Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Lima News
Lima, Ohio
Owner: Freedom Communications (Ca.)
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	3.3
2004	3.2
2003	3.2
2002	0.0
2001	0.0
2000	3.1
1999	6.3
1998	3.0
1997	3.1
1996	6.5
1995	3.0
1994	3.2
1993	10.3
1992	3.7
1991	Did not report
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	1993
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for The Lima News
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	3.3	9.4	35
2004	3.2	9.4	34
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, Freedom Communications (Ca.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Lima News
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 35.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 90 out of 140
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 34,148 ranks 299 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 Lima News
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	1.7	3,937
Black	6.0	13,618
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.4	994
Native-American	0.2	375
Other non-white	0.1	253
Multi-racial	0.9	2,135
Non-white	9.4	21,312
White	90.6	206,236
Total		227,548
	Home county:  Allen
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	1.4	1,545
Black	12.1	13,130
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.6	606
Native-American	0.2	206
Other non-white	0.2	207
Multi-racial	1.3	1,423
Non-white	15.8	17,117
White	84.2	91,356
Total		108,473
The home county of this newspaper is Allen.
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 Lima News
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
45805 / Lima / OH / 5.3 mi.	5,079	9,516	53.4	$39,000	17.5	1.3	13.2	0.1	1.1
45801 / Lima / OH / 7.6 mi.	4,517	9,078	49.8	$31,762	21.6	2.0	16.9	0.3	0.5
45804 / Lima / OH / 8.6 mi.	3,320	7,038	47.2	$26,802	34.0	1.9	29.2	0.3	0.4
45807 / Lima / OH / 0 mi.	2,616	4,173	62.7	$48,444	4.1	1.2	1.6	0.1	0.4
45806 / Lima / OH / 9.8 mi.	2,396	4,165	57.5	$46,403	4.8	1.3	2.0	0.2	0.5
45895 / Wapakoneta / OH / 16.7 mi.	1,793	6,737	26.6	$44,187	1.9	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.3
45833 / Delphos / OH / 8.1 mi.	1,687	4,121	40.9	$39,451	1.6	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.1
45875 / Ottawa / OH / 16.1 mi.	1,474	3,931	37.5	$50,135	4.9	3.8	0.2	0.0	0.3
45830 / Columbus Grove / OH / 8.3 mi.	1,115	2,236	49.9	$46,057	2.6	2.0	0.0	0.2	0.1
45817 / Bluffton / OH / 16 mi.	888	2,206	40.3	$47,109	2.6	1.0	0.6	0.1	0.4
45887 / Spencerville / OH / 12 mi.	840	1,746	48.1	$41,052	2.3	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.1
45891 / Van Wert / OH / 22.9 mi.	812	6,310	12.9	$37,813	4.5	2.1	1.3	0.1	0.3
45885 / Saint Marys / OH / 19.6 mi.	764	5,019	15.2	$41,164	2.7	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.9
45822 / Celina / OH / 28.4 mi.	684	7,562	9.0	$40,147	3.2	1.6	0.1	0.2	0.5
45850 / Harrod / OH / 15.2 mi.	643	1,401	45.9	$45,170	2.4	0.7	0.1	0.3	0.2
45810 / Ada / OH / 19.2 mi.	632	2,701	23.4	$31,591	3.9	0.6	1.2	0.1	1.1
45844 / Fort Jennings / OH / 9.3 mi.	511	1,257	40.7	$51,275	1.3	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.3
45896 / Waynesfield / OH / 18.7 mi.	446	724	61.6	$42,024	2.0	0.6	0.1	0.4	0.0
45856 / Leipsic / OH / 23.3 mi.	383	1,901	20.1	$42,230	15.7	14.7	0.1	0.2	0.2
45853 / Kalida / OH / 12.6 mi.	374	366	102.2	$47,426	2.7	1.7	0.0	0.5	0.2
43326 / Kenton / OH / 31.5 mi.	326	5,515	5.9	$34,428	3.1	1.0	0.7	0.3	0.3
45877 / Pandora / OH / 16.1 mi.	320	781	41.0	$46,607	2.6	1.7	0.2	0.2	0.1
45874 / Ohio City / OH / 27.2 mi.	267	940	28.4	$39,122	1.8	0.8	0.4	0.0	0.1
43348 / Russells Point / OH / 27.9 mi.	227	1,075	21.1	$31,824	2.8	1.4	0.1	0.1	0.3
45831 / Continental / OH / 21.4 mi.	193	1,214	15.9	$39,848	2.7	1.9	0.3	0.1	0.1
45876 / Ottoville / OH / 12.1 mi.	187	178	105.1