Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Johnson City Press | ||||||||||
Johnson City, Tennessee | ||||||||||
Owner: Sandusky Newspapers (Ohio) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Johnson City Press | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 5.1 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 5.2 | 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, Sandusky Newspapers (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 37. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Johnson City Press | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 123 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 29,513 ranks 347 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 Johnson City Press | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.2 | 2,375 | ||||||||
Black | 2.4 | 4,727 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 911 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 423 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 117 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,475 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.2 | 10,028 | ||||||||
White | 94.8 | 183,949 | ||||||||
Total | 193,977 | |||||||||
Home county: Washington | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 1,482 | ||||||||
Black | 3.8 | 4,058 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 794 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 238 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 88 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 960 | ||||||||
Non-white | 7.1 | 7,620 | ||||||||
White | 92.9 | 99,578 | ||||||||
Total | 107,198 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Washington. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Johnson City Press | ||||||||||
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 |
|
37601 / Johnson City / TN / 1.7 mi. | 7,198 | 14,468 | 49.8 | $30,197 | 8.3 | 1.5 | 4.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
37604 / Johnson City / TN / 3.5 mi. | 5,852 | 14,034 | 41.7 | $30,951 | 10.6 | 2.0 | 5.8 | 0.3 | 1.4 | |
37659 / Jonesborough / TN / 9.4 mi. | 3,694 | 8,808 | 41.9 | $36,067 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
37643 / Elizabethton / TN / 5.5 mi. | 2,899 | 14,017 | 20.7 | $27,176 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
37615 / Johnson City / TN / 7.6 mi. | 2,123 | 6,601 | 32.2 | $41,607 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
37650 / Erwin / TN / 13.9 mi. | 2,007 | 5,353 | 37.5 | $30,043 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37683 / Mountain City / TN / 28.7 mi. | 935 | 4,710 | 19.9 | $22,344 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
37692 / Unicoi / TN / 10.4 mi. | 639 | 1,827 | 35.0 | $29,245 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
37681 / Limestone / TN / 15.7 mi. | 490 | 2,301 | 21.3 | $31,304 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
37686 / Piney Flats / TN / 6.6 mi. | 488 | 2,585 | 18.9 | $36,157 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
37690 / Telford / TN / 13.4 mi. | 455 | 1,159 | 39.3 | $31,000 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37743 / Tusculum College / TN / 27.8 mi. | 391 | 9,831 | 4.0 | $29,877 | 5.3 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
37658 / Hampton / TN / 9.9 mi. | 339 | 1,820 | 18.6 | $25,801 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
37618 / Bluff City / TN / 9.4 mi. | 244 | 4,904 | 5.0 | $33,712 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
37687 / Roan Mountain / TN / 16.7 mi. | 209 | 2,068 | 10.1 | $21,347 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
37663 / Kingsprt / TN / 10.8 mi. | 178 | 5,613 | 3.2 | $46,601 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
28705 / Bakersville / NC / 26.2 mi. | 163 | 2,366 | 6.9 | $28,269 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37640 / Butler / TN / 5.9 mi. | 162 | 1,546 | 10.5 | $22,357 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37641 / Chucky / TN / 19.2 mi. | 161 | 2,824 | 5.7 | $32,441 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37620 / Bristol / TN / 16.3 mi. | 158 | 16,389 | 1.0 | $30,912 | 4.3 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
37694 / Watauga / TN / 5.3 mi. | 144 | 572 | 25.2 | $30,677 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
37745 / Greeneville / TN / 27 mi. | 117 | 7,175 | 1.6 | $28,917 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
37617 / Blountville / TN / 12.2 mi. | 67 | 5,087 | 1.3 | $39,150 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
37657 / Flag Pond / TN / 23.6 mi. | 67 | 381 | 17.6 | $30,735 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
37688 / Shady Valley / TN / 26.6 mi. | 67 | 477 | 14.0 | $22,659 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
37656 / Fall Branch / TN / 14.6 mi. | 34 | 1,513 | 2.2 | $39,688 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
37680 / Laurel Bloomery / TN / 34.1 mi. | 32 | 220 | 14.5 | $36,290 | 4.5 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
28622 / Whaley / NC / 22.5 mi. | 31 | 1,012 | 3.1 | $22,468 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
37691 / Trade / TN / 30 mi. | 22 | 366 | 6.0 | $29,361 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
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