Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Review, Alliance | ||||||||||
Alliance, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Dix Communications (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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2002 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Review, Alliance | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 8.4 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 8.4 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Dix Communications (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 49. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Review, Alliance | ||||||||||
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 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 11,946 ranks 710 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 Review, Alliance | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 411 | ||||||||
Black | 5.7 | 2,956 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 266 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 61 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 60 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 586 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.4 | 4,340 | ||||||||
White | 91.6 | 47,152 | ||||||||
Total | 51,492 | |||||||||
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 Review, Alliance | ||||||||||
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 |
|
44601 / Mount Union / OH / 0 mi. | 7,806 | 14,056 | 55.5 | $34,051 | 11.1 | 0.9 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
44672 / Sebring / OH / 5.3 mi. | 1,138 | 2,260 | 50.4 | $30,872 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44609 / Westville Lake / OH / 7.1 mi. | 668 | 1,569 | 42.6 | $40,633 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44657 / Pekin / OH / 10.7 mi. | 336 | 3,944 | 8.5 | $36,660 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44634 / Homeworth / OH / 7 mi. | 292 | 727 | 40.2 | $48,393 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
44641 / Louisville / OH / 7.6 mi. | 250 | 7,229 | 3.5 | $45,641 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44460 / Salem / OH / 13 mi. | 237 | 10,688 | 2.2 | $36,726 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44201 / Atwater / OH / 7.6 mi. | 161 | 2,453 | 6.6 | $47,665 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
44449 / North Benton / OH / 7.3 mi. | 142 | 511 | 27.8 | $42,355 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
44632 / Hartville / OH / 9.6 mi. | 75 | 3,339 | 2.2 | $51,215 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
44411 / Yale / OH / 8.2 mi. | 74 | 972 | 7.6 | $46,920 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
44669 / Paris / OH / 8.3 mi. | 65 | 560 | 11.6 | $47,292 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44619 / Damascus / OH / 8.7 mi. | 48 | 12 | 400.0 | $24,792 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
44640 / Limaville / OH / 4.2 mi. | 31 | 38 | 81.6 | $35,000 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
44625 / New Alexander / OH / 11.7 mi. | 26 | 560 | 4.6 | $38,068 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
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Time | 5/21/05 8:10 PM | |||||||||
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