Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Telegraph-Forum, Bucyrus | ||||||||||
Bucyrus, 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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Telegraph-Forum, Bucyrus | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 0 | |||||||
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 Telegraph-Forum, Bucyrus | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Eagle Times, Claremont, New Hampshire, with a 4.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.6 percent non-white. Its index is 188. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 6,865 ranks 988 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 Telegraph-Forum, Bucyrus | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 299 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 258 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 116 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 58 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 14 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 210 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.7 | 955 | ||||||||
White | 97.3 | 34,122 | ||||||||
Total | 35,077 | |||||||||
Home county: Crawford | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 361 | ||||||||
Black | 0.6 | 275 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 154 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 87 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 32 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 270 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.5 | 1,179 | ||||||||
White | 97.5 | 45,787 | ||||||||
Total | 46,966 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Crawford. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Telegraph-Forum, Bucyrus | ||||||||||
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 |
|
44820 / New Winchester / OH / 0 mi. | 5,424 | 7,826 | 69.3 | $36,282 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
44827 / Crestline / OH / 10.4 mi. | 333 | 2,890 | 11.5 | $37,339 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44833 / Sugar Grove Lake / OH / 9.8 mi. | 328 | 7,477 | 4.4 | $35,398 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44854 / New Washington / OH / 10.4 mi. | 227 | 716 | 31.7 | $43,603 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
44849 / Wyandot / OH / 8.2 mi. | 103 | 874 | 11.8 | $40,664 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44887 / Tiro / OH / 10.4 mi. | 88 | 410 | 21.5 | $41,316 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
43351 / Upper Sandusky / OH / 15.9 mi. | 52 | 4,093 | 1.3 | $38,367 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
44856 / North Robinson / OH / 5.7 mi. | 39 | 60 | 65.0 | $32,500 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
44882 / Sycamore / OH / 12.9 mi. | 38 | 1,141 | 3.3 | $38,622 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
44825 / Chatfield / OH / 8.7 mi. | 20 | 82 | 24.4 | $36,875 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
44818 / Lykens / OH / 9 mi. | 19 | 973 | 2.0 | $40,924 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44860 / Oceola / OH / 6.5 mi. | 19 | 25 | 76.0 | $16,786 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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