Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Herald, Provo | ||||||||||
Provo, Utah | ||||||||||
Owner: Pulitzer (Mo.) | ||||||||||
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 | 5.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 3.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 3.7 | |||||||||
1995 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1994 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 The Daily Herald, Provo | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 5.0 | 10.5 | 47 | |||||||
2004 | 7.7 | 10.5 | 73 | |||||||
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, Pulitzer (Mo.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Daily Herald, Provo | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 47. | 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 63 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 28,497 ranks 360 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 The Daily Herald, Provo | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.9 | 27,286 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 1,087 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.5 | 6,147 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 2,063 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 339 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 5,010 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.5 | 41,932 | ||||||||
White | 89.5 | 356,385 | ||||||||
Total | 398,317 | |||||||||
Home county: Utah | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.0 | 25,791 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 1,002 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 5,944 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 1,881 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 328 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 4,793 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.8 | 39,739 | ||||||||
White | 89.2 | 328,797 | ||||||||
Total | 368,536 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Utah. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Daily Herald, Provo | ||||||||||
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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84604 / Provo / UT / 0 mi. | 7,328 | 12,182 | 60.2 | $39,563 | 10.7 | 5.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.8 | |
84660 / Spanish Fork / UT / 15.9 mi. | 6,583 | 6,354 | 103.6 | $49,534 | 6.4 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
84003 / American Fork / UT / 11.9 mi. | 6,550 | 7,828 | 83.7 | $57,087 | 6.2 | 3.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
84057 / Orem / UT / 5.7 mi. | 5,465 | 10,003 | 54.6 | $44,325 | 15.8 | 10.6 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.4 | |
84058 / Orem / UT / 7.4 mi. | 5,085 | 8,113 | 62.7 | $44,928 | 13.4 | 8.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.4 | |
84097 / Orem / UT / 4.3 mi. | 4,810 | 5,348 | 89.9 | $60,370 | 9.2 | 5.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.8 | |
84062 / Pleasant Grove / UT / 7.6 mi. | 4,775 | 6,924 | 69.0 | $53,040 | 7.1 | 4.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
84663 / Springville / UT / 15.8 mi. | 3,956 | 6,244 | 63.4 | $47,031 | 7.8 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.0 | |
84043 / Lehi / UT / 17.2 mi. | 3,852 | 6,292 | 61.2 | $53,607 | 5.6 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.9 | |
84601 / Provo / UT / 9.2 mi. | 3,468 | 8,461 | 41.0 | $35,253 | 24.4 | 18.6 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 2.3 | |
84651 / Payson / UT / 24.3 mi. | 3,180 | 4,890 | 65.0 | $46,787 | 7.9 | 5.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
84606 / Provo / UT / 8.5 mi. | 2,446 | 8,486 | 28.8 | $27,857 | 16.5 | 11.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.5 | |
84042 / Lindon / UT / 6.1 mi. | 1,520 | 1,953 | 77.8 | $62,321 | 5.8 | 3.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
84653 / Salem / UT / 25.1 mi. | 1,451 | 1,395 | 104.0 | $56,938 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
84664 / Mapleton / UT / 15.5 mi. | 1,349 | 1,439 | 93.7 | $59,811 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
84655 / Santaquin / UT / 29 mi. | 990 | 1,640 | 60.4 | $44,313 | 12.0 | 10.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
84004 / Alpine / UT / 11.4 mi. | 973 | 1,767 | 55.1 | $73,650 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
84629 / Fairview / UT / 41.7 mi. | 785 | 664 | 118.2 | $37,083 | 4.8 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.9 | |
84648 / Nephi / UT / 55.5 mi. | 615 | 1,491 | 41.2 | $38,302 | 4.1 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
84032 / Heber City / UT / 25.1 mi. | 453 | 3,543 | 12.8 | $48,421 | 7.4 | 5.8 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
84013 / Cedar Valley / UT / 27.1 mi. | 401 | 234 | 171.4 | $44,600 | 5.0 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
84634 / Gunnison / UT / 81.2 mi. | 385 | 554 | 69.5 | $33,826 | 14.0 | 7.7 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.3 | |
84645 / Mona / UT / 35.9 mi. | 185 | 340 | 54.4 | $47,153 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
84633 / Goshen / UT / 30.9 mi. | 172 | 299 | 57.5 | $42,596 | 9.2 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
84628 / Eureka / UT / 55.4 mi. | 157 | 285 | 55.1 | $36,125 | 4.0 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | |
84627 / Ephraim / UT / 68.3 mi. | 123 | 1,190 | 10.3 | $28,929 | 13.0 | 9.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.7 | |
84639 / Levan / UT / 55.7 mi. | 106 | 257 | 41.2 | $33,603 | 4.9 | 3.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
84642 / Manti / UT / 81.1 mi. | 105 | 1,086 | 9.7 | $32,250 | 5.2 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.5 | |
84624 / Delta / UT / 81.6 mi. | 93 | 1,734 | 5.4 | $39,741 | 10.0 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | |
84082 / Wallsburg / UT / 7.2 mi. | 80 | 203 | 39.4 | $55,250 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
84643 / Mayfield / UT / 84.9 mi. | 24 | 182 | 13.2 | $42,250 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.0 | |
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