El Paso Times... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

El Paso Times

El Paso, Texas

Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)

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

60.0

2004

61.1

2003

61.4

2002

54.3

2001

55.7

2000

58.7

1999

55.7

1998

58.0

1997

64.4

1996

62.9

1995

62.1

1994

48.3

1993

34.4

1992

29.5

1991

31.7

1990

33.3

The latest year at peak is

1997

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for El Paso Times

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

60.0

81.4

2004

61.1

81.4

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, Gannett Co. (Va.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for El Paso Times

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 74.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 23 out of 90

newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 72,137 ranks 137 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 El Paso Times

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

76.7

540,782

Black

2.7

19,034

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.0

6,742

Native-American

0.3

2,326

Other non-white

0.1

515

Multi-racial

0.7

4,923

Non-white

81.4

574,322

White

18.6

131,025

Total

705,347

Home county: El Paso

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

78.2

531,654

Black

2.8

18,671

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.0

6,588

Native-American

0.3

2,057

Other non-white

0.1

497

Multi-racial

0.7

4,620

Non-white

83.0

564,087

White

17.0

115,535

Total

679,622

The home county of this newspaper is El Paso.

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

El Paso Times

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

79912 / El Paso / TX / 6.2 mi.

9,126

24,316

37.5

$48,627

60.8

54.9

1.9

0.2

2.7

79936 / El Paso / TX / 39.9 mi.

8,221

26,900

30.6

$42,857

85.6

81.4

2.2

0.2

1.0

79925 / El Paso / TX / 6.7 mi.

7,801

15,263

51.1

$36,301

74.5

68.7

3.5

0.3

1.2

79924 / El Paso / TX / 9.9 mi.

6,450

18,877

34.2

$33,367

71.7

59.2

8.0

0.3

2.3

79915 / El Paso / TX / 6.4 mi.

4,125

12,776

32.3

$23,400

95.9

93.7

1.5

0.2

79907 / El Paso / TX / 9.9 mi.

3,523

15,273

23.1

$26,447

96.0

94.5

0.4

0.8

0.1

79902 / El Paso / TX / 1.9 mi.

3,228

8,676

37.2

$23,018

79.8

76.1

1.3

0.2

1.5

79904 / El Paso / TX / 6.4 mi.

2,728

10,805

25.2

$27,111

78.8

69.3

6.3

0.4

1.3

79930 / El Paso / TX / 3.6 mi.

2,358

9,366

25.2

$23,833

90.0

87.3

1.6

0.2

0.4

79935 / El Paso / TX / 8.8 mi.

2,219

6,647

33.4

$38,112

78.2

72.8

3.4

0.2

0.9

79932 / El Paso / TX / 10.9 mi.

2,204

5,191

42.5

$38,694

70.8

68.7

0.9

0.3

0.4

79903 / El Paso / TX / 2.9 mi.

2,093

6,571

31.9

$22,921

91.5

89.7

1.1

0.2

79905 / El Paso / TX / 3.3 mi.

1,972

8,512

23.2

$17,723

97.1

96.2

0.5

0.2

0.1

79901 / El Paso / TX / 0 mi.

1,539

4,514

34.1

$9,783

96.4

95.5

0.5

0.1

79927 / El Paso / TX / 14.5 mi.

1,515

13,548

11.2

$26,650

93.6

92.4

0.5

0.4

0.1

79922 / El Paso / TX / 6.1 mi.

1,391

2,798

49.7

$61,599

56.4

53.9

0.6

0.2

0.9

88310 / Alamogordo / NM / 73.7 mi.

1,363

15,767

8.6

$31,574

40.4

30.8

4.8

0.8

1.5

79934 / El Paso / TX / 14.5 mi.

830

2,999

27.7

$45,990

67.4

46.7

14.2

0.4

3.1

88220 / Carlsbad / NM / 126.1 mi.

618

12,618

4.9

$32,829

39.3

35.3

1.6

0.7

0.6

79938 / El Paso / TX / 17.4 mi.

615

4,121

14.9

$28,829

87.9

84.2

2.7

0.3

88001 / Las Cruces / NM / 63 mi.

556

13,570

4.1

$23,114

68.9

61.0

2.4

1.4

88021 / Anthony / NM / 20.3 mi.

553

7,417

7.5

$22,767

84.6

83.1

0.4

0.3

0.2

88005 / Las Cruces / NM / 39.8 mi.

530

17,007

3.1

$35,914

57.0

53.5

1.0

0.7

0.5

88008 / Santa Teresa / NM / 13.6 mi.

487

1,723

28.3

$38,571

75.5

73.6

0.7

0.4

0.3

88345 / Ruidoso / NM / 123 mi.

475

4,210

11.3

$38,882

21.9

18.3

0.3

1.9

0.3

79835 / Canutillo / TX / 12.7 mi.

419

2,833

14.8

$21,689

93.1

92.5

0.3

0.1

88011 / Las Cruces / NM / 36.2 mi.

