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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | 1.6 | 6.2 | 0.5 | 1.4 | |
23168 / Toano / VA / 36.1 mi. | 438 | 1,593 | 27.5 | $45,633 | 28.0 | 1.0 | 25.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
23883 / Surry / VA / 20.4 mi. | 378 | 842 | 44.9 | $37,917 | 57.4 | 0.6 | 55.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
23487 / Windsor / VA / 18.9 mi. | 347 | 2,155 | 16.1 | $41,239 | 25.0 | 1.1 | 22.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
23109 / Mathews / VA / 31 mi. | 343 | 796 | 43.1 | $42,196 | 10.2 | 0.9 | 8.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
23030 / Charles City / VA / 42.8 mi. | 320 | 1,852 | 17.3 | $42,716 | 63.6 | 0.7 | 55.9 | 5.7 | 0.1 | |
23434 / Suffolk / VA / 22 mi. | 310 | 14,872 | 2.1 | $35,211 | 52.8 | 1.1 | 49.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
23043 / Deltaville / VA / 39.2 mi. | 268 | 824 | 32.5 | $40,043 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
23603 / Newport News / VA / 16.3 mi. | 268 | 1,329 | 20.2 | $36,613 | 40.0 | 6.8 | 28.6 | 0.4 | 1.8 | |
23651 / Fort Monroe / VA / 6.8 mi. | 262 | 363 | 72.2 | $38,750 | 40.9 | 10.7 | 24.0 | 0.8 | 1.6 | |
23604 / Fort Eustis / VA / 14.8 mi. | 247 | 965 | 25.6 | $31,441 | 50.2 | 15.0 | 28.9 | 0.8 | 2.3 | |
23665 / Hampton / VA / 7.5 mi. | 241 | 1,764 | 13.7 | $38,926 | 34.3 | 5.2 | 23.9 | 0.4 | 2.3 | |
23128 / North / VA / 33.4 mi. | 235 | 316 | 74.4 | $53,672 | 17.2 | 0.6 | 15.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
23175 / Urbanna / VA / 47 mi. | 235 | 858 | 27.4 | $43,750 | 21.4 | 0.5 | 20.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
23138 / Port Haywood / VA / 27.6 mi. | 227 | 554 | 41.0 | $35,909 | 12.4 | 1.6 | 10.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
23435 / Suffolk / VA / 11.4 mi. | 225 | 5,194 | 4.3 | $52,036 | 40.8 | 1.9 | 35.2 | 0.4 | 1.7 | |
23890 / Waverly / VA / 39.3 mi. | 207 | 1,647 | 12.6 | $32,545 | 69.0 | 1.1 | 67.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
27948 / Kill Devil Hills / NC / 78.9 mi. | 197 | 3,956 | 5.0 | $40,968 | 5.2 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
23035 / Cobbs Creek / VA / 35.4 mi. | 192 | 589 | 32.6 | $45,327 | 18.8 | 1.3 | 15.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
23076 / Hudgins / VA / 33.7 mi. | 192 | 249 | 77.1 | $52,273 | 9.0 | 0.5 | 6.9 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
23839 / Dendron / VA / 27.5 mi. | 180 | 335 | 53.7 | $40,429 | 56.6 | 0.9 | 54.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
23888 / Wakefield / VA / 31 mi. | 174 | 946 | 18.4 | $28,125 | 49.5 | 0.5 | 48.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
23169 / Topping / VA / 42.2 mi. | 149 | 512 | 29.1 | $32,177 | 22.9 | 1.4 | 20.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
23011 / Barhamsville / VA / 39.3 mi. | 146 | 268 | 54.5 | $48,750 | 34.9 | 1.1 | 32.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
22482 / Kilmarnock / VA / 52.1 mi. | 144 | 1,222 | 11.8 | $36,058 | 28.3 | 0.8 | 26.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
23071 / Hartfield / VA / 39.7 mi. | 113 | 466 | 24.2 | $37,411 | 12.8 | 0.4 | 11.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
23701 / Portsmouth / VA / 12.6 mi. | 113 | 10,400 | 1.1 | $36,188 | 57.4 | 1.0 | 54.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
