Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Herald Journal, Logan | ||||||||||
Logan, Utah | ||||||||||
Owner: Pioneer Newspapers (Wash.) | ||||||||||
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 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 9.5 | |||||||||
2003 | 8.7 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 5.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 5.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Herald Journal, Logan | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 9.1 | 9.9 | 92 | |||||||
2004 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 97 | |||||||
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, Pioneer Newspapers (Wash.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 26. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Herald Journal, Logan | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 92. | 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 45 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,874 ranks 614 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 Herald Journal, Logan | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.2 | 6,387 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 329 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.9 | 2,009 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 494 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 54 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 862 | ||||||||
Non-white | 9.8 | 10,135 | ||||||||
White | 90.2 | 93,229 | ||||||||
Total | 103,364 | |||||||||
Home county: Cache | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 6.3 | 5,786 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 319 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.2 | 1,981 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 466 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 53 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 797 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.3 | 9,402 | ||||||||
White | 89.7 | 81,989 | ||||||||
Total | 91,391 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Cache. | ||||||||||
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 Herald Journal, Logan | ||||||||||
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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84321 / River Heights / UT / 0 mi. | 4,847 | 12,164 | 39.8 | $31,978 | 13.2 | 7.8 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 3.1 | |
84341 / North Logan / UT / 3.1 mi. | 2,132 | 5,086 | 41.9 | $39,309 | 10.4 | 4.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 4.0 | |
84335 / Smithfield / UT / 6.8 mi. | 1,573 | 2,375 | 66.2 | $46,784 | 6.9 | 5.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
84319 / Hyrum / UT / 6.6 mi. | 1,129 | 1,800 | 62.7 | $43,926 | 15.4 | 13.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
84332 / Providence / UT / 2.3 mi. | 930 | 1,277 | 72.8 | $56,036 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
83263 / Preston / ID / 29.4 mi. | 818 | 2,596 | 31.5 | $36,568 | 6.0 | 4.9 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
84339 / Young Ward / UT / 7.5 mi. | 627 | 1,231 | 50.9 | $48,351 | 8.2 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
84318 / Hyde Park / UT / 4.3 mi. | 537 | 700 | 76.7 | $52,400 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
84333 / Richmond / UT / 12.1 mi. | 353 | 612 | 57.7 | $42,286 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
84320 / Lewiston / UT / 15.3 mi. | 286 | 686 | 41.7 | $38,819 | 7.2 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
84326 / Millville / UT / 3.2 mi. | 257 | 291 | 88.3 | $50,234 | 4.6 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
84325 / Petersboro / UT / 7.8 mi. | 241 | 360 | 66.9 | $52,784 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
84328 / Paradise / UT / 11.2 mi. | 218 | 343 | 63.6 | $45,000 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
84305 / Clarkston / UT / 15.9 mi. | 212 | 216 | 98.1 | $40,438 | 4.4 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
84337 / Tremonton / UT / 19.4 mi. | 105 | 2,645 | 4.0 | $47,419 | 9.5 | 7.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.3 | |
83286 / Weston / ID / 21.6 mi. | 99 | 319 | 31.0 | $36,979 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
83237 / Franklin / ID / 19.1 mi. | 94 | 270 | 34.8 | $33,015 | 13.6 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
84338 / Trenton / UT / 13.7 mi. | 62 | 155 | 40.0 | $35,938 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
84038 / Round Valley / UT / 23.8 mi. | 56 | 108 | 51.9 | $51,875 | 5.1 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 | |
84028 / Swan Creek / UT / 23.3 mi. | 51 | 189 | 27.0 | $42,500 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
83232 / Dayton / ID / 26.9 mi. | 31 | 72 | 43.1 | $35,750 | 10.8 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
83228 / Clifton / ID / 33.4 mi. | 28 | 175 | 16.0 | $31,786 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
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