Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Urbana Citizen | ||||||||||
Urbana, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Brown Publishing (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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Urbana Citizen | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 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, Brown Publishing (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 52. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Urbana Citizen | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Eagle Times, Claremont, New Hampshire, with a 4.8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.6 percent non-white. Its index is 188. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 6,084 ranks 1050 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 Urbana Citizen | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 269 | ||||||||
Black | 2.4 | 889 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 98 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 107 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 39 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 398 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.8 | 1,800 | ||||||||
White | 95.2 | 35,932 | ||||||||
Total | 37,732 | |||||||||
Home county: Champaign | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 269 | ||||||||
Black | 2.3 | 891 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 104 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 113 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 39 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 395 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.7 | 1,811 | ||||||||
White | 95.3 | 37,079 | ||||||||
Total | 38,890 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Champaign. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Urbana Citizen | ||||||||||
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 |
|
43078 / Urbana / OH / 0 mi. | 4,108 | 8,332 | 49.3 | $40,954 | 6.7 | 0.9 | 3.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
43072 / Saint Paris / OH / 9.5 mi. | 627 | 2,126 | 29.5 | $43,750 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
43044 / Mechanicsburg / OH / 12 mi. | 551 | 2,010 | 27.4 | $43,393 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43060 / North Lewisburg / OH / 12.8 mi. | 264 | 952 | 27.7 | $50,396 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43009 / Cable / OH / 8 mi. | 212 | 617 | 34.4 | $53,105 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
43357 / West Liberty / OH / 9.8 mi. | 148 | 1,589 | 9.3 | $47,995 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
43084 / Woodstock / OH / 12.4 mi. | 99 | 290 | 34.1 | $48,919 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
43318 / De Graff / OH / 15.2 mi. | 36 | 1,270 | 2.8 | $47,331 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
45317 / Conover / OH / 13.6 mi. | 35 | 388 | 9.0 | $41,156 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
45389 / Christiansburg / OH / 13.7 mi. | 32 | 213 | 15.0 | $32,500 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
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