Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
East Oregonian, Pendleton | ||||||||||
Pendleton, Oregon | ||||||||||
Owner: East Oregonian Publishing (Ore.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 12.5 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1997 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for East Oregonian, Pendleton | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 22.6 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 22.5 | 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, East Oregonian Publishing (Ore.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 107. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for East Oregonian, Pendleton | ||||||||||
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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 10,145 ranks 790 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 East Oregonian, Pendleton | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 16.0 | 11,420 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 529 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 569 | ||||||||
Native-American | 3.3 | 2,347 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 137 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 1,078 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.5 | 16,080 | ||||||||
White | 77.6 | 55,537 | ||||||||
Total | 71,617 | |||||||||
Home county: Umatilla | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 16.1 | 11,366 | ||||||||
Black | 0.8 | 535 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 569 | ||||||||
Native-American | 3.2 | 2,258 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 118 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 1,032 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.5 | 15,878 | ||||||||
White | 77.5 | 54,670 | ||||||||
Total | 70,548 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Umatilla. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
East Oregonian, Pendleton | ||||||||||
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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97801 / Pendleton / OR / 0 mi. | 4,564 | 7,885 | 57.9 | $37,985 | 16.7 | 5.0 | 1.2 | 7.6 | 0.9 | |
97838 / Hermiston / OR / 24.6 mi. | 2,374 | 7,776 | 30.5 | $38,187 | 25.9 | 21.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.2 | |
97882 / Umatilla / OR / 27.7 mi. | 391 | 1,761 | 22.2 | $34,886 | 36.5 | 33.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.4 | |
97836 / Heppner / OR / 39.7 mi. | 360 | 868 | 41.5 | $36,111 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
97868 / Pilot Rock / OR / 11.8 mi. | 348 | 796 | 43.7 | $36,094 | 8.7 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 4.6 | 0.2 | |
97862 / Milton-Freewater / OR / 25.2 mi. | 268 | 4,073 | 6.6 | $30,690 | 25.9 | 23.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
97813 / Athena / OR / 16.8 mi. | 234 | 508 | 46.1 | $37,955 | 9.8 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 0.3 | |
97844 / Irrigon / OR / 34.9 mi. | 198 | 1,263 | 15.7 | $36,600 | 28.1 | 24.1 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | |
97818 / Boardman / OR / 41.6 mi. | 194 | 1,197 | 16.2 | $38,169 | 47.6 | 43.2 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 0.6 | |
97875 / Stanfield / OR / 20.5 mi. | 194 | 901 | 21.5 | $36,132 | 29.9 | 25.4 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.5 | |
97826 / Echo / OR / 18.5 mi. | 171 | 397 | 43.1 | $35,789 | 12.2 | 9.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
97843 / Ione / OR / 47.5 mi. | 119 | 261 | 45.6 | $42,417 | 5.5 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
97810 / Adams / OR / 12.4 mi. | 113 | 274 | 41.2 | $42,250 | 23.4 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 19.0 | 1.0 | |
97886 / Weston / OR / 19.2 mi. | 111 | 466 | 23.8 | $36,422 | 15.5 | 10.7 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 0.2 | |
97823 / Condon / OR / 69 mi. | 92 | 482 | 19.1 | $32,125 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
97850 / La Grande / OR / 39.1 mi. | 79 | 6,622 | 1.2 | $33,621 | 7.9 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.8 | |
97812 / Arlington / OR / 62.7 mi. | 66 | 337 | 19.6 | $35,729 | 5.1 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | |
97835 / Helix / OR / 15.9 mi. | 30 | 126 | 23.8 | $43,750 | 6.4 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.3 | |
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