Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Advertiser-Tribune, Tiffin | ||||||||||
Tiffin, 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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Advertiser-Tribune, Tiffin | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 3.8 | 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 The Advertiser-Tribune, Tiffin | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 11,124 ranks 735 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 The Advertiser-Tribune, Tiffin | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
|||||||
Hispanic | 1.9 | 913 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 322 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 197 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 54 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 28 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 317 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.8 | 1,831 | ||||||||
White | 96.2 | 46,006 | ||||||||
Total | 47,837 | |||||||||
Home county: Seneca | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
|||||||
Hispanic | 3.4 | 1,972 | ||||||||
Black | 1.7 | 1,016 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 222 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 79 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 532 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.6 | 3,862 | ||||||||
White | 93.4 | 54,821 | ||||||||
Total | 58,683 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Seneca. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Advertiser-Tribune, Tiffin | ||||||||||
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 |
|
44883 / Tiffin / OH / 0 mi. | 6,941 | 11,502 | 60.3 | $38,331 | 4.4 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
44830 / Fostoria / OH / 11.9 mi. | 670 | 7,981 | 8.4 | $33,343 | 13.3 | 7.0 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
44853 / New Riegel / OH / 7.8 mi. | 425 | 485 | 87.6 | $46,375 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
44867 / Republic / OH / 8.9 mi. | 411 | 799 | 51.4 | $39,965 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
44807 / Siam / OH / 14.2 mi. | 346 | 968 | 35.7 | $43,438 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44882 / Sycamore / OH / 11 mi. | 334 | 1,141 | 29.3 | $38,622 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
44818 / Lykens / OH / 14.4 mi. | 328 | 973 | 33.7 | $40,924 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43316 / Carey / OH / 15.2 mi. | 148 | 2,417 | 6.1 | $36,918 | 3.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
44815 / Bettsville / OH / 8.5 mi. | 145 | 309 | 46.9 | $37,500 | 7.6 | 6.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
44844 / McCutchenville / OH / 10.1 mi. | 140 | 280 | 50.0 | $48,750 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
44809 / Bascom / OH / 5.4 mi. | 138 | 107 | 129.0 | $39,625 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
44836 / Green Springs / OH / 8.7 mi. | 108 | 908 | 11.9 | $40,660 | 5.8 | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
44811 / Bellevue / OH / 19.4 mi. | 96 | 5,104 | 1.9 | $42,900 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44802 / Alvada / OH / 14.2 mi. | 92 | 350 | 26.3 | $48,621 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
44861 / Old Fort / OH / 7.8 mi. | 86 | 52 | 165.4 | $57,604 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43351 / Upper Sandusky / OH / 19.8 mi. | 82 | 4,093 | 2.0 | $38,367 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
44841 / Kansas / OH / 10.1 mi. | 46 | 306 | 15.0 | $51,193 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
File | oh_the_advertiser-tribune__tiffin | |||||||||
Time | 5/20/05 12:59 AM | |||||||||
Page | 734 | |||||||||
Member | 136900 |