Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Greenville Herald Banner | ||||||||||
Greenville, Texas | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.) | ||||||||||
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 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1997 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 18.2 | |||||||||
1995 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1994 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1993 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1992 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1990 | 22.2 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1990 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Greenville Herald Banner | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 7.7 | 24.0 | 32 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 24.0 | 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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Greenville Herald Banner | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 32. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 69 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Lake City Reporter, Florida, with a 23.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 21.4 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,127 ranks 902 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 Greenville Herald Banner | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 9.3 | 5,247 | ||||||||
Black | 12.3 | 6,971 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 434 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 274 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 47 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 647 | ||||||||
Non-white | 24.0 | 13,620 | ||||||||
White | 76.0 | 43,025 | ||||||||
Total | 56,645 | |||||||||
Home county: Hunt | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.3 | 6,366 | ||||||||
Black | 9.4 | 7,183 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 460 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 478 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 54 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 885 | ||||||||
Non-white | 20.1 | 15,426 | ||||||||
White | 79.9 | 61,170 | ||||||||
Total | 76,596 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Hunt. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Greenville Herald Banner | ||||||||||
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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75402 / Greenville / TX / 3 mi. | 2,917 | 5,703 | 51.1 | $46,878 | 11.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
75401 / Greenville / TX / 0 mi. | 2,524 | 6,375 | 39.6 | $30,754 | 43.9 | 18.6 | 23.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
75428 / Commerce / TX / 15.5 mi. | 600 | 3,538 | 17.0 | $25,469 | 28.9 | 7.3 | 17.3 | 0.4 | 2.4 | |
75474 / Quinlan / TX / 15 mi. | 385 | 5,050 | 7.6 | $34,436 | 8.9 | 5.2 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | |
75135 / Caddo Mills / TX / 9.3 mi. | 286 | 1,586 | 18.0 | $44,634 | 11.0 | 6.1 | 3.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
75422 / Campbell / TX / 9.9 mi. | 278 | 1,037 | 26.8 | $39,344 | 8.7 | 3.9 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | |
75496 / Wolfe City / TX / 15.2 mi. | 262 | 1,068 | 24.5 | $35,242 | 14.3 | 3.6 | 8.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | |
75453 / Lone Oak / TX / 11.8 mi. | 224 | 1,208 | 18.5 | $35,577 | 7.8 | 4.0 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | |
75423 / Celeste / TX / 12.6 mi. | 216 | 843 | 25.6 | $40,000 | 7.0 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | |
75189 / Royse City / TX / 18.9 mi. | 85 | 3,435 | 2.5 | $47,664 | 22.2 | 16.5 | 3.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
75442 / Farmersville / TX / 15.7 mi. | 82 | 2,627 | 3.1 | $44,266 | 17.1 | 10.5 | 4.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
75452 / Leonard / TX / 21.2 mi. | 65 | 1,412 | 4.6 | $37,480 | 11.6 | 6.1 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
75472 / Point / TX / 21 mi. | 53 | 1,021 | 5.2 | $32,209 | 10.4 | 5.3 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.6 | |
75433 / Cumby / TX / 18 mi. | 43 | 980 | 4.4 | $35,769 | 6.8 | 4.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
75440 / Emory / TX / 29.6 mi. | 29 | 1,896 | 1.5 | $32,431 | 12.1 | 6.3 | 4.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
75164 / Josephine / TX / 12.8 mi. | 18 | 233 | 7.7 | $35,500 | 11.8 | 9.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 | |
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