Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Daily Press, Newport News
Newport News, Virginia
Owner: Tribune Co. (Ill.)
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	13.3
2003	8.4
2002	17.0
2001	15.2
2000	13.8
1999	13.2
1998	10.9
1997	11.7
1996	11.4
1995	8.4
1994	13.0
1993	10.2
1992	11.8
1991	11.9
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	2002
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Daily Press, Newport News
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	N/A	38.5	N/A
2004	13.3	38.5	35
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, Tribune Co. (Ill.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 55.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Daily Press, Newport News
	This paper
					Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 50 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 The Times, Shreveport, Louisiana, with a 31.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 41.3 percent non-white. Its index is 75.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 91,307 ranks 114 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 Daily Press, Newport News
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	2.8	15,650
Black	31.5	177,304
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.9	10,615
Native-American	0.4	2,271
Other non-white	0.2	869
Multi-racial	1.7	9,788
Non-white	38.5	216,497
White	61.5	346,248
Total		562,745
	Home county:  Newport News city
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	4.2	7,595
Black	38.6	69,538
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.4	4,311
Native-American	0.4	685
Other non-white	0.2	356
Multi-racial	2.2	4,041
Non-white	48.0	86,526
White	52.0	93,624
Total		180,150
The home county of this newspaper is Newport News city.
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
Daily Press, Newport News
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
23185 / Williamsburg / VA / 24 mi.	8,808	14,912	59.1	$52,231	20.4	1.8	14.5	0.3	2.2
23666 / Hampton / VA / 5 mi.	8,568	19,719	43.5	$42,263	51.8	3.0	43.5	0.4	2.7
23669 / Hampton / VA / 6.3 mi.	6,396	15,958	40.1	$38,171	53.2	2.7	46.2	0.4	1.8
23602 / Newport News / VA / 10.2 mi.	6,031	16,088	37.5	$43,350	42.1	4.6	30.5	0.4	3.7
23607 / Newport News / VA / 0 mi.	5,399	10,142	53.2	$19,160	90.1	1.4	86.4	0.3	0.2
23606 / Newport News / VA / 7.4 mi.	5,096	11,062	46.1	$40,344	26.5	3.3	19.2	0.3	2.0
23601 / Newport News / VA / 5.4 mi.	5,067	10,305	49.2	$36,257	31.6	2.9	24.8	0.4	1.4
23608 / Newport News / VA / 13.2 mi.	5,052	15,210	33.2	$41,591	50.1	5.9	37.1	0.4	3.8
23188 / Williamsburg / VA / 30.8 mi.	3,568	9,107	39.2	$55,502	20.6	1.9	15.5	0.3	1.5
23692 / Yorktown / VA / 13.3 mi.	3,491	6,414	54.4	$62,379	11.6	1.9	5.7	0.3	2.5
23693 / Yorktown / VA / 9.4 mi.	3,397	6,417	52.9	$68,482	21.1	2.8	10.3	0.3	5.7
23661 / Hampton / VA / 2.5 mi.	3,075	5,895	52.2	$36,156	68.0	1.2	64.4	0.3	0.6
23662 / Poquoson / VA / 10.5 mi.	2,832	4,166	68.0	$60,920	4.5	1.1	0.7	0.2	1.6
23061 / Gloucester / VA / 31.9 mi.	2,813	7,004	40.2	$45,710	15.8	1.7	11.9	0.3	0.5
23663 / Hampton / VA / 6.4 mi.	2,764	5,620	49.2	$33,653	58.1	2.8	50.7	0.4	1.3
23430 / Smithfield / VA / 13 mi.	2,574	5,697	45.2	$46,039	35.7	0.9	33.1	0.3	0.4
23605 / Newport News / VA / 2.2 mi.	1,747	6,104	28.6	$30,457	53.8	2.3	47.9	0.5	1.0
23664 / Hampton / VA / 9.2 mi.	1,653	4,445	37.2	$44,320	24.4	2.3	18.6	0.4	1.5
23072 / Hayes / VA / 22 mi.	1,176	4,590	25.6	$44,844	12.8	1.6	8.6	0.5	1.0
23314 / Carrollton / VA / 6.7 mi.	772	1,668	46.3	$58,605	15.6	1.1	13.2	0.2	0.6
23696 / Seaford / VA / 14.1 mi.	725	1,290	56.2	$64,392	7.0	1.6	3.4	0.4	0.8
23690 / Yorktown / VA / 18.6 mi.	707	893	79.2	$25,990	60.3	4.0	52.5	0.2	0.9
23149 / Saluda / VA / 41.9 mi.	546	915	59.7	$41,065	23.1	0.9	20.7	0.3	0.1
23181 / West Point / VA / 49.9 mi.	470	1,658	28.3	$44,286	24.9	1.9	19.6	1.7	0.8
23089 / Lanexa / VA / 42.9 mi.	457	1,640	27.9	$44,295	15.1	1.0	11.6	0.7	0.3
23062 / Gloucester Point / VA / 19 mi.	450	1,090	41.3	$46,204	11.1