Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Marion Star | ||||||||||
Marion, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 11.8 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 10.5 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Marion Star | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 13.3 | 7.3 | 182 | |||||||
2004 | 11.8 | 7.4 | 161 | |||||||
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, Gannett Co. (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Marion Star | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 182. | 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 23 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 13,695 ranks 656 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 Marion Star | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 798 | ||||||||
Black | 4.8 | 3,824 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 356 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 157 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 105 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 676 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.4 | 5,916 | ||||||||
White | 92.7 | 74,546 | ||||||||
Total | 80,462 | |||||||||
Home county: Marion | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 723 | ||||||||
Black | 5.7 | 3,779 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 343 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 120 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 96 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 576 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.5 | 5,637 | ||||||||
White | 91.5 | 60,580 | ||||||||
Total | 66,217 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Marion. | ||||||||||
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 Marion Star | ||||||||||
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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43302 / Marion / OH / 0 mi. | 11,194 | 20,147 | 55.6 | $36,925 | 10.1 | 1.2 | 6.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
43342 / Prospect / OH / 7.7 mi. | 487 | 1,211 | 40.2 | $47,917 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43314 / Caledonia / OH / 8.2 mi. | 459 | 1,231 | 37.3 | $42,077 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43332 / La Rue / OH / 11.9 mi. | 418 | 830 | 50.4 | $41,761 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
43338 / Mount Gilead / OH / 16.9 mi. | 412 | 3,519 | 11.7 | $39,273 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
43344 / Richwood / OH / 14.6 mi. | 218 | 1,991 | 10.9 | $46,151 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43315 / Cardington / OH / 14.5 mi. | 173 | 2,325 | 7.4 | $40,397 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
43356 / Waldo / OH / 8.5 mi. | 161 | 401 | 40.1 | $42,440 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43320 / Edison / OH / 11.8 mi. | 108 | 552 | 19.6 | $41,324 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43322 / Green Camp / OH / 5.6 mi. | 80 | 133 | 60.2 | $42,188 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43351 / Upper Sandusky / OH / 17.6 mi. | 61 | 4,093 | 1.5 | $38,367 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
43326 / Kenton / OH / 23.9 mi. | 52 | 5,515 | 0.9 | $34,428 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
43341 / New Bloomington / OH / 9.5 mi. | 44 | 329 | 13.4 | $48,988 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
44833 / Sugar Grove Lake / OH / 18.6 mi. | 30 | 7,477 | 0.4 | $35,398 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
43334 / Marengo / OH / 19.7 mi. | 26 | 2,003 | 1.3 | $47,000 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
44820 / New Winchester / OH / 16.6 mi. | 26 | 7,826 | 0.3 | $36,282 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
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