Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Repository, Canton | ||||||||||
Canton, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Copley Press (Calif.) | ||||||||||
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 | 7.9 | |||||||||
2004 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 6.7 | |||||||||
2000 | 8.9 | |||||||||
1999 | 3.5 | |||||||||
1998 | 6.5 | |||||||||
1997 | 7.8 | |||||||||
1996 | 11.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 7.5 | |||||||||
1994 | 6.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 7.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 6.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 3.1 | |||||||||
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 Repository, Canton | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 7.9 | 10.1 | 78 | |||||||
2004 | 6.3 | 10.1 | 62 | |||||||
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, Copley Press (Calif.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 43. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Repository, Canton | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 78. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 19 out of 90 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska, with a 9.9 percent non-white staff in a community that is 8.3 percent non-white. Its index is 119. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 65,598 ranks 155 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 Repository, Canton | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 3,466 | ||||||||
Black | 7.0 | 26,949 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 2,051 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 952 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 514 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 5,100 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.1 | 39,032 | ||||||||
White | 89.9 | 346,803 | ||||||||
Total | 385,835 | |||||||||
Home county: Stark | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 3,492 | ||||||||
Black | 7.2 | 27,039 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 2,088 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 873 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 514 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 5,082 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.3 | 39,088 | ||||||||
White | 89.7 | 339,010 | ||||||||
Total | 378,098 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Stark. | ||||||||||
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 Repository, Canton | ||||||||||
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 |
|
44720 / Canton / OH / 7.6 mi. | 7,573 | 15,224 | 49.7 | $50,316 | 4.1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
44708 / Canton / OH / 3.3 mi. | 6,826 | 11,247 | 60.7 | $39,379 | 7.0 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
44646 / Massillon / OH / 6.6 mi. | 6,245 | 17,923 | 34.8 | $41,532 | 10.4 | 0.9 | 7.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
44709 / Canton / OH / 3 mi. | 4,360 | 8,087 | 53.9 | $38,955 | 8.8 | 1.0 | 5.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
44706 / Canton / OH / 4.1 mi. | 3,510 | 7,387 | 47.5 | $34,976 | 8.4 | 0.9 | 5.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
44718 / Canton / OH / 5.2 mi. | 3,376 | 5,096 | 66.2 | $56,677 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 2.2 | |
44641 / Louisville / OH / 8.4 mi. | 3,374 | 7,229 | 46.7 | $45,641 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44705 / Canton / OH / 3.2 mi. | 3,245 | 7,852 | 41.3 | $30,237 | 30.3 | 1.0 | 25.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |
44702 / Canton / OH / 0 mi. | 2,391 | 552 | 433.2 | $9,455 | 34.7 | 1.8 | 27.9 | 1.1 | 0.4 | |
44721 / Canton / OH / 6.9 mi. | 2,343 | 4,425 | 52.9 | $53,922 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
44707 / Canton / OH / 3 mi. | 2,332 | 4,166 | 56.0 | $22,654 | 36.9 | 0.9 | 32.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
44710 / Canton / OH / 2.7 mi. | 2,236 | 4,240 | 52.7 | $30,297 | 8.4 | 0.8 | 5.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44601 / Alliance / OH / 15.2 mi. | 1,932 | 14,056 | 13.7 | $34,051 | 11.1 | 0.9 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
44714 / Canton / OH / 2.5 mi. | 1,600 | 3,923 | 40.8 | $36,454 | 21.2 | 1.0 | 17.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44703 / Canton / OH / 0.8 mi. | 1,389 | 4,403 | 31.5 | $28,377 | 23.7 | 2.2 | 16.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
44657 / Minerva / OH / 15.2 mi. | 1,212 | 3,944 | 30.7 | $36,660 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44730 / Canton / OH / 6.4 mi. | 984 | 2,450 | 40.2 | $40,283 | 7.0 | 0.7 | 4.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
44662 / Navarre / OH / 11.4 mi. | 848 | 3,620 | 23.4 | $37,271 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44632 / Hartville / OH / 12 mi. | 835 | 3,339 | 25.0 | $51,215 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
