Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Medina County Gazette | ||||||||||
Medina, 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 |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1995 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1994 | 4.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Medina County Gazette | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 3.6 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 3.6 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Medina County Gazette | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 159 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 14,469 ranks 625 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 Medina County Gazette | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 1,233 | ||||||||
Black | 1.0 | 1,211 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 829 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 160 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 91 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 963 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.6 | 4,487 | ||||||||
White | 96.4 | 119,124 | ||||||||
Total | 123,611 | |||||||||
Home county: Medina | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 1,399 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 1,304 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 984 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 209 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 112 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,127 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.4 | 5,135 | ||||||||
White | 96.6 | 145,960 | ||||||||
Total | 151,095 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Medina. | ||||||||||
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 Medina County Gazette | ||||||||||
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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44256 / Medina / OH / 0 mi. | 7,456 | 18,685 | 39.9 | $57,711 | 4.5 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
44212 / Brunswick / OH / 7.3 mi. | 1,816 | 13,679 | 13.3 | $56,945 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
44273 / Seville / OH / 7.2 mi. | 835 | 2,508 | 33.3 | $53,405 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44281 / Wadsworth / OH / 9.1 mi. | 827 | 10,021 | 8.3 | $52,954 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
44254 / Lodi / OH / 9.8 mi. | 809 | 2,006 | 40.3 | $38,972 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
44280 / Valley City / OH / 7.1 mi. | 530 | 1,389 | 38.2 | $59,972 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
44253 / Litchfield / OH / 8.7 mi. | 440 | 1,060 | 41.5 | $56,563 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
44233 / Hinckley / OH / 9.1 mi. | 406 | 2,341 | 17.3 | $70,548 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
44275 / Spencer / OH / 12 mi. | 319 | 1,007 | 31.7 | $46,138 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44215 / Medina / OH / 4.9 mi. | 234 | 759 | 30.8 | $40,313 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44251 / Westfield Center / OH / 8.1 mi. | 123 | 129 | 95.3 | $73,750 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
44287 / West Salem / OH / 16.6 mi. | 108 | 2,507 | 4.3 | $44,039 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44235 / Homerville / OH / 14.3 mi. | 93 | 523 | 17.8 | $47,760 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
44214 / Burbank / OH / 13.9 mi. | 72 | 711 | 10.1 | $49,848 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44270 / Rittman / OH / 11.7 mi. | 61 | 3,221 | 1.9 | $37,141 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
44217 / Creston / OH / 11.6 mi. | 26 | 1,470 | 1.8 | $41,788 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
File | oh_the_medina_county_gazette | |||||||||
Time | 5/21/05 5:06 PM | |||||||||
Page | 624 | |||||||||
Member | 136100 |