Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The News-Review, Roseburg | ||||||||||
Roseburg, Oregon | ||||||||||
Owner: Swift Newspapers (Nev.) | ||||||||||
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 | 4.8 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1994 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The News-Review, Roseburg | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 4.8 | 8.1 | 59 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 8.1 | 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, Swift Newspapers (Nev.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 50. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The News-Review, Roseburg | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 59. | 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 67 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 19,029 ranks 501 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 The News-Review, Roseburg | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.2 | 3,022 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 163 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 654 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.5 | 1,366 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 78 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.5 | 2,303 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.1 | 7,586 | ||||||||
White | 91.9 | 86,427 | ||||||||
Total | 94,013 | |||||||||
Home county: Douglas | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.3 | 3,283 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 165 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 684 | ||||||||
Native-American | 1.4 | 1,446 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 86 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.4 | 2,433 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.1 | 8,097 | ||||||||
White | 91.9 | 92,302 | ||||||||
Total | 100,399 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Douglas. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The News-Review, Roseburg | ||||||||||
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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97470 / Roseburg / OR / 0 mi. | 10,955 | 18,431 | 59.4 | $35,488 | 7.9 | 3.5 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.9 | |
97479 / Sutherlin / OR / 22.5 mi. | 1,689 | 3,384 | 49.9 | $30,253 | 8.2 | 3.9 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | |
97457 / Myrtle Creek / OR / 15 mi. | 1,673 | 3,772 | 44.4 | $33,333 | 8.5 | 2.8 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 0.7 | |
97496 / Winston / OR / 13.2 mi. | 1,165 | 2,610 | 44.6 | $32,808 | 6.6 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | |
97462 / Oakland / OR / 19.3 mi. | 614 | 1,524 | 40.3 | $33,621 | 8.2 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.4 | |
97443 / Glide / OR / 48.7 mi. | 446 | 841 | 53.0 | $40,913 | 7.8 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 0.4 | |
97417 / Canyonville / OR / 21.7 mi. | 419 | 721 | 58.1 | $29,022 | 10.5 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 2.9 | 0.9 | |
97469 / Riddle / OR / 20.7 mi. | 380 | 1,028 | 37.0 | $31,385 | 8.6 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 0.3 | |
97499 / Yoncalla / OR / 28 mi. | 207 | 794 | 26.1 | $28,676 | 6.9 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
97447 / Idleyld Park / OR / 30.8 mi. | 184 | 308 | 59.7 | $47,917 | 10.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 0.6 | |
97435 / Drain / OR / 37.4 mi. | 171 | 827 | 20.7 | $29,464 | 9.3 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 0.5 | |
97442 / Glendale / OR / 27.8 mi. | 165 | 811 | 20.3 | $29,541 | 13.4 | 7.0 | 0.1 | 2.2 | 0.9 | |
97486 / Umpqua / OR / 16.2 mi. | 151 | 269 | 56.1 | $42,596 | 7.6 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.5 | |
97416 / Camas Valley / OR / 21.8 mi. | 148 | 303 | 48.8 | $31,574 | 7.5 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 3.7 | 0.2 | |
97481 / Tenmile / OR / 8.3 mi. | 135 | 186 | 72.6 | $39,792 | 6.3 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | |
97436 / Elkton / OR / 32.8 mi. | 117 | 351 | 33.3 | $33,950 | 5.7 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
97410 / Azalea / OR / 30.7 mi. | 97 | 283 | 34.3 | $35,000 | 6.5 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 0.2 | |
97429 / Days Creek / OR / 25.9 mi. | 92 | 239 | 38.5 | $27,500 | 8.4 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0.5 | |
97484 / Tiller / OR / 40.9 mi. | 47 | 126 | 37.3 | $29,688 | 13.7 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 3.9 | 0.7 | |
97473 / Scottsburg / OR / 39.8 mi. | 24 | 167 | 14.4 | $28,906 | 4.7 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | |
97467 / Reedsport / OR / 47.7 mi. | 11 | 2,585 | 0.4 | $27,009 | 7.9 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0.5 | |
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