The Times Argus, Barre... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

The Times Argus, Barre

Barre, Vermont

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

Did not report

2003

Did not report

2002

Did not report

2001

Did not report

2000

Did not report

1999

4.5

1998

5.6

1997

7.1

1996

Did not report

1995

Did not report

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1997

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Times Argus, Barre

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

3.6

N/A

2004

N/A

3.6

N/A

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.)

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for The Times Argus, Barre

This paper

Peer group

The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 10,343 ranks 772 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 Times Argus, Barre

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.1

808

Black

0.4

283

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.6

390

Native-American

0.3

186

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

1.2

838

Non-white

3.6

2,580

White

96.4

68,457

Total

71,037

Home county: Washington

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.3

732

Black

0.5

261

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.6

334

Native-American

0.3

158

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

1.2

715

Non-white

3.9

2,261

White

96.1

55,778

Total

58,039

The home county of this newspaper is Washington.

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 Times Argus, Barre

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

05641 / Trow Hill / VT / 0 mi.

3,232

7,273

44.4

$36,176

3.3

1.6

0.3

0.2

0.4

05602 / Montpelier Junction / VT / 5.1 mi.

2,525

5,400

46.8

$40,331

4.2

1.1

0.5

0.3

0.7

05663 / West Berlin / VT / 8 mi.

599

1,959

30.6

$44,324

6.2

2.2

0.9

0.4

1.3

05676 / Waterbury / VT / 14.8 mi.

425

1,905

22.3

$43,165

2.3

0.4

0.2

0.1

0.6

05679 / Williamstown / VT / 6.1 mi.

371

1,135

32.7

$39,311

2.2

0.8

0.1

05060 / West Brookfield / VT / 18.4 mi.

370

1,857

19.9

$38,140

2.4

0.5

0.1

0.2

0.6

05667 / Plainfield / VT / 5.3 mi.

259

950

27.3

$40,387

4.9

1.0

0.5

05682 / Worcester / VT / 14.2 mi.

227

449

50.6

$41,985

3.1

0.9

0.2

0.4

0.0

05651 / East Montpelier / VT / 3.7 mi.

203

561

36.2

$43,935

3.8

1.4

0.8

0.1

0.2

05658 / Marshfield / VT / 10 mi.

195

543

35.9

$41,213

3.4

0.9

0.2

0.4

05673 / Waitsfield Common / VT / 15.8 mi.

174

1,035

16.8

$47,632

3.3

1.2

0.7

0.1

0.3

05038 / Chelsea / VT / 13.8 mi.

164

524

31.3

$32,813

2.1

0.4

0.2

0.7

0.1

05654 / Graniteville / VT / 3.1 mi.

161

490

32.9

$35,000

5.0

1.8

0.2

0.6

05649 / East Barre / VT / 3.5 mi.

146

150.5

$46,417

1.5

0.0

05677 / Waterbury Center / VT / 16 mi.

125

751

16.6

$51,515

3.1

1.0

0.3

0.2

0.7

05660 / South Duxbury / VT / 12 mi.

111

526

21.1

$51,736

2.5

1.2

0.1

0.2

0.5

05675 / Washington / VT / 9.2 mi.

108

366

29.5

$44,338

3.1

0.7

0.5

0.0

0.2

05674 / Warren / VT / 18 mi.

742

13.2

$47,438

3.0

1.0

0.2

0.4

0.2

05843 / South Walden / VT / 21 mi.

1,041

8.9

$33,468

2.4

0.4

0.1

0.8

0.0

05036 / Brookfield Center / VT / 11.5 mi.

399

22.8

$45,368

2.3

0.0

0.1

0.2

0.8

05647 / East Cabot / VT / 16.2 mi.

344

24.1

$44,135

4.0

0.1

0.2

0.1

05648 / Calais / VT / 12.9 mi.

185

44.3

$46,406

2.9

0.2

0.0

0.2

0.7

05664 / Northfield Falls / VT / 7.1 mi.

148

50.7

$40,078

1.2

0.3

0.0

05650 / South Woodbury / VT / 10.4 mi.

353

21.0

$45,347

5.6

1.4

0.4

0.5

0.1

05061 / Randolph Center / VT / 17.6 mi.

417

16.5

$51,458

3.0

0.6

0.4

0.3

0.6

05661 / Mud City / VT / 23.9 mi.

2,202

2.7

$34,271

3.1

0.7

0.3

0.4

0.5

05040 / East Corinth / VT / 16.4 mi.

139

38.1

$36,131

3.3

0.3

0.5

1.0

05678 / Websterville / VT / 2.6 mi.

119.5

$23,295

6.4

4.6

0.0

05640 / East Calais / VT / 10.3 mi.

266.7

$25,625

0.0

05033 / South Corinth / VT / 20 mi.

1,091

4.2

$37,500

2.6

0.6

0.4

0.3

05086 / West Topsham / VT / 12.1 mi.

300

15.0

$36,875

2.4

0.7

0.5

0.4

0.3

05819 / West Waterford / VT / 26.2 mi.

3,824

1.0

$32,357

4.2

1.0

0.5

0.7

0.6

05669 / West Braintree / VT / 13.2 mi.

186

21.0

$37,321

5.9

1.7

0.4

0.0

05046 / Groton / VT / 11.2 mi.

467

8.1

$34,615

3.8

0.3

0.1

1.3

0.0

05672 / Stowe / VT / 20.7 mi.

1,915

2.0

$52,378

3.1

1.1

0.3

0.4

05851 / Wheelock / VT / 31.7 mi.

2,361

1.5

$32,924

2.6

0.4

0.2

0.5

0.6

05681 / Woodbury / VT / 16.6 mi.

108

26.9

$31,000

13.4

0.0

0.4

2.2

05666 / North Montpelier / VT / 4.1 mi.

85.7

$35,250

3.8

0.0

05828 / Danville Center / VT / 23.7 mi.

795

2.9

$42,204

1.4

0.4

0.2

0.3

0.2

05826 / East Craftsbury / VT / 29.5 mi.

339

2.9

$32,679

4.9

1.2

0.5

0.1

0.6

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