Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Fort Worth, Texas
Owner: Knight Ridder (Calif.)
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	21.0
2004	22.5
2003	19.9
2002	19.3
2001	20.8
2000	20.6
1999	17.6
1998	17.7
1997	17.3
1996	15.3
1995	13.4
1994	12.9
1993	13.8
1992	12.7
1991	12.1
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 Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	21.0	32.8	64
2004	22.5	32.8	69
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, Knight Ridder (Calif.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 76.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Fort Worth Star-Telegram
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 64.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 28 out of 58
newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, with a 21 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30.8 percent non-white. Its index is 68.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 223,098 ranks 47 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 Fort Worth Star-Telegram
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	17.6	315,345
Black	10.3	183,167
Asian and Pacific Islander	3.0	54,071
Native-American	0.5	7,991
Other non-white	0.1	1,699
Multi-racial	1.4	24,565
Non-white	32.8	586,838
White	67.2	1,200,409
Total		1,787,247
	Home county:  Tarrant
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	19.7	285,290
Black	12.6	182,713
Asian and Pacific Islander	3.7	54,099
Native-American	0.4	5,971
Other non-white	0.1	1,540
Multi-racial	1.5	21,353
Non-white	38.1	550,966
White	61.9	895,253
Total		1,446,219
The home county of this newspaper is Tarrant.
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
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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
76180 / Richland Hills / TX / 8.8 mi.	8,413	20,279	41.5	$56,634	16.6	9.3	2.6	0.5	2.7
76133 / Fort Worth / TX / 7.4 mi.	8,013	17,804	45.0	$46,097	37.9	16.7	15.9	0.4	3.1
76116 / Fort Worth / TX / 7.5 mi.	7,290	20,202	36.1	$36,014	33.0	18.6	10.2	0.4	1.9
76028 / Burleson / TX / 15 mi.	6,662	13,864	48.1	$52,701	8.0	5.5	0.6	0.5	0.5
76107 / Westover Hills / TX / 3.5 mi.	6,414	12,093	53.0	$35,419	42.5	22.9	17.5	0.3	0.7
76017 / Arlington / TX / 11.5 mi.	6,164	15,521	39.7	$62,417	24.5	8.2	9.8	0.4	4.4
76248 / Roanoke / TX / 11.7 mi.	5,956	8,988	66.3	$80,627	11.5	5.7	1.6	0.3	2.6
76137 / Haltom City / TX / 6.7 mi.	5,650	13,833	40.8	$62,613	25.5	12.0	4.7	0.4	6.4
76063 / Mansfield / TX / 15.5 mi.	5,438	10,446	52.1	$64,630	19.9	12.8	4.6	0.4	1.1
76016 / Arlington / TX / 8.7 mi.	5,279	10,737	49.2	$73,195	18.6	5.9	6.6	0.4	4.0
76021 / Bedford / TX / 11.9 mi.	5,188	14,351	36.2	$59,599	16.0	6.7	3.4	0.4	4.1
76013 / Pantego / TX / 9.9 mi.	5,012	13,760	36.4	$40,188	27.0	10.2	8.7	0.5	5.6
76109 / Fort Worth / TX / 4.9 mi.	4,908	10,358	47.4	$49,649	12.5	6.4	3.0	0.3	1.8
76112 / Fort Worth / TX / 6.5 mi.	4,727	16,641	28.4	$34,295	61.4	10.5	46.3	0.3	2.6
76132 / Fort Worth / TX / 7.7 mi.	4,277	10,678	40.1	$41,007	24.5	9.6	9.2	0.3	3.7
76051 / Grapevine / TX / 16.7 mi.	4,164	15,609	26.7	$71,852	18.2	11.6	2.3	0.5	2.6
76108 / White Settlement / TX / 8.4 mi.	3,966	9,689	40.9	$41,241	21.5	12.6	4.3	0.4	1.9
76012 / Arlington / TX / 10.4 mi.	3,836	9,960	38.5	$52,212	25.1	11.8	7.9	0.5	3.3
76119 / Fort Worth / TX / 6.5 mi.	3,684	12,593	29.3	$27,377	80.4	23.2	55.1	0.2	0.8
76179 / Saginaw / TX / 8.6 mi.	3,682	7,329	50.2	$56,233	19.6	10.9	1.4	0.7	5.1
76053 / Hurst / TX / 9.2 mi.	3,503	9,525	36.8	$42,525	22.1	13.1	4.8	0.7	1.7
76034 / Colleyville / TX / 12.9 mi.	3,456	6,406	53.9	$117,169	9.3	3.3	1.3	0.4	3.2
76117 / Haltom City / TX / 4.3 mi.	3,411	11,320	30.1	$35,729	33.1	21.0	2.3	0.6	7.7
76049 / Granbury / TX / 30 mi.	3,408	7,381	46.2	$50,154	8.2	6.2	0.3	0.6	0.3
76134 / Fort Worth / TX / 7.5 mi.	3,312	6,571	50.4