Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Texarkana Gazette | ||||||||||
Texarkana, Texas | ||||||||||
Owner: Wehco Media (Ark.) | ||||||||||
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 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 12.5 | |||||||||
2003 | 15.6 | |||||||||
2002 | 17.2 | |||||||||
2001 | 22.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 10.7 | |||||||||
1999 | 10.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 10.3 | |||||||||
1997 | 3.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 3.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 7.4 | |||||||||
1994 | 4.2 | |||||||||
1993 | 3.6 | |||||||||
1992 | 3.6 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 3.3 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2001 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Texarkana Gazette | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 13.3 | 29.8 | 45 | |||||||
2004 | 12.5 | 29.8 | 42 | |||||||
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, Wehco Media (Ark.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 42. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Texarkana Gazette | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 45. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 70 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Longview News-Journal, Texas, with a 23.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 28.4 percent non-white. Its index is 81. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 30,508 ranks 334 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 Texarkana Gazette | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.8 | 7,528 | ||||||||
Black | 24.0 | 47,893 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 697 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 1,163 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 119 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 2,147 | ||||||||
Non-white | 29.8 | 59,547 | ||||||||
White | 70.2 | 140,289 | ||||||||
Total | 199,836 | |||||||||
Home county: Bowie | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.5 | 3,992 | ||||||||
Black | 23.3 | 20,787 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 405 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 487 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 50 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 873 | ||||||||
Non-white | 29.8 | 26,594 | ||||||||
White | 70.2 | 62,712 | ||||||||
Total | 89,306 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Bowie. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Texarkana Gazette | ||||||||||
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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75501 / Texarkana / TX / 0 mi. | 8,065 | 13,113 | 61.5 | $28,143 | 42.2 | 5.4 | 35.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
71854 / Texarkana / AR / 18.7 mi. | 6,080 | 13,301 | 45.7 | $31,143 | 29.9 | 1.7 | 25.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
75503 / Texarkana / TX / 12 mi. | 3,335 | 8,456 | 39.4 | $45,177 | 18.3 | 2.3 | 13.8 | 0.5 | 0.9 | |
75570 / New Boston / TX / 16.2 mi. | 1,403 | 3,548 | 39.5 | $31,618 | 32.8 | 8.7 | 22.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
75551 / Atlanta / TX / 19.2 mi. | 1,033 | 4,469 | 23.1 | $29,585 | 22.7 | 1.5 | 19.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
75561 / Hooks / TX / 8.8 mi. | 984 | 2,090 | 47.1 | $32,354 | 20.0 | 2.9 | 13.7 | 0.9 | 0.4 | |
71822 / Ashdown / AR / 21.9 mi. | 977 | 3,584 | 27.3 | $30,728 | 26.3 | 1.4 | 22.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | |
75559 / De Kalb / TX / 25 mi. | 886 | 2,455 | 36.1 | $28,306 | 23.6 | 2.9 | 18.2 | 1.1 | 0.1 | |
71801 / Hope / AR / 40.7 mi. | 726 | 6,521 | 11.1 | $28,536 | 41.3 | 9.6 | 29.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
75567 / Maud / TX / 14.5 mi. | 588 | 1,488 | 39.5 | $35,683 | 8.3 | 1.1 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
75563 / Linden / TX / 26.4 mi. | 573 | 1,878 | 30.5 | $27,740 | 20.1 | 1.6 | 17.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
75569 / Nash / TX / 7.2 mi. | 496 | 995 | 49.8 | $29,259 | 23.3 | 3.8 | 17.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
75572 / Queen City / TX / 11 mi. | 496 | 1,376 | 36.0 | $28,594 | 22.1 | 1.5 | 18.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
71837 / Fouke / AR / 19.5 mi. | 490 | 1,560 | 31.4 | $32,254 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
71860 / Stamps / AR / 39.3 mi. | 412 | 1,287 | 32.0 | $24,872 | 44.2 | 0.8 | 42.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
