Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The News-Messenger and News-Herald, Fremont/Port Clinton | ||||||||||
Fremont, 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 | 16.7 | |||||||||
2004 | 5.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 4.8 | |||||||||
2000 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 10.5 | |||||||||
1998 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1997 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1995 | 15.4 | |||||||||
1994 | 15.4 | |||||||||
1993 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1992 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1991 | 18.2 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1991 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The News-Messenger and News-Herald, Fremont/Port Clinton | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 16.7 | 11.2 | 150 | |||||||
2004 | 5.3 | 11.1 | 48 | |||||||
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 News-Messenger and News-Herald, Fremont/Port Clinton | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 150. | 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 28 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 19,008 ranks 502 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 News-Messenger and News-Herald, Fremont/Port Clinton | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.1 | 4,391 | ||||||||
Black | 2.6 | 1,623 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 172 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 71 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 44 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 594 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.1 | 6,895 | ||||||||
White | 88.9 | 54,973 | ||||||||
Total | 61,868 | |||||||||
Home county: Sandusky | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.0 | 4,298 | ||||||||
Black | 2.6 | 1,620 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 175 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 62 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 46 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 576 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.0 | 6,777 | ||||||||
White | 89.0 | 55,015 | ||||||||
Total | 61,792 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Sandusky. | ||||||||||
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 News-Messenger and News-Herald, Fremont/Port Clinton | ||||||||||
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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43420 / Fremont / OH / 0 mi. | 8,048 | 12,588 | 63.9 | $38,396 | 15.9 | 9.2 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43410 / Clyde / OH / 7.7 mi. | 2,017 | 3,756 | 53.7 | $40,179 | 5.5 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
43431 / Gibsonburg / OH / 10.4 mi. | 846 | 1,682 | 50.3 | $44,618 | 9.3 | 8.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43469 / Woodville / OH / 13.8 mi. | 345 | 1,143 | 30.2 | $48,352 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
44836 / Green Springs / OH / 7.7 mi. | 339 | 908 | 37.3 | $40,660 | 5.8 | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
43435 / Millersville / OH / 8.9 mi. | 266 | 585 | 45.5 | $45,543 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
43442 / Lindsey / OH / 6.9 mi. | 223 | 399 | 55.9 | $48,000 | 10.0 | 9.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
43416 / Elmore / OH / 11.7 mi. | 191 | 1,144 | 16.7 | $42,204 | 5.1 | 4.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
43449 / Oak Harbor / OH / 12 mi. | 175 | 3,175 | 5.5 | $47,720 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
44811 / Bellevue / OH / 15.8 mi. | 118 | 5,104 | 2.3 | $42,900 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43407 / Burgoon / OH / 7.7 mi. | 102 | 230 | 44.3 | $53,182 | 6.1 | 3.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
43464 / Vickery / OH / 8.8 mi. | 97 | 570 | 17.0 | $39,956 | 5.0 | 3.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
44815 / Bettsville / OH / 8.7 mi. | 95 | 309 | 30.7 | $37,500 | 7.6 | 6.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
44841 / Kansas / OH / 11 mi. | 43 | 306 | 14.1 | $51,193 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
43452 / Port Clinton / OH / 15.3 mi. | 41 | 6,012 | 0.7 | $38,947 | 7.8 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44883 / Tiffin / OH / 14.9 mi. | 32 | 11,502 | 0.3 | $38,331 | 4.4 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
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