Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Bryan Times | ||||||||||
Bryan, 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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 5.9 | |||||||||
1996 | 5.3 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1992 | 6.7 | |||||||||
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 Bryan Times | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 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 Bryan Times | ||||||||||
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 10,545 ranks 762 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 Bryan Times | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.6 | 1,089 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 282 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 209 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 72 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 12 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 247 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.6 | 1,911 | ||||||||
White | 95.4 | 39,961 | ||||||||
Total | 41,872 | |||||||||
Home county: Williams | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.7 | 1,049 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 278 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 202 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 77 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 12 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 232 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.7 | 1,850 | ||||||||
White | 95.3 | 37,338 | ||||||||
Total | 39,188 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Williams. | ||||||||||
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 Bryan Times | ||||||||||
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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43506 / Bryan / OH / 0 mi. | 4,355 | 6,162 | 70.7 | $40,820 | 5.0 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
43543 / Montpelier / OH / 7.6 mi. | 1,877 | 3,211 | 58.5 | $37,781 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
43517 / Edgerton / OH / 8.3 mi. | 811 | 1,397 | 58.1 | $45,528 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43570 / West Unity / OH / 9.5 mi. | 708 | 1,300 | 54.5 | $39,093 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43554 / Pioneer / OH / 12.5 mi. | 609 | 998 | 61.0 | $43,375 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
43518 / Edon / OH / 11.5 mi. | 588 | 1,084 | 54.2 | $42,172 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
43557 / Stryker / OH / 7.8 mi. | 562 | 1,010 | 55.6 | $43,902 | 12.8 | 5.9 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43501 / Alvordton / OH / 12.4 mi. | 152 | 339 | 44.8 | $43,681 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
43549 / Ney / OH / 6.7 mi. | 116 | 523 | 22.2 | $44,625 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43502 / Archbold / OH / 13.7 mi. | 107 | 2,647 | 4.0 | $45,688 | 10.9 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
43526 / Hicksville / OH / 13.1 mi. | 83 | 2,301 | 3.6 | $41,035 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43512 / Defiance / OH / 15.3 mi. | 79 | 11,459 | 0.7 | $45,653 | 12.7 | 8.9 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
43521 / Fayette / OH / 17.4 mi. | 60 | 1,122 | 5.3 | $35,859 | 7.1 | 6.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43556 / Sherwood / OH / 11.2 mi. | 58 | 672 | 8.6 | $44,118 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43531 / Kunkle / OH / 10.9 mi. | 36 | 62 | 58.1 | $31,250 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
File | oh_the_bryan_times | |||||||||
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