Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Citizen Tribune, Morristown | ||||||||||
Morristown, Tennessee | ||||||||||
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 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 11.8 | |||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Citizen Tribune, Morristown | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 11.1 | 7.2 | 154 | |||||||
2004 | 11.8 | 7.3 | 161 | |||||||
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 Citizen Tribune, Morristown | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 154. | 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 26 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 18,336 ranks 520 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 Citizen Tribune, Morristown | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.3 | 4,064 | ||||||||
Black | 2.7 | 3,343 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 484 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 238 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 122 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 901 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.3 | 9,152 | ||||||||
White | 92.7 | 115,832 | ||||||||
Total | 124,984 | |||||||||
Home county: Hamblen | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.7 | 3,299 | ||||||||
Black | 4.1 | 2,364 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 348 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 106 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 73 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 477 | ||||||||
Non-white | 11.5 | 6,667 | ||||||||
White | 88.5 | 51,461 | ||||||||
Total | 58,128 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Hamblen. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Citizen Tribune, Morristown | ||||||||||
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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37814 / Morristown / TN / 0 mi. | 5,876 | 12,245 | 48.0 | $32,228 | 13.7 | 7.0 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
37813 / Morristown / TN / 3 mi. | 3,337 | 6,695 | 49.8 | $29,941 | 12.6 | 6.2 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
37877 / Talbott / TN / 6.5 mi. | 1,101 | 3,118 | 35.3 | $38,304 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
37760 / Jefferson City / TN / 11.6 mi. | 1,039 | 4,712 | 22.1 | $31,292 | 8.3 | 2.0 | 4.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
37708 / Tate Springs / TN / 7.5 mi. | 866 | 2,573 | 33.7 | $29,655 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37860 / Russellville / TN / 6.3 mi. | 754 | 1,268 | 59.5 | $37,310 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
37890 / White Pine / TN / 7.7 mi. | 661 | 2,330 | 28.4 | $32,153 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
37861 / Rutledge / TN / 11.3 mi. | 598 | 2,889 | 20.7 | $27,163 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
37869 / Sneedville / TN / 20.7 mi. | 540 | 2,010 | 26.9 | $20,264 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
37725 / Dandridge / TN / 14.3 mi. | 507 | 5,029 | 10.1 | $34,631 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
37891 / Whitesburg / TN / 9.2 mi. | 459 | 1,290 | 35.6 | $31,885 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
37821 / Newport / TN / 17.9 mi. | 375 | 8,969 | 4.2 | $25,801 | 5.2 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
37711 / Bulls Gap / TN / 11.2 mi. | 345 | 1,755 | 19.7 | $27,287 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
37857 / Rogersville / TN / 19.7 mi. | 342 | 8,339 | 4.1 | $29,568 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37811 / Mooresburg / TN / 11.3 mi. | 305 | 1,116 | 27.3 | $24,246 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
37820 / New Market / TN / 16.1 mi. | 264 | 2,474 | 10.7 | $34,924 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
37765 / Kyles Ford / TN / 26 mi. | 213 | 224 | 95.1 | $13,977 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
37879 / Tazewell / TN / 20.1 mi. | 209 | 3,967 | 5.3 | $23,869 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
37713 / Bybee / TN / 12.4 mi. | 185 | 600 | 30.8 | $25,625 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
37881 / Treadway / TN / 11.5 mi. | 148 | 791 | 18.7 | $24,773 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
37810 / Mohawk / TN / 11.6 mi. | 123 | 720 | 17.1 | $28,512 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
37888 / Washburn / TN / 16 mi. | 90 | 995 | 9.0 | $26,300 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
37871 / Strawberry Plains / TN / 24.4 mi. | 84 | 3,276 | 2.6 | $35,378 | 3.5 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
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