Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Albany Democrat-Herald | ||||||||||
Albany, Oregon | ||||||||||
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1996 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1995 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1994 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1992 | 6.3 | |||||||||
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 Albany Democrat-Herald | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Albany Democrat-Herald | ||||||||||
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 17,702 ranks 534 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 Albany Democrat-Herald | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.6 | 4,878 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 276 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 984 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.1 | 1,161 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 107 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.0 | 2,055 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.0 | 9,461 | ||||||||
White | 91.0 | 95,566 | ||||||||
Total | 105,027 | |||||||||
Home county: Linn | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.4 | 4,514 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 285 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 914 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.2 | 1,192 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 92 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.0 | 2,060 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.8 | 9,057 | ||||||||
White | 91.2 | 94,012 | ||||||||
Total | 103,069 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Linn. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Albany Democrat-Herald | ||||||||||
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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97321 / Albany / OR / 0 mi. | 4,509 | 19,170 | 23.5 | $40,723 | 10.2 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.3 | |
97355 / Lebanon / OR / 14.6 mi. | 4,153 | 9,973 | 41.6 | $35,935 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | |
97386 / Sweet Home / OR / 25.8 mi. | 1,668 | 4,835 | 34.5 | $33,302 | 7.2 | 2.8 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 0.6 | |
97374 / Scio / OR / 18.3 mi. | 512 | 1,796 | 28.5 | $47,455 | 7.1 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 0.3 | |
97352 / Jefferson / OR / 9.1 mi. | 368 | 1,682 | 21.9 | $45,784 | 17.9 | 14.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.7 | |
97327 / Brownsville / OR / 21.1 mi. | 349 | 942 | 37.0 | $41,458 | 6.4 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.2 | |
97389 / Tangent / OR / 7 mi. | 270 | 524 | 51.5 | $44,116 | 5.5 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
97348 / Halsey / OR / 17.5 mi. | 206 | 489 | 42.1 | $41,771 | 9.3 | 4.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.7 | |
97330 / Corvallis / OR / 10.5 mi. | 161 | 16,596 | 1.0 | $40,251 | 14.9 | 4.9 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 6.0 | |
97377 / Shedd / OR / 11.8 mi. | 133 | 336 | 39.6 | $43,750 | 5.0 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |
97333 / Corvallis / OR / 16.8 mi. | 108 | 7,054 | 1.5 | $35,512 | 15.0 | 5.7 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 5.1 | |
97345 / Foster / OR / 29.1 mi. | 76 | 237 | 32.1 | $36,597 | 6.0 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
97446 / Harrisburg / OR / 24.6 mi. | 61 | 1,488 | 4.1 | $41,155 | 8.8 | 5.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | |
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