Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Star-Beacon, Ashtabula | ||||||||||
Ashtabula, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 3.3 | |||||||||
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 | 1995 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Star-Beacon, Ashtabula | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 6.4 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 6.4 | N/A | |||||||
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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Star-Beacon, Ashtabula | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 18,747 ranks 507 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 Star-Beacon, Ashtabula | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.0 | 2,378 | ||||||||
Black | 2.8 | 3,253 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 373 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 185 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 62 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,266 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.4 | 7,517 | ||||||||
White | 93.6 | 109,497 | ||||||||
Total | 117,014 | |||||||||
Home county: Ashtabula | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.2 | 2,292 | ||||||||
Black | 3.1 | 3,165 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 355 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 177 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 59 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,196 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.1 | 7,244 | ||||||||
White | 93.0 | 95,484 | ||||||||
Total | 102,728 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Ashtabula. | ||||||||||
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 Star-Beacon, Ashtabula | ||||||||||
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 |
|
44004 / Ashtabula / OH / 0 mi. | 7,943 | 14,444 | 55.0 | $32,068 | 12.5 | 3.7 | 6.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
44030 / Conneaut / OH / 11.1 mi. | 2,985 | 6,398 | 46.7 | $33,373 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
44041 / Geneva / OH / 9.9 mi. | 2,236 | 6,090 | 36.7 | $36,371 | 5.9 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44047 / Jefferson / OH / 9.5 mi. | 1,819 | 3,449 | 52.7 | $41,855 | 4.2 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44003 / Andover / OH / 18.7 mi. | 640 | 1,662 | 38.5 | $30,605 | 3.6 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44048 / Kingsville / OH / 7.6 mi. | 518 | 887 | 58.4 | $38,750 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44010 / Austinburg / OH / 7.2 mi. | 449 | 648 | 69.3 | $46,490 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44062 / Middlefield / OH / 29.5 mi. | 431 | 3,865 | 11.2 | $39,288 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44057 / Madison / OH / 14.3 mi. | 423 | 7,013 | 6.0 | $45,971 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44084 / Rock Creek / OH / 13.5 mi. | 405 | 1,235 | 32.8 | $46,932 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44076 / Orwell / OH / 22.4 mi. | 385 | 1,614 | 23.9 | $38,958 | 4.7 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
44085 / Rome / OH / 17.5 mi. | 265 | 1,047 | 25.3 | $44,514 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
44082 / Pierpont / OH / 12.9 mi. | 235 | 495 | 47.5 | $36,071 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
44032 / Dorset / OH / 14.4 mi. | 191 | 518 | 36.9 | $37,281 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44093 / Williamsfield / OH / 23.6 mi. | 166 | 544 | 30.5 | $30,417 | 2.8 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
44024 / Chardon / OH / 28.1 mi. | 154 | 8,273 | 1.9 | $56,160 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
44099 / Windsor / OH / 22.5 mi. | 102 | 470 | 21.7 | $40,586 | 6.4 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
44021 / Burton / OH / 34.4 mi. | 71 | 2,304 | 3.1 | $51,486 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
44086 / Thompson / OH / 18.3 mi. | 44 | 830 | 5.3 | $51,076 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44081 / Perry / OH / 19.1 mi. | 42 | 2,275 | 1.8 | $53,091 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
16443 / West Springfield / PA / 17.2 mi. | 34 | 544 | 6.3 | $39,866 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
44064 / Montville / OH / 21.6 mi. | 34 | 587 | 5.8 | $52,134 | 2.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
44046 / Huntsburg / OH / 25.4 mi. | 26 | 628 | 4.1 | $58,810 | 3.7 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
16401 / Albion / PA / 20 mi. | 24 | 1,702 | 1.4 | $34,200 | 20.8 | 3.7 | 16.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
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