Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Middletown Journal | ||||||||||
Middletown, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Cox Enterprises (Ga.) | ||||||||||
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 | 6.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 8.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 7.4 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Middletown Journal | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 6.1 | 7.2 | 85 | |||||||
2004 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 106 | |||||||
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, Cox Enterprises (Ga.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 66. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Middletown Journal | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 85. | 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 51 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 19,924 ranks 485 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 Middletown Journal | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 927 | ||||||||
Black | 5.1 | 6,113 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 538 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 202 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 94 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,144 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.6 | 9,018 | ||||||||
White | 92.4 | 110,337 | ||||||||
Total | 119,355 | |||||||||
Home county: Butler | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 4,771 | ||||||||
Black | 5.2 | 17,398 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 5,197 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 645 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 340 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 3,378 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.5 | 31,729 | ||||||||
White | 90.5 | 301,078 | ||||||||
Total | 332,807 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Butler. | ||||||||||
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 Middletown Journal | ||||||||||
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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45044 / Middletown / OH / 2.9 mi. | 6,924 | 17,305 | 40.0 | $38,526 | 15.0 | 1.1 | 11.6 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
45042 / West Middletown / OH / 0 mi. | 5,582 | 10,961 | 50.9 | $44,979 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
45005 / Franklin / OH / 4.7 mi. | 3,455 | 10,948 | 31.6 | $43,605 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
45067 / Trenton / OH / 5.1 mi. | 1,633 | 3,782 | 43.2 | $51,644 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
45050 / Monroe / OH / 5.6 mi. | 1,097 | 2,076 | 52.8 | $54,737 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
45036 / Otterbien Home / OH / 10.7 mi. | 415 | 9,489 | 4.4 | $53,063 | 12.1 | 1.1 | 9.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
45327 / Germantown / OH / 6.5 mi. | 345 | 3,128 | 11.0 | $51,460 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
45066 / Springboro / OH / 8.5 mi. | 323 | 5,753 | 5.6 | $75,510 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
45011 / Saint Clair / OH / 10 mi. | 266 | 19,370 | 1.4 | $47,679 | 13.9 | 2.7 | 8.9 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
45311 / Morning Sun / OH / 15 mi. | 213 | 2,752 | 7.7 | $41,502 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45064 / Somerville / OH / 12 mi. | 119 | 922 | 12.9 | $55,427 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
45330 / Gratis / OH / 10.2 mi. | 62 | 121 | 51.2 | $36,250 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
45342 / Miamisburg / OH / 9.2 mi. | 55 | 12,943 | 0.4 | $46,003 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 2.0 | |
45070 / West Elkton / OH / 8.9 mi. | 23 | 65 | 35.4 | $37,188 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
File | oh_the_middletown_journal | |||||||||
Time | 5/21/05 12:34 PM | |||||||||
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