Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Marietta Times | ||||||||||
Marietta, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 6.7 | |||||||||
2003 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2002 | 6.7 | |||||||||
2001 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2000 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1999 | 13.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 10.5 | |||||||||
1997 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1996 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1995 | 15.8 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1991 | 14.3 | |||||||||
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 Marietta Times | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 3.2 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 6.7 | 3.0 | 227 | |||||||
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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Marietta Times | ||||||||||
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 11,089 ranks 738 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 Marietta Times | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 386 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 669 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 320 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 173 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 617 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.0 | 2,206 | ||||||||
White | 97.1 | 72,464 | ||||||||
Total | 74,670 | |||||||||
Home county: Washington | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.5 | 324 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 580 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 298 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 149 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 37 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 543 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.1 | 1,931 | ||||||||
White | 97.0 | 61,320 | ||||||||
Total | 63,251 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Washington. | ||||||||||
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 Marietta 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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45750 / Marietta / OH / 0 mi. | 6,147 | 11,283 | 54.5 | $33,394 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
45744 / Lowell / OH / 7.1 mi. | 481 | 1,205 | 39.9 | $37,961 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
45715 / Coal Run / OH / 12 mi. | 469 | 1,006 | 46.6 | $36,058 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
45786 / Waterford / OH / 11.9 mi. | 456 | 1,103 | 41.3 | $36,860 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
45714 / Belpre / OH / 11.5 mi. | 388 | 4,454 | 8.7 | $32,780 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
45767 / New Matamoras / OH / 21.7 mi. | 358 | 1,153 | 31.0 | $27,042 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
26187 / Williamstown / WV / 2.3 mi. | 351 | 2,362 | 14.9 | $40,147 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
45784 / Vincent / OH / 12.5 mi. | 273 | 1,049 | 26.0 | $41,964 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
45768 / Newport / OH / 9.3 mi. | 250 | 741 | 33.7 | $39,329 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
43724 / Caldwell / OH / 20.8 mi. | 206 | 2,589 | 8.0 | $32,570 | 11.9 | 0.4 | 10.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
45745 / Warner / OH / 15.6 mi. | 173 | 449 | 38.5 | $36,806 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
45729 / Fleming / OH / 9.9 mi. | 167 | 507 | 32.9 | $40,667 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43946 / Sardis / OH / 28.7 mi. | 140 | 842 | 16.6 | $35,804 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
45788 / Whipple / OH / 6.1 mi. | 136 | 385 | 35.3 | $36,071 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
45742 / Little Hocking / OH / 15 mi. | 115 | 1,192 | 9.6 | $39,583 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
45773 / Reno / OH / 5.7 mi. | 103 | 99 | 104.0 | $31,250 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26101 / Vienna / WV / 11.2 mi. | 99 | 16,721 | 0.6 | $28,874 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
43787 / Stockport / OH / 17.9 mi. | 99 | 1,194 | 8.3 | $25,345 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43756 / Reinersville / OH / 24.9 mi. | 97 | 2,264 | 4.3 | $30,625 | 4.7 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
45724 / Cutler / OH / 15.7 mi. | 97 | 585 | 16.6 | $35,357 | 13.5 | 0.1 | 8.4 | 0.8 | 0.5 | |
45727 / Dexter City / OH / 13.8 mi. | 76 | 194 | 39.2 | $31,172 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
43728 / Chesterhill / OH / 23 mi. | 62 | 486 | 12.8 | $30,800 | 29.7 | 0.9 | 19.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
43793 / Woodsfield / OH / 27.2 mi. | 60 | 2,114 | 2.8 | $30,702 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
26170 / Saint Marys / WV / 12.8 mi. | 49 | 2,290 | 2.1 | $32,734 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
45734 / Rinard Mills / OH / 20 mi. | 49 | 316 | 15.5 | $25,938 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
45713 / Bartlett / OH / 18 mi. | 43 | 44 | 97.7 | $14,539 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43754 / Lewisville / OH / 24.1 mi. | 36 | 568 | 6.3 | $28,889 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45712 / Barlow / OH / 10.7 mi. | 30 | 80 | 37.5 | $41,328 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
45746 / Macksburg / OH / 11.8 mi. | 29 | 190 | 15.3 | $23,125 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
45789 / Wingett Run / OH / 14.8 mi. | 25 | 103 | 24.3 | $27,050 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
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