Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Advocate, Newark | ||||||||||
Newark, 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 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 11.8 | |||||||||
2003 | 5.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Advocate, Newark | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 10.0 | 4.1 | 245 | |||||||
2004 | 11.8 | 4.2 | 284 | |||||||
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 The Advocate, Newark | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 245. | 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 15 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 20,968 ranks 466 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 Advocate, Newark | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 858 | ||||||||
Black | 1.5 | 1,969 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 644 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 368 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 139 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,314 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.2 | 5,292 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 122,152 | ||||||||
Total | 127,444 | |||||||||
Home county: Licking | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 1,107 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 2,966 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 868 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 414 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 173 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,465 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.8 | 6,993 | ||||||||
White | 95.2 | 138,498 | ||||||||
Total | 145,491 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Licking. | ||||||||||
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 Advocate, Newark | ||||||||||
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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43055 / Newark / OH / 0 mi. | 12,262 | 23,731 | 51.7 | $36,315 | 5.6 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
43056 / Newark / OH / 5.2 mi. | 3,225 | 5,709 | 56.5 | $41,758 | 3.8 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
43023 / Granville / OH / 8.7 mi. | 1,330 | 3,492 | 38.1 | $70,382 | 4.8 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 1.4 | |
43025 / Hebron / OH / 11.4 mi. | 966 | 2,360 | 40.9 | $41,642 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
43076 / Thornville / OH / 14.3 mi. | 621 | 3,137 | 19.8 | $47,060 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
43031 / Johnstown / OH / 15.3 mi. | 575 | 3,789 | 15.2 | $52,109 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
43062 / Pataskala / OH / 16.9 mi. | 572 | 7,073 | 8.1 | $56,755 | 4.3 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
43080 / Utica / OH / 9.9 mi. | 526 | 1,853 | 28.4 | $40,981 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43071 / Saint Louisville / OH / 5.2 mi. | 317 | 814 | 38.9 | $43,973 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
43001 / Alexandria / OH / 12.5 mi. | 231 | 606 | 38.1 | $57,375 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
43008 / Buckeye Lake / OH / 12 mi. | 217 | 835 | 26.0 | $27,734 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
43822 / Frazeysburg / OH / 11.3 mi. | 202 | 1,521 | 13.3 | $41,074 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43046 / Millersport / OH / 15.4 mi. | 171 | 1,381 | 12.4 | $48,125 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43830 / Nashport / OH / 12.7 mi. | 108 | 1,984 | 5.4 | $48,464 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43739 / Glenford / OH / 11.1 mi. | 98 | 582 | 16.8 | $44,712 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43013 / Croton / OH / 18.8 mi. | 53 | 352 | 15.1 | $51,429 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
43721 / Brownsville / OH / 11.3 mi. | 33 | 70 | 47.1 | $37,976 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.0 | |
43068 / Reynoldsburg / OH / 22.9 mi. | 28 | 18,460 | 0.2 | $50,040 | 17.7 | 1.9 | 11.9 | 0.2 | 1.8 | |
43005 / Bladensburg / OH / 12.9 mi. | 23 | 57 | 40.4 | $40,714 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.7 | |
43018 / Etna / OH / 18.5 mi. | 22 | 59 | 37.3 | $32,350 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
43037 / Martinsburg / OH / 11.2 mi. | 20 | 163 | 12.3 | $35,804 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43783 / Somerset / OH / 19 mi. | 20 | 1,563 | 1.3 | $35,598 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
43050 / Mount Vernon / OH / 19.5 mi. | 5 | 10,645 | 0.0 | $35,104 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
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