Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Temple Daily Telegram | ||||||||||
Temple, 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 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2004 | 16.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 12.5 | |||||||||
2002 | 8.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 16.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 15.4 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 7.1 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Temple Daily Telegram | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 7.7 | 30.3 | 25 | |||||||
2004 | 16.0 | 30.3 | 53 | |||||||
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 Temple Daily Telegram | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 25. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 139 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 Greeley Tribune, Colorado, with a 26.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30 percent non-white. Its index is 88. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 20,128 ranks 483 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 Temple Daily Telegram | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 17.3 | 21,707 | ||||||||
Black | 10.5 | 13,227 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 1,206 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 476 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 80 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 1,421 | ||||||||
Non-white | 30.3 | 38,117 | ||||||||
White | 69.7 | 87,554 | ||||||||
Total | 125,671 | |||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Temple Daily 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 |
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76502 / Temple / TX / 5.3 mi. | 4,601 | 9,074 | 50.7 | $48,266 | 21.8 | 10.9 | 7.4 | 0.4 | 1.7 | |
76513 / Belton / TX / 4.1 mi. | 4,016 | 9,774 | 41.1 | $39,432 | 25.1 | 17.6 | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 | |
76504 / Temple / TX / 5.6 mi. | 3,805 | 8,811 | 43.2 | $30,429 | 40.6 | 20.7 | 16.2 | 0.3 | 1.8 | |
76501 / Zabcikville / TX / 5.9 mi. | 3,187 | 5,756 | 55.4 | $30,679 | 47.7 | 21.5 | 24.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
76520 / Pettibone / TX / 32.2 mi. | 650 | 3,225 | 20.2 | $28,855 | 38.3 | 22.1 | 14.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
76571 / Salado / TX / 14.2 mi. | 568 | 1,974 | 28.8 | $59,489 | 10.9 | 8.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
76579 / Troy / TX / 7.9 mi. | 476 | 1,211 | 39.3 | $41,875 | 17.5 | 14.0 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
76569 / Rogers / TX / 18.7 mi. | 378 | 898 | 42.1 | $35,500 | 21.0 | 17.2 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
76534 / Vilas / TX / 18 mi. | 320 | 871 | 36.7 | $36,420 | 18.9 | 14.2 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
76554 / Little River-Aca / TX / 11.9 mi. | 304 | 714 | 42.6 | $40,781 | 16.1 | 13.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
76511 / Bartlett / TX / 23.1 mi. | 252 | 813 | 31.0 | $31,213 | 48.7 | 26.8 | 20.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
76557 / Willow Grove / TX / 11 mi. | 213 | 1,174 | 18.1 | $40,357 | 18.7 | 14.7 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
76567 / Salty / TX / 39.9 mi. | 211 | 3,455 | 6.1 | $36,073 | 30.4 | 18.3 | 10.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
76570 / Zipperlenville / TX / 26.3 mi. | 191 | 1,090 | 17.5 | $28,021 | 34.5 | 19.2 | 14.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
76550 / Watson / TX / 41.3 mi. | 150 | 4,149 | 3.6 | $34,144 | 20.6 | 17.2 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
76528 / Pidcoke / TX / 24.3 mi. | 148 | 5,353 | 2.8 | $34,723 | 32.0 | 11.9 | 18.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
76518 / Yarrelton / TX / 24.1 mi. | 139 | 550 | 25.3 | $32,727 | 30.3 | 25.6 | 3.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
76656 / Westphalia / TX / 20.4 mi. | 136 | 816 | 16.7 | $29,375 | 21.5 | 9.9 | 10.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
76519 / Meeks / TX / 34 mi. | 79 | 205 | 38.5 | $31,058 | 25.5 | 19.3 | 5.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
76544 / Montague Village / TX / 17.2 mi. | 77 | 5,858 | 1.3 | $32,397 | 54.7 | 16.7 | 30.7 | 1.0 | 2.8 | |
76541 / Killeen / TX / 15.9 mi. | 74 | 9,000 | 0.8 | $26,679 | 58.5 | 21.3 | 28.2 | 0.8 | 4.2 | |
76537 / Theon / TX / 23.1 mi. | 58 | 746 | 7.8 | $39,810 | 25.0 | 22.7 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
76522 / Topsey / TX / 25.7 mi. | 57 | 11,672 | 0.5 | $38,999 | 37.1 | 11.3 | 18.2 | 0.7 | 2.9 | |
76530 / Granger / TX / 28.4 mi. | 54 | 906 | 6.0 | $34,968 | 25.8 | 19.9 | 5.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
76543 / Killeen / TX / 13.8 mi. | 51 | 10,582 | 0.5 | $35,154 | 62.1 | 16.6 | 36.1 | 0.6 | 4.7 | |
76548 / Killeen / TX / 12.9 mi. | 50 | 6,293 | 0.8 | $42,819 | 34.4 | 12.4 | 14.6 | 0.6 | 3.9 | |
76542 / Youngsport / TX / 16.7 mi. | 39 | 8,801 | 0.4 | $45,371 | 50.2 | 14.8 | 25.1 | 0.6 | 5.3 | |
76524 / Eddy / TX / 34.2 mi. | 34 | 830 | 4.1 | $40,125 | 18.3 | 15.3 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
76559 / Nolanville / TX / 10.2 mi. | 26 | 857 | 3.0 | $35,556 | 29.8 | 16.4 | 7.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | |
76556 / Sandy Creek / TX / 44.8 mi. | 24 | 491 | 4.9 | $34,271 | 15.4 | 6.5 | 7.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
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