Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Culpeper Star-Exponent | ||||||||||
Culpeper, Virginia | ||||||||||
Owner: Media General (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 14.3 | |||||||||
2001 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 22.2 | |||||||||
1994 | 14.3 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 14.3 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1995 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Culpeper Star-Exponent | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 11.1 | 19.7 | 56 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 22.9 | 0 | |||||||
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, Media General (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 39. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Culpeper Star-Exponent | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 56. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 43 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Lake City Reporter, Florida, with a 23.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 21.4 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 6,629 ranks 1002 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 Culpeper Star-Exponent | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.5 | 858 | ||||||||
Black | 18.1 | 6,188 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 229 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 96 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 59 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 419 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.9 | 7,849 | ||||||||
White | 77.1 | 26,413 | ||||||||
Total | 34,262 | |||||||||
Home county: Culpeper | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.5 | 858 | ||||||||
Black | 18.1 | 6,188 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 229 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 96 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 59 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 419 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.9 | 7,849 | ||||||||
White | 77.1 | 26,413 | ||||||||
Total | 34,262 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Culpeper. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Culpeper Star-Exponent | ||||||||||
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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22701 / Winston / VA / 0 mi. | 3,920 | 8,360 | 46.9 | $42,458 | 23.6 | 3.0 | 17.8 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
20186 / Warrenton / VA / 16.5 mi. | 285 | 4,300 | 6.6 | $59,235 | 18.1 | 2.5 | 13.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | |
22737 / Rixeyville / VA / 8.1 mi. | 281 | 858 | 32.8 | $55,175 | 10.6 | 1.1 | 7.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
20106 / Amissville / VA / 12.8 mi. | 223 | 1,310 | 17.0 | $60,063 | 8.4 | 1.6 | 4.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
22727 / Twymans Mill / VA / 16.6 mi. | 213 | 1,752 | 12.2 | $39,571 | 16.6 | 0.3 | 14.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
22735 / Reva / VA / 7.4 mi. | 182 | 788 | 23.1 | $38,802 | 15.9 | 1.1 | 13.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
22724 / Jeffersonton / VA / 11.6 mi. | 142 | 644 | 22.0 | $66,993 | 21.6 | 2.3 | 17.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | |
22713 / Boston / VA / 7.7 mi. | 134 | 282 | 47.5 | $41,328 | 7.0 | 2.5 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
22715 / Brightwood / VA / 8.8 mi. | 119 | 523 | 22.8 | $38,256 | 5.2 | 0.7 | 4.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
22734 / Remington / VA / 11.2 mi. | 119 | 824 | 14.4 | $46,296 | 15.2 | 3.6 | 9.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
22712 / Morrisville / VA / 13.6 mi. | 111 | 2,319 | 4.8 | $50,850 | 14.3 | 2.2 | 9.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
22740 / Sperryville / VA / 15.7 mi. | 106 | 573 | 18.5 | $42,188 | 5.9 | 0.6 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
20187 / Warrenton / VA / 21.9 mi. | 98 | 4,276 | 2.3 | $80,589 | 9.4 | 1.7 | 5.4 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
22714 / Brandy Station / VA / 6.8 mi. | 94 | 259 | 36.3 | $45,583 | 25.0 | 2.1 | 20.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
22960 / Thornhill / VA / 15.6 mi. | 93 | 3,618 | 2.6 | $36,486 | 23.7 | 1.3 | 21.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
22733 / Rapidan / VA / 9 mi. | 87 | 396 | 22.0 | $50,179 | 48.4 | 1.8 | 44.7 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
22718 / Elkwood / VA / 10.7 mi. | 76 | 238 | 31.9 | $37,083 | 11.6 | 3.5 | 6.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
22726 / Lignum / VA / 11.1 mi. | 60 | 261 | 23.0 | $37,292 | 30.1 | 1.8 | 25.2 | 0.0 | 1.8 | |
22716 / Castleton / VA / 9.9 mi. | 52 | 367 | 14.2 | $55,156 | 5.2 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
22508 / Mine Run / VA / 15.8 mi. | 51 | 3,119 | 1.6 | $52,575 | 8.7 | 1.6 | 5.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
22747 / Washington / VA / 17.5 mi. | 38 | 445 | 8.5 | $46,100 | 16.5 | 1.9 | 11.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
22736 / Richardsville / VA / 17.1 mi. | 36 | 69 | 52.2 | $56,750 | 10.0 | 1.4 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 1.0 | |
22741 / Stevensburg / VA / 7.8 mi. | 34 | 71 | 47.9 | $33,750 | 20.6 | 4.3 | 16.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
22746 / Viewtown / VA / 10.5 mi. | 31 | 133 | 23.3 | $76,379 | 6.6 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
22709 / Aroda / VA / 15.8 mi. | 24 | 293 | 8.2 | $50,536 | 12.8 | 1.0 | 10.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
22728 / Midland / VA / 18.1 mi. | 24 | 966 | 2.5 | $60,750 | 13.3 | 1.6 | 10.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
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