71836 / Foreman / AR / 25.7 mi. | 359 | 1,356 | 26.5 | $27,440 | 23.3 | 2.2 | 16.8 | 1.9 | 0.2 | |
75573 / Redwater / TX / 2.3 mi. | 321 | 112 | 286.6 | $26,964 | 33.0 | 2.9 | 27.6 | 1.8 | 0.0 | |
71832 / De Queen / AR / 49.7 mi. | 316 | 3,394 | 9.3 | $30,390 | 34.9 | 28.1 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 0.2 | |
71852 / Nashville / AR / 48.9 mi. | 280 | 3,855 | 7.3 | $29,716 | 26.4 | 5.0 | 19.6 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
71845 / Lewisville / AR / 33.7 mi. | 223 | 1,046 | 21.3 | $25,500 | 42.6 | 1.2 | 40.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
71851 / Mineral Springs / AR / 38.4 mi. | 222 | 953 | 23.3 | $28,869 | 52.6 | 6.7 | 44.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
75560 / Douglassville / TX / 14.8 mi. | 206 | 460 | 44.8 | $25,000 | 42.3 | 0.5 | 39.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
75568 / Naples / TX / 30.1 mi. | 192 | 1,228 | 15.6 | $23,964 | 29.9 | 1.9 | 26.5 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
71857 / Prescott / AR / 59.4 mi. | 180 | 2,491 | 7.2 | $28,007 | 33.8 | 2.0 | 30.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
75638 / Daingerfield / TX / 37.9 mi. | 162 | 2,452 | 6.6 | $32,563 | 29.7 | 3.8 | 24.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
71834 / Doddridge / AR / 22.6 mi. | 145 | 609 | 23.8 | $26,667 | 14.7 | 0.4 | 13.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
75554 / Avery / TX / 34.7 mi. | 133 | 756 | 17.6 | $26,474 | 8.9 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
74745 / Idabel / OK / 46.8 mi. | 126 | 3,838 | 3.3 | $22,858 | 38.8 | 4.1 | 19.9 | 10.4 | 0.4 | |
71859 / Saratoga / AR / 33.9 mi. | 118 | 174 | 67.8 | $22,917 | 34.2 | 0.5 | 31.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
75574 / Simms / TX / 22.9 mi. | 115 | 702 | 16.4 | $29,647 | 4.0 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
75455 / Mount Pleasant / TX / 43.7 mi. | 99 | 8,285 | 1.2 | $32,862 | 43.1 | 30.6 | 11.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
71842 / Horatio / AR / 37.5 mi. | 94 | 829 | 11.3 | $32,063 | 14.3 | 9.9 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.1 | |
75426 / Clarksville / TX / 48.5 mi. | 91 | 2,499 | 3.6 | $25,481 | 38.9 | 6.2 | 31.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
75571 / Omaha / TX / 34 mi. | 88 | 1,073 | 8.2 | $29,233 | 26.4 | 3.6 | 21.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
75556 / Bloomburg / TX / 18 mi. | 84 | 296 | 28.4 | $25,972 | 13.4 | 3.5 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
71826 / Bradley / AR / 36.8 mi. | 81 | 580 | 14.0 | $18,466 | 42.1 | 1.8 | 38.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
71838 / Fulton / AR / 29.6 mi. | 80 | 564 | 14.2 | $23,810 | 51.3 | 1.9 | 48.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
71958 / Murfreesboro / AR / 57.9 mi. | 68 | 1,061 | 6.4 | $26,524 | 9.6 | 1.3 | 6.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | |
71865 / Wilton / AR / 26.9 mi. | 66 | 51 | 129.4 | $22,404 | 33.1 | 0.0 | 31.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
71753 / Magnolia / AR / 56.1 mi. | 63 | 6,658 | 0.9 | $27,695 | 39.2 | 1.1 | 36.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
71853 / Ogden / AR / 21.4 mi. | 61 | 208 | 29.3 | $26,429 | 67.5 | 6.3 | 58.8 | 1.2 | 0.2 | |
74728 / Broken Bow / OK / 57.6 mi. | 61 | 4,529 | 1.3 | $24,497 | 28.2 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 14.3 | 0.2 | |
75550 / Annona / TX / 40.9 mi. | 56 | 367 | 15.3 | $27,240 | 30.1 | 9.9 | 17.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
71862 / Washington / AR / 41.3 mi. | 33 | 342 | 9.6 | $22,656 | 57.4 | 3.7 | 52.4 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
75656 / Hughes Springs / TX / 31.8 mi. | 32 | 1,792 | 1.8 | $30,818 | 17.3 | 2.4 | 13.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
71846 / Lockesburg / AR / 38.6 mi. | 29 | 1,089 | 2.7 | $29,000 | 17.5 | 1.9 | 12.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
75657 / Jefferson / TX / 39.9 mi. | 25 | 3,536 | 0.7 | $26,005 | 31.4 | 1.8 | 27.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
71825 / Blevins / AR / 53.8 mi. | 24 | 252 | 9.5 | $36,563 | 25.9 | 12.3 | 12.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
71770 / Waldo / AR / 51.7 mi. | 21 | 1,436 | 1.5 | $25,685 | 41.4 | 1.0 | 39.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
71866 / Winthrop / AR / 36.5 mi. | 8 | 258 | 3.1 | $28,036 | 5.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 0.0 | |
File | tx_texarkana_gazette | |||||||||
Time | 5/19/05 6:19 PM | |||||||||
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