Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Columbian, Vancouver
Vancouver, Washington
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	1.6
2000	1.6
1999	0.0
1998	0.0
1997	2.2
1996	2.0
1995	2.1
1994	0.0
1993	0.0
1992	0.0
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 Columbian, Vancouver
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	N/A	13.2	N/A
2004	N/A	13.2	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 Columbian, Vancouver
		This paper
						Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 44 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 49,488 ranks 210 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 Columbian, Vancouver
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	4.7	17,056
Black	1.6	5,675
Asian and Pacific Islander	3.4	12,320
Native-American	0.8	2,817
Other non-white	0.2	552
Multi-racial	2.6	9,271
Non-white	13.2	47,691
White	86.8	313,936
Total		361,627
	Home county:  Clark
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	4.7	16,248
Black	1.6	5,628
Asian and Pacific Islander	3.5	12,218
Native-American	0.8	2,575
Other non-white	0.1	475
Multi-racial	2.6	8,960
Non-white	13.4	46,104
White	86.7	299,134
Total		345,238
The home county of this newspaper is Clark.
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 Columbian, Vancouver
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
98682 / Vancouver / WA / 4.8 mi.	4,591	14,394	31.9	$50,553	14.9	4.2	1.8	0.8	4.8
98661 / Vancouver / WA / 4.6 mi.	4,561	14,870	30.7	$32,975	21.4	9.7	3.0	0.9	4.0
98685 / Vancouver / WA / 3.9 mi.	3,784	7,758	48.8	$61,503	10.0	3.0	1.2	0.5	2.8
98662 / Vancouver / WA / 3.3 mi.	3,640	8,646	42.1	$47,623	13.8	4.2	1.8	0.8	4.5
98604 / Battleground / WA / 6.1 mi.	3,576	8,000	44.7	$56,055	6.6	2.9	0.4	0.7	0.8
98683 / Vancouver / WA / 7.9 mi.	3,557	11,397	31.2	$50,709	19.6	4.5	2.3	0.6	9.0
98665 / Vancouver / WA / 3.3 mi.	3,487	8,154	42.8	$43,162	15.4	7.3	2.3	0.7	2.4
98684 / Vancouver / WA / 6.4 mi.	3,142	7,476	42.0	$49,786	15.1	4.4	2.0	0.7	5.2
98607 / Camas / WA / 10.6 mi.	2,861	6,380	44.8	$61,759	9.0	2.6	0.6	0.6	3.2
98664 / Vancouver / WA / 5.9 mi.	2,814	8,211	34.3	$45,909	14.6	4.9	2.2	0.7	4.0
98686 / Vancouver / WA / 1.6 mi.	2,335	4,900	47.7	$58,394	10.6	4.6	1.0	0.6	2.3
98663 / Vancouver / WA / 4.7 mi.	2,062	5,755	35.8	$39,022	14.6	6.4	2.0	1.0	2.2
98660 / Vancouver / WA / 5.8 mi.	2,047	4,105	49.9	$30,585	14.4	6.2	2.3	1.3	1.7
98642 / Ridgefield / WA / 6.5 mi.	2,031	4,468	45.5	$60,625	6.9	2.4	0.4	0.7	1.4
98671 / Washougal / WA / 14.1 mi.	2,010	5,630	35.7	$46,695	6.7	2.3	0.3	1.0	0.9
98606 / Brush Prairie / WA / 5.7 mi.	1,088	2,687	40.5	$64,855	5.2	1.6	0.3	0.4	1.0
98674 / Woodland / WA / 14.7 mi.	933	3,226	28.9	$45,452	9.9	6.4	0.2	0.8	0.7
98629 / La Center / WA / 10.1 mi.	711	2,361	30.1	$53,060	7.7	3.5	0.3	0.7	1.0
98675 / Yacolt / WA / 12.1 mi.	500	1,399	35.7	$48,594	8.5	2.6	1.9	0.7	0.7
98601 / Chelatchie / WA / 10.4 mi.	287	765	37.5	$45,380	5.8	1.6	0.4	1.2	0.5
97217 / Portland / OR / 9.9 mi.	233	12,391	1.9	$38,442	37.6	9.0	17.2	1.2	4.9
98648 / Stevenson / WA / 31.6 mi.	157	1,133	13.9	$35,256	9.5	3.4	0.1	2.6	0.6
98610 / Carson / WA / 34 mi.	136	1,030	13.2	$34,031	12.0	4.8	0.5	2.8	0.4
98625 / Kalama / WA / 21.2 mi.	88	1,728	5.1	$45,083	5.5	1.9	0.4	1.0	0.5
98639 / North Bonneville / WA / 28.7 mi.	49	183	26.8	$38,875	8.6	0.6	0.4	1.1	3.2
98603 / Yale / WA / 19.3 mi.	44	263	16.7	$40,398	6.4	2.1	0.1	1.1	0.8
97218 / Portland / OR / 9.8 mi.	31	5,179	0.6	$37,011	42.7	18.8	10.0	1.0	8.7
98616 / Cougar / WA / 25.6 mi.	16	41	39.0	$21,250	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
97220 / Portland / OR / 11.2 mi.	2	10,469	0.0	$39,649	25.4	6.1	3.9	0.9	10.8
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