Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Index-Journal, Greenwood | ||||||||||
Greenwood, South Carolina | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 14.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2001 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 16.7 | |||||||||
1997 | 16.7 | |||||||||
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 | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Index-Journal, Greenwood | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 36.6 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 36.6 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Index-Journal, Greenwood | ||||||||||
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 Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat, Oklahoma, with a 43.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 36.9 percent non-white. Its index is 118. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,132 ranks 642 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 Index-Journal, Greenwood | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.2 | 2,202 | ||||||||
Black | 33.1 | 33,915 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 560 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 133 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 74 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 555 | ||||||||
Non-white | 36.6 | 37,439 | ||||||||
White | 63.4 | 64,978 | ||||||||
Total | 102,417 | |||||||||
Home county: Greenwood | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.9 | 1,902 | ||||||||
Black | 31.5 | 20,893 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 471 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 95 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 40 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 381 | ||||||||
Non-white | 35.9 | 23,782 | ||||||||
White | 64.1 | 42,489 | ||||||||
Total | 66,271 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Greenwood. | ||||||||||
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 Index-Journal, Greenwood | ||||||||||
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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29646 / Greenwood / SC / 0.4 mi. | 4,603 | 10,755 | 42.8 | $31,135 | 48.6 | 5.1 | 42.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
29649 / Greenwood / SC / 2 mi. | 3,885 | 9,027 | 43.0 | $38,409 | 26.4 | 1.8 | 22.3 | 0.2 | 1.6 | |
29620 / Abbeville / SC / 12 mi. | 1,511 | 5,314 | 28.4 | $32,584 | 36.2 | 0.6 | 34.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
29666 / Ninety Six / SC / 7.5 mi. | 1,253 | 2,577 | 48.6 | $36,208 | 20.9 | 0.5 | 19.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
29835 / Willington / SC / 19.3 mi. | 722 | 2,508 | 28.8 | $32,151 | 56.6 | 0.7 | 54.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
29653 / Hodges / SC / 7.1 mi. | 529 | 1,730 | 30.6 | $36,500 | 32.6 | 0.5 | 31.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
29692 / Ware Shoals / SC / 13.8 mi. | 515 | 2,027 | 25.4 | $28,145 | 17.0 | 0.9 | 15.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
29138 / Saluda / SC / 23.8 mi. | 254 | 3,607 | 7.0 | $35,780 | 44.6 | 10.6 | 33.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
29384 / Waterloo / SC / 10.1 mi. | 194 | 1,789 | 10.8 | $33,345 | 16.9 | 0.9 | 15.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
29628 / Calhoun Falls / SC / 23.9 mi. | 145 | 1,305 | 11.1 | $27,843 | 48.8 | 1.8 | 45.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
29819 / Promised Land / SC / 6.6 mi. | 143 | 501 | 28.5 | $40,403 | 36.7 | 0.9 | 34.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
29332 / Cross Hill / SC / 11 mi. | 109 | 1,023 | 10.7 | $34,961 | 32.9 | 0.4 | 31.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
29638 / Shoals Junction / SC / 13.4 mi. | 79 | 1,217 | 6.5 | $35,294 | 23.5 | 0.8 | 22.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
29845 / Plum Branch / SC / 24.4 mi. | 58 | 478 | 12.1 | $21,838 | 66.2 | 1.2 | 64.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
29848 / Troy / SC / 15.9 mi. | 58 | 360 | 16.1 | $35,500 | 33.4 | 0.0 | 32.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
29037 / Chappells / SC / 17.2 mi. | 42 | 354 | 11.9 | $38,438 | 21.3 | 1.0 | 20.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
29639 / Due West / SC / 15.3 mi. | 40 | 459 | 8.7 | $35,197 | 26.8 | 1.5 | 23.7 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
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