Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Sentinel, Pomeroy | ||||||||||
Pomeroy, West Virginia | ||||||||||
Owner: Heartland Publications (Fla.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Sentinel, Pomeroy | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 2.7 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 2.6 | N/A | |||||||
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, Heartland Publications (Fla.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 85. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Daily Sentinel, Pomeroy | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer 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 Evening Times, Little Falls, New York, with a 20 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.5 percent non-white. Its index is 791. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 3,645 ranks 1275 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 Sentinel, Pomeroy | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 138 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 159 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.1 | 24 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 58 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 15 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 217 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.6 | 611 | ||||||||
White | 97.4 | 22,461 | ||||||||
Total | 23,072 | |||||||||
Home county: Meigs | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 138 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 159 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.1 | 24 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 58 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 15 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 217 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.6 | 611 | ||||||||
White | 97.4 | 22,461 | ||||||||
Total | 23,072 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Meigs. | ||||||||||
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 Sentinel, Pomeroy | ||||||||||
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 |
|
45769 / Pomeroy / OH / 0 mi. | 1,215 | 2,610 | 46.6 | $26,492 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45760 / Middleport / OH / 5.4 mi. | 609 | 1,621 | 37.6 | $23,254 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
45771 / Racine / OH / 8.4 mi. | 550 | 1,389 | 39.6 | $31,293 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45775 / Rutland / OH / 6.5 mi. | 178 | 434 | 41.0 | $25,313 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
45779 / Syracuse / OH / 5.8 mi. | 177 | 321 | 55.1 | $29,615 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
45772 / Reedsville / OH / 11 mi. | 167 | 832 | 20.1 | $30,543 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
45743 / Long Bottom / OH / 8.5 mi. | 156 | 610 | 25.6 | $28,291 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
45741 / Langsville / OH / 10.7 mi. | 111 | 353 | 31.4 | $27,188 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
25260 / Mason / WV / 3.8 mi. | 70 | 760 | 9.2 | $26,563 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
45770 / Portland / OH / 12.8 mi. | 63 | 216 | 29.2 | $29,896 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
45723 / Coolville / OH / 14.8 mi. | 40 | 1,394 | 2.9 | $32,801 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
45620 / Cheshire / OH / 9.5 mi. | 35 | 492 | 7.1 | $32,500 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
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