Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Grants Pass Daily Courier | ||||||||||
Grants Pass, Oregon | ||||||||||
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 | 3.8 | |||||||||
2004 | 3.7 | |||||||||
2003 | 3.8 | |||||||||
2002 | 3.7 | |||||||||
2001 | 3.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 3.7 | |||||||||
1999 | 4.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 4.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 4.2 | |||||||||
1995 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1994 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1993 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1992 | 4.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 3.9 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Grants Pass Daily Courier | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 3.8 | 8.6 | 44 | |||||||
2004 | 3.7 | 8.6 | 43 | |||||||
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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Grants Pass Daily Courier | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 44. | 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 99 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 16,403 ranks 574 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 Grants Pass Daily Courier | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.3 | 3,645 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 206 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 600 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.1 | 973 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 65 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.2 | 1,869 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.6 | 7,358 | ||||||||
White | 91.4 | 78,188 | ||||||||
Total | 85,546 | |||||||||
Home county: Josephine | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.3 | 3,229 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 192 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 538 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.1 | 844 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 52 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.2 | 1,638 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.6 | 6,493 | ||||||||
White | 91.4 | 69,233 | ||||||||
Total | 75,726 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Josephine. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Grants Pass Daily Courier | ||||||||||
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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97526 / Grants Pass / OR / 0 mi. | 7,260 | 13,131 | 55.3 | $32,260 | 9.1 | 4.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.9 | |
97527 / Grants Pass / OR / 21 mi. | 5,658 | 11,876 | 47.6 | $31,901 | 7.7 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | |
97537 / Rogue River / OR / 29.6 mi. | 812 | 2,851 | 28.5 | $33,166 | 7.5 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.6 | |
97523 / Cave Junction / OR / 36 mi. | 600 | 2,543 | 23.6 | $21,539 | 10.6 | 4.4 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 0.8 | |
97532 / Merlin / OR / 13.5 mi. | 540 | 859 | 62.9 | $39,441 | 7.6 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 0.8 | |
97544 / Williams / OR / 38.2 mi. | 258 | 858 | 30.1 | $34,932 | 6.2 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
97442 / Glendale / OR / 16.2 mi. | 236 | 811 | 29.1 | $29,541 | 13.4 | 7.0 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 0.9 | |
97538 / Selma / OR / 18 mi. | 227 | 781 | 29.1 | $28,363 | 9.9 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 0.6 | |
97497 / Wolf Creek / OR / 16.1 mi. | 168 | 656 | 25.6 | $28,250 | 8.1 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 0.4 | |
97525 / Gold Hill / OR / 34.9 mi. | 134 | 2,204 | 6.1 | $33,397 | 7.5 | 3.9 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | |
97543 / Wilderville / OR / 16.1 mi. | 122 | 32 | 381.3 | $27,344 | 14.5 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
97504 / Medford / OR / 50.8 mi. | 49 | 16,692 | 0.3 | $43,891 | 9.9 | 5.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.6 | |
97410 / Azalea / OR / 31.8 mi. | 43 | 283 | 15.2 | $35,000 | 6.5 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 0.2 | |
97534 / O Brien / OR / 39.7 mi. | 43 | 232 | 18.5 | $24,148 | 7.9 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | |
97530 / Jacksonville / OR / 46.2 mi. | 37 | 2,691 | 1.4 | $41,520 | 6.7 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
97531 / Kerby / OR / 27.5 mi. | 34 | 170 | 20.0 | $14,046 | 15.8 | 8.8 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0.5 | |
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