Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Killeen Daily Herald | ||||||||||
Killeen, Texas | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 13.0 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 9.5 | |||||||||
1996 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 7.7 | |||||||||
1994 | 10.5 | |||||||||
1993 | 12.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 8.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2002 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Killeen Daily Herald | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 49.8 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 49.8 | N/A | |||||||
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 Killeen Daily Herald | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 Albuquerque Tribune, New Mexico, with a 28.9 percent non-white staff in a community that is 51.7 percent non-white. Its index is 56. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 18,530 ranks 515 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 Killeen Daily Herald | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 15.5 | 28,826 | ||||||||
Black | 25.9 | 48,217 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.9 | 7,292 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 1,318 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.3 | 580 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 3.5 | 6,577 | ||||||||
Non-white | 49.8 | 92,810 | ||||||||
White | 50.2 | 93,645 | ||||||||
Total | 186,455 | |||||||||
Home county: Bell | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 16.7 | 39,701 | ||||||||
Black | 19.9 | 47,344 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.9 | 6,940 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 1,297 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 479 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.5 | 5,972 | ||||||||
Non-white | 42.8 | 101,733 | ||||||||
White | 57.3 | 136,241 | ||||||||
Total | 237,974 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Bell. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Killeen Daily Herald | ||||||||||
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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76522 / Topsey / TX / 10.2 mi. | 3,101 | 11,672 | 26.6 | $38,999 | 37.1 | 11.3 | 18.2 | 0.7 | 2.9 | |
76543 / Killeen / TX / 2.4 mi. | 2,897 | 10,582 | 27.4 | $35,154 | 62.1 | 16.6 | 36.1 | 0.6 | 4.7 | |
76542 / Youngsport / TX / 2.7 mi. | 2,694 | 8,801 | 30.6 | $45,371 | 50.2 | 14.8 | 25.1 | 0.6 | 5.3 | |
76541 / Killeen / TX / 0.5 mi. | 2,535 | 9,000 | 28.2 | $26,679 | 58.5 | 21.3 | 28.2 | 0.8 | 4.2 | |
76548 / Killeen / TX / 4.9 mi. | 2,499 | 6,293 | 39.7 | $42,819 | 34.4 | 12.4 | 14.6 | 0.6 | 3.9 | |
76549 / Killeen / TX / 0.5 mi. | 2,069 | 6,352 | 32.6 | $38,038 | 60.4 | 17.6 | 32.7 | 0.5 | 5.2 | |
76544 / Montague Village / TX / 1.8 mi. | 1,052 | 5,858 | 18.0 | $32,397 | 54.7 | 16.7 | 30.7 | 1.0 | 2.8 | |
76539 / Rumley / TX / 15.8 mi. | 630 | 2,027 | 31.1 | $47,305 | 19.9 | 9.9 | 5.2 | 0.6 | 1.7 | |
76513 / Belton / TX / 13.9 mi. | 346 | 9,774 | 3.5 | $39,432 | 25.1 | 17.6 | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 | |
76559 / Nolanville / TX / 7 mi. | 294 | 857 | 34.3 | $35,556 | 29.8 | 16.4 | 7.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | |
76550 / Watson / TX / 25.8 mi. | 267 | 4,149 | 6.4 | $34,144 | 20.6 | 17.2 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
76527 / Florence / TX / 18.8 mi. | 112 | 1,140 | 9.8 | $44,634 | 15.7 | 13.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
76528 / Pidcoke / TX / 19.9 mi. | 109 | 5,353 | 2.0 | $34,723 | 32.0 | 11.9 | 18.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
76571 / Salado / TX / 15.9 mi. | 79 | 1,974 | 4.0 | $59,489 | 10.9 | 8.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
76504 / Temple / TX / 19.5 mi. | 37 | 8,811 | 0.4 | $30,429 | 40.6 | 20.7 | 16.2 | 0.3 | 1.8 | |
76502 / Temple / TX / 18.8 mi. | 34 | 9,074 | 0.4 | $48,266 | 21.8 | 10.9 | 7.4 | 0.4 | 1.7 | |
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