Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Jeffersonian, Cambridge | ||||||||||
Cambridge, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Dix Communications (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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Jeffersonian, Cambridge | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 4.8 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 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, Dix Communications (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 49. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Daily Jeffersonian, Cambridge | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 12,719 ranks 685 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 Daily Jeffersonian, Cambridge | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 351 | ||||||||
Black | 2.6 | 1,604 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 187 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 165 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 612 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.8 | 2,960 | ||||||||
White | 95.2 | 58,394 | ||||||||
Total | 61,354 | |||||||||
Home county: Guernsey | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 254 | ||||||||
Black | 1.5 | 622 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 123 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 118 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 39 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 528 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.1 | 1,684 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 39,108 | ||||||||
Total | 40,792 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Guernsey. | ||||||||||
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 Daily Jeffersonian, Cambridge | ||||||||||
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 |
|
43725 / Cambridge / OH / 0 mi. | 6,074 | 8,598 | 70.6 | $29,301 | 5.9 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
43723 / Byesville / OH / 6.6 mi. | 1,195 | 2,113 | 56.6 | $29,842 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
43724 / Caldwell / OH / 21.8 mi. | 894 | 2,589 | 34.5 | $32,570 | 11.9 | 0.4 | 10.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43762 / New Concord / OH / 7.3 mi. | 551 | 1,634 | 33.7 | $37,917 | 3.1 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
43780 / Senecaville / OH / 12.3 mi. | 441 | 887 | 49.7 | $29,244 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43773 / Quaker City / OH / 16.8 mi. | 357 | 1,087 | 32.8 | $29,125 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43749 / Kimbolton / OH / 9.3 mi. | 343 | 927 | 37.0 | $29,069 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
43772 / Pleasant City / OH / 11.8 mi. | 326 | 751 | 43.4 | $31,106 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
43755 / Lore City / OH / 8.9 mi. | 300 | 690 | 43.5 | $33,929 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
43732 / Cumberland / OH / 13.6 mi. | 229 | 676 | 33.9 | $37,844 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43778 / Salesville / OH / 12.4 mi. | 196 | 434 | 45.2 | $35,200 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43722 / Buffalo / OH / 9.7 mi. | 191 | 146 | 130.8 | $27,955 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
43713 / Barnesville / OH / 23.1 mi. | 172 | 2,884 | 6.0 | $27,449 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
43768 / Old Washington / OH / 8.3 mi. | 161 | 72 | 223.6 | $28,958 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 2.3 | |
43973 / Freeport / OH / 19.9 mi. | 118 | 767 | 15.4 | $27,401 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43779 / Sarahsville / OH / 18.3 mi. | 113 | 327 | 34.6 | $36,625 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43717 / Belle Valley / OH / 18.1 mi. | 102 | 61 | 167.2 | $32,188 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43788 / Summerfield / OH / 22 mi. | 80 | 319 | 25.1 | $30,357 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43701 / Zanesville / OH / 25 mi. | 68 | 22,157 | 0.3 | $32,494 | 8.5 | 0.6 | 5.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
43767 / Norwich / OH / 10.9 mi. | 68 | 492 | 13.8 | $50,625 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
43832 / Newcomerstown / OH / 14.3 mi. | 66 | 3,045 | 2.2 | $32,437 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43983 / Piedmont / OH / 21.5 mi. | 24 | 176 | 13.6 | $29,643 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
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