Tyler Morning Telegraph... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Tyler Morning Telegraph

Tyler, 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

2005

Did not report

2004

Did not report

2003

Did not report

2002

Did not report

2001

Did not report

2000

4.8

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

8.3

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

6.7

1991

6.5

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1995

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Tyler Morning Telegraph

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

26.2

N/A

2004

N/A

26.0

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 Tyler Morning Telegraph

This paper

Peer group

The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation 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 39,947 ranks 263 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 Tyler Morning Telegraph

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

9.8

31,370

Black

14.4

46,240

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

1,640

Native-American

0.4

1,134

Other non-white

0.1

168

Multi-racial

0.9

2,972

Non-white

26.0

83,524

White

74.0

237,786

Total

321,310

Home county: Smith

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

11.2

19,521

Black

19.0

33,129

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.7

1,230

Native-American

0.3

562

Other non-white

0.1

119

Multi-racial

0.9

1,547

Non-white

32.1

56,108

White

67.9

118,598

Total

174,706

The home county of this newspaper is Smith.

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

Tyler Morning Telegraph

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

75701 / Tyler / TX / 2.7 mi.

5,741

12,594

45.6

$35,544

33.3

10.5

21.0

0.3

0.7

75703 / Tyler / TX / 5.7 mi.

5,526

13,035

42.4

$43,125

17.2

3.3

10.9

0.2

1.7

75702 / Tyler / TX / 0.4 mi.

3,220

8,251

39.0

$25,119

84.8

34.5

49.0

0.2

75771 / Wood Springs / TX / 11.6 mi.

2,120

5,067

41.8

$39,620

12.1

3.9

6.3

0.4

75707 / Tyler / TX / 5.2 mi.

1,877

4,181

44.9

$47,646

11.8

4.3

5.6

0.4

0.7

75791 / Whitehouse / TX / 10.2 mi.

1,378

3,858

35.7

$49,284

9.2

3.1

4.3

0.3

0.6

75766 / Turney / TX / 26.1 mi.

1,341

9,263

14.5

$28,299

36.0

18.9

15.6

0.3

0.4

75762 / Noonday / TX / 12 mi.

1,272

3,075

41.4

$49,615

9.9

2.9

4.8

0.4

0.9

75758 / Chandler / TX / 14.3 mi.

1,166

3,170

36.8

$34,085

12.3

3.4

7.3

0.4

75757 / Teaselville / TX / 14.1 mi.

1,115

2,859

39.0

$42,912

8.9

2.7

4.4

0.5

0.4

75773 / West Mineola / TX / 21.7 mi.

881

4,415

20.0

$31,894

16.1

8.3

6.1

0.5

0.2

75704 / Tyler / TX / 6.8 mi.

859

2,668

32.2

$31,094

30.2

9.4

18.5

0.5

0.3

75789 / Walnut Grove / TX / 17.1 mi.

752

2,345

32.1

$39,083

20.5

5.8

12.6

0.6

0.5

75751 / Walton / TX / 33.9 mi.

665

8,128

8.2

$33,561

25.1

12.4

11.0

0.3

0.4

75763 / Kickapoo / TX / 23 mi.

612

2,204

27.8

$33,169

15.0

3.4

10.2

0.4

0.2

75706 / Tyler / TX / 6.8 mi.

594

2,303

25.8

$34,223

44.4

22.4

19.8

0.5

75708 / Tyler / TX / 4.4 mi.

590

1,995

29.6

$32,487

41.6

24.7

15.4

0.3

0.1

75103 / Canton / TX / 32.5 mi.

568

4,399

12.9

$35,313

8.9

4.4

2.3

0.6

0.3

75801 / Palestine / TX / 43 mi.

557

11,510

4.8

$31,524

37.0

12.2

23.2

0.3

0.6

75755 / Rhonesboro / TX / 17.9 mi.

511

2,613

19.6

$35,974

11.5

3.0

6.4

0.6

0.4

75709 / Tyler / TX / 3.3 mi.

483

1,403

34.4

$32,917

37.1

5.5

29.3

0.4

0.6

75783 / Stormville / TX / 28.6 mi.

470

2,664

17.6

$33,207

10.9

4.6

4.9

0.5

0.2

75785 / Rusk / TX / 37.7 mi.

464

3,341

13.9

$29,375

27.3

6.6

19.1

0.2

0.6

75140 / Grand Saline / TX / 29.8 mi.

441

2,446

18.0

$30,522

10.8

9.3

0.3

0.2

75494 / Winnsboro / TX / 37.7 mi.

421

4,041

10.4

$28,460

11.5

6.4

3.4

0.5

0.4

75756 / Brownsboro / TX / 15.6 mi.

392

1,279

30.6

$35,357

11.4

8.9

1.3

0.5

0.1

75765 / Jarvis College / TX / 20 mi.

382

1,663

23.0

$33,950

23.4

2.4

19.6

0.3

0.1

75750 / Arp / TX / 15.2 mi.

375

1,203

31.2

$38,168

13.6

2.5

10.1

0.3

0.1

75754 / Primrose / TX / 20 mi.

