36,745 | 10.4 | 8.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
43338 / Mount Gilead / OH / 19.1 mi. | 568 | 3,519 | 16.1 | $39,273 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44820 / Bucyrus / OH / 24.4 mi. | 470 | 7,826 | 6.0 | $36,282 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
44843 / Lucas / OH / 7.5 mi. | 410 | 879 | 46.6 | $53,688 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44842 / Loudonville / OH / 16.8 mi. | 407 | 2,250 | 18.1 | $37,233 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44865 / Plymouth / OH / 18.1 mi. | 360 | 1,289 | 27.9 | $39,821 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44822 / Butler / OH / 15.6 mi. | 349 | 1,018 | 34.3 | $42,778 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44864 / Perrysville / OH / 12.4 mi. | 313 | 1,155 | 27.1 | $40,250 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44878 / Shiloh / OH / 12.7 mi. | 291 | 1,013 | 28.7 | $40,577 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43019 / Fredericktown / OH / 19 mi. | 268 | 3,155 | 8.5 | $43,432 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44837 / Greenwich / OH / 18.5 mi. | 175 | 1,541 | 11.4 | $35,222 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43315 / Cardington / OH / 27.1 mi. | 160 | 2,325 | 6.9 | $40,397 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
44854 / New Washington / OH / 21.9 mi. | 144 | 716 | 20.1 | $43,603 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
43050 / Mount Vernon / OH / 27.1 mi. | 104 | 10,645 | 1.0 | $35,104 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
44887 / Tiro / OH / 17.9 mi. | 101 | 410 | 24.6 | $41,316 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
44840 / Jeromesville / OH / 17.4 mi. | 53 | 1,032 | 5.1 | $42,744 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
44851 / New London / OH / 24 mi. | 44 | 1,934 | 2.3 | $38,719 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44850 / New Haven / OH / 20.8 mi. | 40 | 44 | 90.9 | $28,750 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43320 / Edison / OH / 23.5 mi. | 31 | 552 | 5.6 | $41,324 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
44856 / North Robinson / OH / 18.2 mi. | 26 | 60 | 43.3 | $32,500 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
43317 / Chesterville / OH / 21.7 mi. | 24 | 25 | 96.0 | $40,417 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
44874 / Savannah / OH / 15.9 mi. | 22 | 80 | 27.5 | $32,857 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
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Time | 5/19/05 6:30 PM | |||||||||
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