Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Sandusky Register | ||||||||||
Sandusky, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Sandusky Newspapers (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 |
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2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 7.4 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 7.4 | |||||||||
2000 | 8.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 3.8 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Sandusky Register | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 9.8 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 9.7 | 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, Sandusky Newspapers (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 37. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Sandusky Register | ||||||||||
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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 23,213 ranks 418 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 Sandusky Register | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.7 | 3,770 | ||||||||
Black | 5.4 | 7,426 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 466 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 255 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 89 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,485 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.7 | 13,491 | ||||||||
White | 90.3 | 125,142 | ||||||||
Total | 138,633 | |||||||||
Home county: Erie | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.1 | 1,664 | ||||||||
Black | 8.6 | 6,820 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 299 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 133 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 59 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,066 | ||||||||
Non-white | 12.6 | 10,041 | ||||||||
White | 87.4 | 69,510 | ||||||||
Total | 79,551 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Erie. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Sandusky Register | ||||||||||
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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44870 / Sandusky / OH / 0 mi. | 11,520 | 17,784 | 64.8 | $35,985 | 20.5 | 2.5 | 15.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
44839 / Shinrock / OH / 8 mi. | 2,932 | 5,019 | 58.4 | $50,982 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
44811 / Bellevue / OH / 12.6 mi. | 1,483 | 5,104 | 29.1 | $42,900 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43452 / Port Clinton / OH / 11.1 mi. | 1,276 | 6,012 | 21.2 | $38,947 | 7.8 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44857 / Olena / OH / 13.8 mi. | 1,100 | 8,810 | 12.5 | $40,821 | 6.2 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44824 / Castalia / OH / 5.2 mi. | 1,042 | 1,541 | 67.6 | $56,344 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
44846 / Milan / OH / 9.7 mi. | 771 | 1,228 | 62.8 | $56,726 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43440 / Marblehead / OH / 6.6 mi. | 622 | 1,954 | 31.8 | $42,007 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
43410 / Clyde / OH / 14.3 mi. | 488 | 3,756 | 13.0 | $40,179 | 5.5 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44847 / Steuben / OH / 14.1 mi. | 388 | 1,284 | 30.2 | $47,244 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
44814 / Berlinville / OH / 13.4 mi. | 289 | 970 | 29.8 | $48,977 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44890 / Willard / OH / 23.2 mi. | 193 | 4,431 | 4.4 | $36,745 | 10.4 | 8.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
43420 / Fremont / OH / 20.3 mi. | 192 | 12,588 | 1.5 | $38,396 | 15.9 | 9.2 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43464 / Vickery / OH / 11.4 mi. | 156 | 570 | 27.4 | $39,956 | 5.0 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
44089 / Vermilion on the Lake / OH / 16.1 mi. | 132 | 6,246 | 2.1 | $51,290 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43438 / Kelleys Island / OH / 11.1 mi. | 78 | 183 | 42.6 | $35,500 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43449 / Oak Harbor / OH / 21.4 mi. | 62 | 3,175 | 2.0 | $47,720 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
44807 / Siam / OH / 24.8 mi. | 61 | 968 | 6.3 | $43,438 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44826 / East Townsend / OH / 17 mi. | 57 | 607 | 9.4 | $40,573 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
43456 / Put in Bay / OH / 14.7 mi. | 51 | 355 | 14.4 | $47,604 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44851 / Ruggles / OH / 25.8 mi. | 38 | 1,934 | 2.0 | $38,719 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44836 / Green Springs / OH / 21.7 mi. | 37 | 908 | 4.1 | $40,660 | 5.8 | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
44855 / North Fairfield / OH / 21.9 mi. | 24 | 428 | 5.6 | $45,132 | 5.6 | 3.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44889 / West Clarksfield / OH / 20.3 mi. | 23 | 2,302 | 1.0 | $51,651 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44837 / Shenandoah / OH / 27.6 mi. | 18 | 1,541 | 1.2 | $35,222 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
File | oh_sandusky_register | |||||||||
Time | 5/14/05 2:10 PM | |||||||||
Page | 418 | |||||||||
Member | 136700 |