368

2,012

18.3

$33,994

18.9

9.8

5.8

0.5

0.1

75790 / Van / TX / 20.3 mi.

366

1,453

25.2

$36,953

8.7

7.0

0.2

0.3

0.2

75654 / Henderson / TX / 31.3 mi.

353

4,490

7.9

$32,360

23.8

12.8

9.9

0.2

0.3

75684 / Wright City / TX / 19.6 mi.

327

2,438

13.4

$30,992

24.0

5.7

16.6

0.6

0.1

75662 / Monroe / TX / 24.3 mi.

285

8,355

3.4

$35,612

24.5

8.3

14.5

0.3

0.5

75792 / Winona / TX / 11.9 mi.

280

1,059

26.4

$32,526

27.7

4.5

22.2

0.2

0.1

75652 / Stewart / TX / 31 mi.

266

4,666

5.7

$33,795

36.8

8.3

27.4

0.2

0.3

75925 / Redlawn / TX / 48.5 mi.

209

1,359

15.4

$28,000

34.0

8.2

24.3

0.2

0.1

75705 / Tyler / TX / 12.6 mi.

203

616

33.0

$28,571

74.4

5.3

68.2

0.1

75647 / Gladewater / TX / 23 mi.

190

4,349

4.4

$32,954

16.5

3.3

11.3

0.7

0.3

75410 / Alba / TX / 32.7 mi.

182

1,431

12.7

$31,838

5.0

3.8

0.2

0.4

0.1

75169 / Wills Point / TX / 44.8 mi.

168

5,245

3.2

$37,191

12.8

6.7

4.3

0.7

0.1

75778 / Opelika / TX / 26.4 mi.

152

1,147

13.3

$33,241

7.5

5.1

0.8

0.5

0.2

75686 / Thomas / TX / 45 mi.

116

4,226

2.7

$31,193

36.0

14.8

20.0

0.2

75117 / Edgewood / TX / 37.5 mi.

114

1,277

8.9

$35,428

9.7

4.3

0.2

0.1

75770 / New York / TX / 22.7 mi.

104

891

11.7

$35,625

25.5

4.5

19.6

0.2

75440 / Emory / TX / 40.9 mi.

1,896

4.4

$32,431

12.1

6.3

4.2

0.7

0.1

75961 / Nacogdoches / TX / 60.7 mi.

12,469

0.7

$28,482

25.8

5.9

17.8

0.3

1.0

75644 / Willow Oak / TX / 31.1 mi.

7,428

1.1

$33,099

16.9

4.0

11.3

0.4

0.1

75839 / Slocum / TX / 49.4 mi.

1,687

4.6

$31,011

10.1

2.4

6.4

0.3

0.1

75148 / Malakoff / TX / 40.5 mi.

2,355

3.1

$29,542

18.6

6.6

10.7

0.4

0.3

75681 / Mount Enterprise / TX / 48.3 mi.

1,001

5.9

$27,349

32.4

2.8

27.9

0.4

0.1

75760 / Cushing / TX / 46 mi.

1,055

4.8

$27,038

17.0

3.1

12.9

0.2

0.0

75147 / Mabank / TX / 43.8 mi.

7,926

0.6

$32,836

8.0

4.0

2.0

0.7

0.4

75861 / Yard / TX / 45.2 mi.

683

7.2

$34,429

61.4

21.4

39.4

0.1

0.4

75601 / Tenneryville / TX / 33.4 mi.

5,598

0.8

$33,903

31.6

11.4

18.2

0.4

0.8

75782 / Poynor / TX / 23.9 mi.

71.4

$28,125

13.7

6.9

5.1

0.6

0.0

75455 / Mount Pleasant / TX / 54.6 mi.

8,285

0.5

$32,862

43.1

30.6

11.0

0.3

0.5

75844 / Weches / TX / 57 mi.

2,070

1.9

$28,594

16.3

2.1

13.3

0.4

0.1

75605 / Longview / TX / 31.6 mi.

10,211

0.4

$43,536

13.2

3.2

8.1

0.3

0.8

75127 / Fruitvale / TX / 33.3 mi.

552

6.5

$31,379

7.8

5.2

0.5

0.3

0.1

75497 / Yantis / TX / 35.9 mi.

904

4.0

$36,595

10.1

8.3

0.6

0.4

0.1

75163 / Trinidad / TX / 44.4 mi.

1,145

2.9

$30,526

11.7

4.3

5.8

0.6

0.1

75604 / Longview / TX / 29.9 mi.

10,405

0.3

$36,761

21.5

9.5

9.4

0.5

0.9

75143 / Seven Points / TX / 51.6 mi.

5,141

0.6

$35,244

7.9

4.2

1.8

0.5

0.2

75444 / Golden / TX / 30.4 mi.

32.5

$31,667

4.6

3.6

0.0

0.5

0.0

75693 / White Oak / TX / 27.4 mi.

2,087

1.2

$43,710

6.9

3.0

1.8

0.9

0.1

75784 / Reklaw / TX / 33.8 mi.

276

9.1

$27,981

29.5

7.0

19.7

1.0

0.1

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