Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Athens Messenger | ||||||||||
Athens, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Brown Publishing (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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Athens Messenger | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 6.5 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 6.5 | 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, Brown Publishing (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 52. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Athens Messenger | ||||||||||
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 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 10,111 ranks 792 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 Athens Messenger | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 709 | ||||||||
Black | 2.2 | 1,694 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 1,207 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 221 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 76 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 1,078 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.5 | 4,985 | ||||||||
White | 93.5 | 72,233 | ||||||||
Total | 77,218 | |||||||||
Home county: Athens | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 639 | ||||||||
Black | 2.4 | 1,467 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.9 | 1,191 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 164 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 74 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 920 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.2 | 4,455 | ||||||||
White | 92.8 | 57,768 | ||||||||
Total | 62,223 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Athens. | ||||||||||
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 Athens Messenger | ||||||||||
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 |
|
45701 / Athens / OH / 0 mi. | 3,478 | 10,295 | 33.8 | $25,889 | 9.8 | 1.3 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 3.5 | |
45764 / Nelsonville / OH / 13.2 mi. | 1,173 | 3,545 | 33.1 | $23,424 | 5.8 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
45732 / Glouster / OH / 14.2 mi. | 917 | 2,022 | 45.4 | $26,737 | 3.4 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
45710 / Albany / OH / 10.8 mi. | 877 | 2,011 | 43.6 | $35,051 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
45780 / The Plains / OH / 5.5 mi. | 760 | 1,350 | 56.3 | $30,389 | 6.3 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
45651 / Mc Arthur / OH / 20.4 mi. | 378 | 2,253 | 16.8 | $29,086 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
45692 / Wellston / OH / 28 mi. | 264 | 3,588 | 7.4 | $31,318 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
45761 / Millfield / OH / 8 mi. | 260 | 673 | 38.6 | $27,083 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
45719 / Chauncey / OH / 6.7 mi. | 221 | 431 | 51.3 | $24,821 | 6.9 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 2.6 | |
45769 / Pomeroy / OH / 14.3 mi. | 201 | 2,610 | 7.7 | $26,492 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45766 / New Marshfield / OH / 9.2 mi. | 195 | 557 | 35.0 | $40,491 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
45735 / Guysville / OH / 9.6 mi. | 191 | 635 | 30.1 | $28,580 | 4.3 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
45723 / Coolville / OH / 13.2 mi. | 180 | 1,394 | 12.9 | $32,801 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43138 / Logan / OH / 23.1 mi. | 159 | 6,973 | 2.3 | $32,636 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
45778 / Stewart / OH / 10.2 mi. | 129 | 360 | 35.8 | $34,063 | 14.1 | 0.5 | 6.2 | 1.7 | 0.0 | |
45711 / Amesville / OH / 10.5 mi. | 116 | 447 | 26.0 | $23,594 | 14.0 | 1.0 | 9.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
45634 / Hamden / OH / 23 mi. | 112 | 775 | 14.5 | $29,494 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
45716 / Buchtel / OH / 12 mi. | 105 | 132 | 79.5 | $29,231 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
45740 / Jacksonville / OH / 11.6 mi. | 101 | 170 | 59.4 | $24,063 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
45776 / Shade / OH / 8.3 mi. | 79 | 328 | 24.1 | $29,688 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
43144 / Murray City / OH / 14.5 mi. | 55 | 197 | 27.9 | $28,750 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
45782 / Trimble / OH / 12.2 mi. | 47 | 110 | 42.7 | $29,750 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
45698 / Zaleski / OH / 17 mi. | 43 | 108 | 39.8 | $26,667 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.0 | |
45695 / Wilkesville / OH / 20.3 mi. | 40 | 277 | 14.4 | $29,250 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
43111 / Carbon Hill / OH / 15.9 mi. | 39 | 57 | 68.4 | $25,625 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43766 / New Straitsville / OH / 21.8 mi. | 37 | 617 | 6.0 | $27,188 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
43728 / Chesterhill / OH / 16.1 mi. | 36 | 486 | 7.4 | $30,800 | 29.7 | 0.9 | 19.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
45772 / Reedsville / OH / 18.8 mi. | 32 | 832 | 3.8 | $30,543 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
45771 / Racine / OH / 24.5 mi. | 25 | 1,389 | 1.8 | $31,293 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45654 / New Plymouth / OH / 17.3 mi. | 22 | 373 | 5.9 | $33,080 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
45741 / Langsville / OH / 19.3 mi. | 20 | 353 | 5.7 | $27,188 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45760 / Middleport / OH / 21.4 mi. | 19 | 1,621 | 1.2 | $23,254 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43730 / Corning / OH / 21.7 mi. | 16 | 932 | 1.7 | $30,547 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
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