Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Call, Woonsocket | ||||||||||
Woonsocket, Rhode Island | ||||||||||
Owner: Journal Register (N.J.) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 5.0 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2003 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Call, Woonsocket | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 10.6 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 10.6 | 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, Journal Register (N.J.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Call, Woonsocket | ||||||||||
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 11,984 ranks 709 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 Call, Woonsocket | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.6 | 4,572 | ||||||||
Black | 2.0 | 2,007 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.1 | 2,074 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 178 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 140 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 1,470 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.6 | 10,441 | ||||||||
White | 89.5 | 88,556 | ||||||||
Total | 98,997 | |||||||||
Home county: Providence | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 13.4 | 83,232 | ||||||||
Black | 5.8 | 36,078 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.9 | 18,022 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 2,377 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 1.3 | 7,790 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.5 | 15,481 | ||||||||
Non-white | 26.2 | 162,980 | ||||||||
White | 73.8 | 458,622 | ||||||||
Total | 621,602 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Providence. | ||||||||||
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 Call, Woonsocket | ||||||||||
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 |
|
02895 / Woonsocket / RI / 0 mi. | 6,905 | 17,750 | 38.9 | $30,819 | 20.2 | 9.3 | 3.9 | 0.2 | 4.0 | |
02864 / Cumberland / RI / 4.3 mi. | 1,007 | 12,198 | 8.3 | $54,656 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
01504 / Blackstone / MA / 3.8 mi. | 953 | 3,235 | 29.5 | $55,163 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
02896 / North Smithfield / RI / 4.1 mi. | 912 | 3,869 | 23.6 | $57,615 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
02019 / Bellingham / MA / 5 mi. | 804 | 5,557 | 14.5 | $64,496 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | |
02859 / Pascoag / RI / 13.2 mi. | 533 | 2,406 | 22.2 | $50,462 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
02038 / Franklin / MA / 6.7 mi. | 450 | 10,152 | 4.4 | $71,174 | 4.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.7 | |
02830 / Harrisville / RI / 8.6 mi. | 358 | 2,578 | 13.9 | $54,117 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
01529 / Millville / MA / 4.8 mi. | 283 | 923 | 30.7 | $57,000 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
02839 / Mapleville / RI / 9.1 mi. | 255 | 422 | 60.4 | $57,794 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
01569 / Uxbridge / MA / 8.5 mi. | 254 | 3,959 | 6.4 | $62,231 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
02838 / Manville / RI / 3.1 mi. | 229 | 1,378 | 16.6 | $37,192 | 7.2 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
02814 / Chepachet / RI / 13.5 mi. | 167 | 2,740 | 6.1 | $56,577 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
02865 / Lincoln / RI / 6.8 mi. | 154 | 6,865 | 2.2 | $52,455 | 5.3 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.9 | |
02828 / Greenville / RI / 9.6 mi. | 128 | 2,788 | 4.6 | $55,820 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
02917 / Smithfield / RI / 7.2 mi. | 42 | 4,413 | 1.0 | $55,463 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | |
02093 / Wrentham / MA / 7.4 mi. | 36 | 3,402 | 1.1 | $78,043 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
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