350

7,312

4.8

$42,237

39.4

33.5

1.5

0.6

2.0

79838 / Fabens / TX / 26 mi.

314

2,251

13.9

$19,010

95.9

95.4

0.2

0.1

0.0

88030 / Deming / NM / 79.9 mi.

311

8,737

3.6

$21,266

58.7

56.0

0.8

0.6

0.3

88061 / Silver City / NM / 136.4 mi.

304

8,043

3.8

$30,935

46.0

43.0

0.5

0.7

0.4

79821 / Anthony / TX / 17 mi.

303

1,390

21.8

$26,653

88.7

85.5

2.3

0.5

0.1

79849 / San Elizario / TX / 16.5 mi.

282

2,599

10.9

$20,100

98.5

97.9

0.1

0.5

0.0

79836 / Clint / TX / 27.7 mi.

275

1,558

17.7

$28,676

89.2

88.5

0.2

0.0

79906 / El Paso / TX / 5.5 mi.

230

1,224

18.8

$33,197

48.9

19.7

23.3

1.0

2.7

79855 / Van Horn / TX / 108.7 mi.

208

990

21.0

$24,974

77.2

74.3

0.6

0.4

0.5

88063 / Sunland Park / NM / 7 mi.

175

2,593

6.7

$20,139

98.5

97.9

0.1

0.2

0.1

88045 / Lordsburg / NM / 141.9 mi.

147

1,438

10.2

$23,398

70.9

69.3

0.3

0.2

0.3

88317 / Cloudcroft / NM / 63.7 mi.

133

871

15.3

$38,276

14.3

12.3

0.1

0.6

0.3

87901 / Truth or Consequences / NM / 100.8 mi.

115

3,703

3.1

$21,063

30.5

26.8

0.5

1.5

0.2

88012 / Las Cruces / NM / 48.9 mi.

111

5,112

2.2

$32,974

64.0

60.3

1.4

0.6

0.5

88352 / Tularosa / NM / 98 mi.

111

1,960

5.7

$28,161

49.4

44.2

0.5

2.8

0.3

88330 / Holloman Air Force Base / NM / 77.4 mi.

396

24.0

$36,838

31.4

12.4

12.8

0.4

3.4

88337 / La Luz / NM / 90.5 mi.

933

10.0

$31,840

26.0

23.1

0.1

1.1

0.5

79851 / Sierra Blanca / TX / 84.5 mi.

230

26.5

$27,350

70.5

67.2

0.0

1.8

0.2

88023 / Bayard / NM / 111.5 mi.

1,018

6.0

$22,304

84.3

82.8

0.2

0.9

0.0

79837 / Dell City / TX / 71.8 mi.

225

25.3

$21,000

62.9

60.1

0.5

1.3

0.2

88346 / Ruidoso Downs / NM / 124.2 mi.

1,063

5.4

$28,015

44.8

39.5

0.4

2.9

0.5

88312 / Alto / NM / 122.8 mi.

521

10.7

$40,163

15.2

13.0

0.0

0.4

0.3

79853 / Tornillo / TX / 31.7 mi.

731

7.5

$21,486

98.4

98.3

0.0

87935 / Elephant Butte / NM / 107.6 mi.

905

5.7

$30,929

15.6

13.2

0.1

1.5

0.3

88047 / Mesilla Park / NM / 34.8 mi.

492

7.5

$38,942

68.2

66.8

0.1

0.4

79908 / El Paso / TX / 6 mi.

303

10.6

$43,065

55.4

19.0

29.6

0.6

3.9

79839 / Fort Hancock / TX / 49.7 mi.

529

5.9

$17,775

88.7

88.0

0.0

0.4

0.0

88340 / Mescalero / NM / 110.3 mi.

838

3.5

$23,717

96.8

10.8

0.2

83.9

0.1

88002 / White Sands Missile Range / NM / 34.6 mi.

443

6.3

$43,500

38.0

17.6

11.3

1.0

3.8

88256 / Loving / NM / 151.2 mi.

631

4.4

$26,215

69.9

68.0

0.2

0.8

0.0

87937 / Hatch / NM / 69.9 mi.

1,077

2.5

$21,295

81.5

80.3

0.0

0.4

0.1

88043 / Hurley / NM / 115 mi.

723

3.6

$25,574

64.4

61.7

0.1

1.3

0.1

88339 / Mayhill / NM / 99.5 mi.

157

16.6

$32,344

8.6

6.7

0.3

0.0

88044 / La Mesa / NM / 34 mi.

1,140

2.1

$27,755

81.7

80.3

0.2

0.3

88072 / Vado / NM / 26.6 mi.

283

8.5

$20,192

91.4

90.6

0.1

0.6

0.0

87942 / Williamsburg / NM / 105 mi.

539

4.1

$25,500

21.6

18.3

0.9

1.0

0.1

88268 / Whites City / NM / 126.6 mi.

73.1

$80,000

39.2

27.9

0.0

3.8

0.0

79843 / Marfa / TX / 169.7 mi.

1,079

0.1

$24,593

70.5

69.3

0.3

0.1

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