23184 / Wicomico / VA / 21.4 mi. | 112 | 25 | 448.0 | $15,313 | 6.8 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
23898 / Zuni / VA / 25.6 mi. | 101 | 785 | 12.9 | $50,197 | 25.9 | 1.1 | 23.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
23703 / Portsmouth / VA / 7.8 mi. | 94 | 9,673 | 1.0 | $44,375 | 45.5 | 2.9 | 38.8 | 0.5 | 1.6 | |
23140 / Providence Forge / VA / 47 mi. | 90 | 1,264 | 7.1 | $43,309 | 56.8 | 1.3 | 44.1 | 9.9 | 0.2 | |
22480 / Irvington / VA / 46.8 mi. | 89 | 290 | 30.7 | $57,500 | 10.3 | 0.1 | 10.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
23156 / Shacklefords / VA / 41 mi. | 89 | 639 | 13.9 | $35,375 | 42.0 | 1.2 | 38.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
23110 / Mattaponi / VA / 49.2 mi. | 81 | 230 | 35.2 | $30,568 | 15.0 | 0.2 | 14.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
23025 / Cardinal / VA / 29.4 mi. | 80 | 173 | 46.2 | $36,328 | 47.1 | 0.0 | 46.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
23881 / Spring Grove / VA / 34 mi. | 78 | 922 | 8.5 | $35,921 | 66.4 | 6.2 | 57.3 | 0.5 | 1.1 | |
23032 / Church View / VA / 49.2 mi. | 70 | 151 | 46.4 | $33,750 | 42.8 | 0.5 | 42.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
23846 / Elberon / VA / 22.3 mi. | 65 | 304 | 21.4 | $41,369 | 46.6 | 1.0 | 43.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
22578 / White Stone / VA / 45.8 mi. | 63 | 1,218 | 5.2 | $44,205 | 19.6 | 0.2 | 18.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
23866 / Ivor / VA / 25.6 mi. | 63 | 713 | 8.8 | $33,558 | 29.3 | 0.2 | 27.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
23691 / Yorktown / VA / 15.9 mi. | 59 | 41 | 143.9 | $54,821 | 43.0 | 5.7 | 26.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | |
23001 / Achilles / VA / 20.2 mi. | 54 | 13 | 415.4 | $6,250 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
23086 / King William / VA / 58.4 mi. | 53 | 884 | 6.0 | $52,772 | 32.7 | 0.5 | 27.1 | 3.1 | 0.2 | |
23066 / Gwynn / VA / 36 mi. | 51 | 240 | 21.3 | $55,121 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
23068 / Hallieford / VA / 35.2 mi. | 48 | 183 | 26.2 | $52,813 | 10.4 | 0.7 | 7.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
23119 / Moon / VA / 32.5 mi. | 45 | 124 | 36.3 | $37,143 | 8.6 | 0.0 | 7.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
23176 / Wake / VA / 39.9 mi. | 41 | 281 | 14.6 | $32,159 | 10.7 | 0.0 | 9.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
23050 / Dutton / VA / 34.3 mi. | 31 | 139 | 22.3 | $63,393 | 7.8 | 0.3 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
23092 / Locust Hill / VA / 41.9 mi. | 30 | 269 | 11.2 | $27,188 | 44.8 | 0.6 | 42.6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
23462 / Virginia Beach / VA / 18.3 mi. | 30 | 22,278 | 0.1 | $41,298 | 42.4 | 4.5 | 31.1 | 0.4 | 3.9 | |
23899 / Claremont / VA / 34.1 mi. | 26 | 130 | 20.0 | $36,667 | 18.1 | 0.7 | 13.7 | 2.3 | 0.0 | |
23079 / Jamaica / VA / 53.1 mi. | 25 | 121 | 20.7 | $30,938 | 40.6 | 0.4 | 37.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
23304 / Battery Park / VA / 8.3 mi. | 25 | 51 | 49.0 | $89,197 | 23.0 | 0.0 | 23.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
23064 / Grimstead / VA / 36 mi. | 20 | 93 | 21.5 | $37,833 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 0.0 | |
23070 / Hardyville / VA / 38.6 mi. | 12 | 119 | 10.1 | $64,815 | 5.4 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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