Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Courier, Findlay | ||||||||||
Findlay, 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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Courier, Findlay | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Courier, Findlay | ||||||||||
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 22,144 ranks 432 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 Courier, Findlay | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.0 | 4,839 | ||||||||
Black | 1.3 | 1,582 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 1,082 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 212 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 72 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,053 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.3 | 8,840 | ||||||||
White | 92.8 | 113,116 | ||||||||
Total | 121,956 | |||||||||
Home county: Hancock | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.1 | 2,187 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 756 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2 | 876 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 119 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 45 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 579 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.4 | 4,562 | ||||||||
White | 93.6 | 66,733 | ||||||||
Total | 71,295 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Hancock. | ||||||||||
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 Courier, Findlay | ||||||||||
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 |
|
45840 / Findlay / OH / 0.4 mi. | 13,514 | 20,580 | 65.7 | $43,768 | 7.4 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
43316 / Carey / OH / 14.5 mi. | 912 | 2,417 | 37.7 | $36,918 | 3.3 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
44830 / Fostoria / OH / 14.9 mi. | 844 | 7,981 | 10.6 | $33,343 | 13.3 | 7.0 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
45814 / Arlington / OH / 9.3 mi. | 701 | 895 | 78.3 | $45,662 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
45858 / McComb / OH / 8.6 mi. | 686 | 1,073 | 63.9 | $41,458 | 4.7 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
45872 / North Baltimore / OH / 9.3 mi. | 619 | 1,550 | 39.9 | $39,688 | 4.7 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
45817 / Bluffton / OH / 16.4 mi. | 447 | 2,206 | 20.3 | $47,109 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
45856 / West Leipsic / OH / 17.2 mi. | 435 | 1,901 | 22.9 | $42,230 | 15.7 | 14.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
45843 / Patterson / OH / 18.2 mi. | 335 | 1,424 | 23.5 | $40,976 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45875 / Ottawa / OH / 19.7 mi. | 327 | 3,931 | 8.3 | $50,135 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
45881 / Rawson / OH / 8.5 mi. | 286 | 466 | 61.4 | $51,806 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43516 / Deshler / OH / 16.1 mi. | 281 | 1,144 | 24.6 | $40,943 | 6.1 | 4.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
45889 / Van Buren / OH / 6.2 mi. | 269 | 412 | 65.3 | $54,375 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
44804 / Arcadia / OH / 7.3 mi. | 265 | 436 | 60.8 | $50,426 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
43351 / Upper Sandusky / OH / 22.2 mi. | 261 | 4,093 | 6.4 | $38,367 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
45867 / Mount Blanchard / OH / 10.6 mi. | 261 | 466 | 56.0 | $50,815 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
45841 / Rawson / OH / 10.4 mi. | 203 | 356 | 57.0 | $42,107 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
45877 / Pandora / OH / 16.1 mi. | 183 | 781 | 23.4 | $46,607 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45890 / Vanlue / OH / 9.2 mi. | 162 | 244 | 66.4 | $35,313 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
44817 / Bloomdale / OH / 10.9 mi. | 145 | 536 | 27.1 | $45,875 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
45868 / Mount Cory / OH / 10.4 mi. | 138 | 242 | 57.0 | $47,788 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
44802 / Alvada / OH / 9.8 mi. | 128 | 350 | 36.6 | $48,621 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
45836 / Dunkirk / OH / 16.8 mi. | 124 | 591 | 21.0 | $43,077 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
43359 / Wharton / OH / 14.7 mi. | 95 | 315 | 30.2 | $41,080 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
45810 / Ada / OH / 20.3 mi. | 73 | 2,701 | 2.7 | $31,591 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
45816 / Benton Ridge / OH / 7.5 mi. | 71 | 118 | 60.2 | $50,000 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
44883 / Tiffin / OH / 23.5 mi. | 66 | 11,502 | 0.6 | $38,331 | 4.4 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
45830 / Columbus Grove / OH / 21.5 mi. | 56 | 2,236 | 2.5 | $46,057 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43413 / Cygnet / OH / 12.6 mi. | 41 | 578 | 7.1 | $43,988 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43326 / Kenton / OH / 25.9 mi. | 39 | 5,515 | 0.7 | $34,428 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
43529 / Hoytville / OH / 11.4 mi. | 30 | 85 | 35.3 | $36,625 | 19.5 | 17.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | |
45801 / Lima / OH / 27.5 mi. | 26 | 9,078 | 0.3 | $31,762 | 21.6 | 2.0 | 16.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
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Time | 5/14/05 1:49 PM | |||||||||
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