44704 / Canton / OH / 1.7 mi. | 785 | 1,894 | 41.4 | $22,697 | 68.6 | 1.5 | 61.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
44615 / Carrollton / OH / 22.7 mi. | 732 | 4,291 | 17.1 | $35,854 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
44647 / Massillon / OH / 10.1 mi. | 628 | 6,940 | 9.0 | $36,768 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44688 / Waynesburg / OH / 9.8 mi. | 589 | 1,299 | 45.3 | $33,384 | 5.8 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44644 / Malvern / OH / 12.8 mi. | 574 | 2,003 | 28.7 | $38,108 | 4.3 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
44685 / Uniontown / OH / 11.3 mi. | 542 | 8,682 | 6.2 | $59,693 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
44626 / East Sparta / OH / 7.8 mi. | 519 | 1,188 | 43.7 | $38,875 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
44643 / Magnolia / OH / 11.1 mi. | 514 | 1,265 | 40.6 | $38,438 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
44614 / Canal Fulton / OH / 12.5 mi. | 497 | 4,130 | 12.0 | $51,766 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44612 / Bolivar / OH / 12.5 mi. | 405 | 1,910 | 21.2 | $46,296 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44613 / Brewster / OH / 13.3 mi. | 197 | 852 | 23.1 | $37,434 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44622 / Dover / OH / 17.9 mi. | 159 | 7,104 | 2.2 | $39,349 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
44663 / New Philadelphia / OH / 20.7 mi. | 144 | 10,658 | 1.4 | $34,474 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
44670 / Robertsville / OH / 9.9 mi. | 135 | 71 | 190.1 | $45,417 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
44620 / Dellroy / OH / 16.8 mi. | 122 | 538 | 22.7 | $35,484 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | |
44669 / Paris / OH / 11.3 mi. | 119 | 560 | 21.3 | $47,292 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44666 / North Lawrence / OH / 13.7 mi. | 89 | 984 | 9.0 | $48,214 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
44672 / Sebring / OH / 20 mi. | 89 | 2,260 | 3.9 | $30,872 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44618 / Dalton / OH / 16.6 mi. | 87 | 2,163 | 4.0 | $45,814 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
44608 / Beach City / OH / 14.9 mi. | 85 | 984 | 8.6 | $37,802 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
43126 / Harrisburg / OH / 116.8 mi. | 84 | 103 | 81.6 | $44,375 | 5.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.4 | |
44625 / East Rochester / OH / 19 mi. | 84 | 560 | 15.0 | $38,068 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
44634 / Homeworth / OH / 17 mi. | 84 | 727 | 11.6 | $48,393 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
44319 / Akron / OH / 15.1 mi. | 71 | 9,130 | 0.8 | $46,475 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
44216 / Clinton / OH / 14.7 mi. | 70 | 3,299 | 2.1 | $54,195 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
44680 / Strasburg / OH / 16.3 mi. | 61 | 1,458 | 4.2 | $37,560 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44656 / Mineral City / OH / 14.2 mi. | 59 | 1,134 | 5.2 | $37,768 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44671 / Sandyville / OH / 10.7 mi. | 58 | 159 | 36.5 | $30,536 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
44312 / Akron / OH / 15.3 mi. | 53 | 13,217 | 0.4 | $37,758 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
44675 / Sherrodsville / OH / 21.3 mi. | 43 | 751 | 5.7 | $32,443 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44667 / Orrville / OH / 20.5 mi. | 40 | 5,026 | 0.8 | $37,597 | 7.3 | 1.1 | 4.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
44651 / Mechanicstown / OH / 25 mi. | 36 | 291 | 12.4 | $24,219 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
44609 / Beloit / OH / 21.7 mi. | 32 | 1,569 | 2.0 | $40,633 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44697 / Zoar / OH / 13.1 mi. | 31 | 89 | 34.8 | $51,250 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
44260 / Mogadore / OH / 16.5 mi. | 30 | 5,266 | 0.6 | $51,210 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
43903 / Amsterdam / OH / 30.6 mi. | 28 | 946 | 3.0 | $32,281 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
44427 / Kensington / OH / 22.5 mi. | 25 | 599 | 4.2 | $39,265 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
44689 / Wilmot / OH / 18.7 mi. | 25 | 240 | 10.4 | $36,000 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44411 / Deerfield / OH / 23.4 mi. | 15 | 972 | 1.5 | $46,920 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44691 / Wooster / OH / 31.8 mi. | 15 | 16,470 | 0.1 | $41,311 | 5.5 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
44201 / Atwater / OH / 18.8 mi. | 13 | 2,453 | 0.5 | $47,665 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
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