Herald and News, Klamath Falls... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

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at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Herald and News, Klamath Falls

Klamath Falls, Oregon

Owner: Pioneer Newspapers (Wash.)

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

Did not report

2001

Did not report

2000

Did not report

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

11.8

1994

7.1

1993

13.3

1992

15.0

1991

Did not report

1990

0.0

The latest year at peak is

1992

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Herald and News, Klamath Falls

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

16.7

N/A

2004

N/A

16.7

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, Pioneer Newspapers (Wash.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 26.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for Herald and News, Klamath Falls

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 16,532 ranks 569 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 Herald and News, Klamath Falls

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

9.2

7,372

Black

0.5

383

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

681

Native-American

3.5

2,844

Other non-white

0.2

126

Multi-racial

2.5

2,033

Non-white

16.7

13,439

White

83.3

66,915

Total

80,354

Home county: Klamath

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

7.8

4,961

Black

0.6

362

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

554

Native-American

3.8

2,443

Other non-white

0.2

Multi-racial

2.7

1,700

Non-white

15.9

10,116

White

84.1

53,659

Total

63,775

The home county of this newspaper is Klamath.

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

Herald and News, Klamath Falls

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

97603 / Klamath Falls / OR / 10.2 mi.

7,104

11,200

63.4

$34,858

13.5

6.8

0.6

2.8

0.7

97601 / Klamath Falls / OR / 0 mi.

4,870

8,769

55.5

$28,736

16.9

8.3

0.7

3.6

1.3

97630 / Lakeview / OR / 62.9 mi.

843

2,066

40.8

$31,176

12.1

6.8

0.0

2.2

1.1

97624 / Chiloquin / OR / 34.4 mi.

649

1,266

51.3

$29,359

26.8

4.2

0.1

18.2

0.5

96101 / Alturas / CA / 84.8 mi.

526

2,095

25.1

$27,942

16.8

9.5

0.3

3.2

0.8

96134 / Tulelake / CA / 41.4 mi.

407

934

43.6

$27,383

38.0

34.7

0.2

0.8

0.3

97623 / Bonanza / OR / 36.7 mi.

381

781

48.8

$31,168

12.8

7.7

0.5

1.1

0.5

97633 / Merrill / OR / 21.2 mi.

266

518

51.4

$27,000

31.8

26.4

0.3

1.0

0.4

97632 / Malin / OR / 25.6 mi.

245

399

61.4

$34,615

39.6

34.9

0.8

1.3

0.3

96023 / Dorris / CA / 27 mi.

229

461

49.7

$24,405

21.2

15.1

0.0

4.1

0.2

97627 / Keno / OR / 18.3 mi.

165

410

40.2

$32,031

12.6

3.3

0.3

5.1

0.7

96104 / Cedarville / CA / 111 mi.

135

374

36.1

$32,159

15.2

8.5

0.1

3.8

0.7

97639 / Sprague River / OR / 22.1 mi.

110

169

65.1

$26,328

14.4

3.8

0.0

7.1

0.3

97622 / Bly / OR / 41.8 mi.

108

207

52.2

$23,024

11.1

3.8

0.2

4.0

1.3

97621 / Beatty / OR / 35.1 mi.

163

58.3

$8,281

19.0

1.4

0.6

14.3

1.4

97731 / Chemult / OR / 55.6 mi.

194

49.0

$32,917

9.6

6.0

0.0

2.5

0.2

97636 / Paisley / OR / 69.6 mi.

172

53.5

$28,403

4.3

1.3

0.5

0.8

0.3

96006 / Adin / CA / 81.4 mi.

257

31.9

$32,250

9.0

5.7

0.0

1.2

0.2

97737 / Gilchrist / OR / 72.5 mi.

189

40.2

$24,816

5.7

2.7

0.5

0.2

0.0

96058 / Macdoel / CA / 40.3 mi.

297

19.5

$22,266

36.6

31.1

0.0

2.3

1.4

97635 / New Pine Creek / OR / 82.9 mi.

157

35.7

$22,500

3.5

1.2

0.0

1.7

0.0

97634 / Midland / OR / 8.5 mi.

217.4

$49,167

6.3

1.6

0.0

1.6

3.1

96116 / Likely / CA / 98.4 mi.

109

41.3

$14,722

18.7

17.1

0.0

0.8

0.4

96009 / Bieber / CA / 88.2 mi.

212

17.0

$28,611

20.6

15.2

0.2

2.1

0.2

97733 / Crescent / OR / 87.2 mi.

298

12.1

$29,844

4.9

1.6

0.1

1.1

0.4

97626 / Fort Klamath / OR / 32.3 mi.

77.8

$54,167

8.4

4.8

0.0

3.6

0.0

96054 / Lookout / CA / 80.3 mi.

152

17.8

$24,250

19.1

12.3

0.3

3.3

0.0

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