Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily World, Aberdeen | ||||||||||
Aberdeen, Washington | ||||||||||
Owner: Stephens Media Group (Donrey) (Nev.) | ||||||||||
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 | 11.8 | |||||||||
2004 | 11.8 | |||||||||
2003 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 10.5 | |||||||||
2001 | 5.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 5.3 | |||||||||
1999 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1998 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 11.8 | |||||||||
1996 | 11.8 | |||||||||
1995 | 11.1 | |||||||||
1994 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily World, Aberdeen | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 89 | |||||||
2004 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 89 | |||||||
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, Stephens Media Group (Donrey) (Nev.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 37. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Daily World, Aberdeen | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 89. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 48 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,151 ranks 641 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 Daily World, Aberdeen | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.9 | 3,731 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 213 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 1,215 | ||||||||
Native-American | 3.8 | 2,899 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 53 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.6 | 1,953 | ||||||||
Non-white | 13.3 | 10,064 | ||||||||
White | 86.7 | 65,822 | ||||||||
Total | 75,886 | |||||||||
Home county: Grays Harbor | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.9 | 3,258 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 205 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.3 | 857 | ||||||||
Native-American | 4.4 | 2,975 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 56 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 2.6 | 1,731 | ||||||||
Non-white | 13.5 | 9,082 | ||||||||
White | 86.5 | 58,112 | ||||||||
Total | 67,194 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Grays Harbor. | ||||||||||
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 Daily World, Aberdeen | ||||||||||
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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98520 / Aberdeen / WA / 0 mi. | 5,130 | 8,578 | 59.8 | $33,169 | 15.2 | 7.4 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 1.9 | |
98550 / Hoquiam / WA / 9.9 mi. | 2,657 | 4,607 | 57.7 | $32,104 | 12.2 | 4.9 | 0.3 | 3.5 | 1.1 | |
98563 / Montesano / WA / 28.4 mi. | 1,644 | 2,912 | 56.5 | $41,743 | 6.2 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 0.9 | |
98577 / Raymond / WA / 34.9 mi. | 881 | 2,612 | 33.7 | $31,826 | 13.8 | 5.6 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 3.9 | |
98541 / Elma / WA / 21.2 mi. | 855 | 3,448 | 24.8 | $35,423 | 10.3 | 3.6 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 1.2 | |
98569 / Ocean Shores / WA / 21.6 mi. | 836 | 1,990 | 42.0 | $32,331 | 8.4 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 1.3 | |
98537 / Cosmopolis / WA / 14.2 mi. | 554 | 719 | 77.1 | $39,750 | 8.5 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 1.1 | |
98595 / Westport / WA / 24.6 mi. | 513 | 1,319 | 38.9 | $32,218 | 8.5 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 0.8 | |
98586 / South Bend / WA / 37.5 mi. | 293 | 885 | 33.1 | $30,357 | 21.1 | 9.0 | 0.1 | 4.3 | 4.0 | |
98547 / Grayland / WA / 21.3 mi. | 251 | 798 | 31.5 | $27,464 | 6.9 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.3 | |
98557 / McCleary / WA / 24.7 mi. | 133 | 1,069 | 12.4 | $34,293 | 6.4 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
98587 / Taholah / WA / 30.4 mi. | 126 | 260 | 48.5 | $26,172 | 93.7 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 90.2 | 0.9 | |
98571 / Pacific Beach / WA / 16.3 mi. | 91 | 196 | 46.4 | $29,722 | 35.2 | 6.3 | 0.2 | 22.2 | 1.7 | |
98535 / Copalis Beach / WA / 16.9 mi. | 81 | 227 | 35.7 | $33,472 | 11.5 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 5.7 | 1.4 | |
98526 / Amanda Park / WA / 23.4 mi. | 75 | 159 | 47.2 | $29,500 | 31.2 | 14.9 | 0.0 | 14.2 | 0.2 | |
98568 / Oakville / WA / 29.3 mi. | 62 | 798 | 7.8 | $35,726 | 26.7 | 5.2 | 0.4 | 16.8 | 0.5 | |
98552 / Humptulips / WA / 8.8 mi. | 58 | 228 | 25.4 | $31,364 | 18.2 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 6.1 | 0.3 | |
98575 / Quinault / WA / 19.1 mi. | 53 | 75 | 70.7 | $47,778 | 19.9 | 13.1 | 0.0 | 5.2 | 0.5 | |
98590 / Tokeland / WA / 28.7 mi. | 50 | 188 | 26.6 | $32,857 | 21.2 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 16.3 | 0.7 | |
98536 / Copalis Crossing / WA / 15.3 mi. | 45 | 118 | 38.1 | $41,250 | 14.0 | 4.7 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 3.5 | |
98562 / Moclips / WA / 16.7 mi. | 42 | 93 | 45.2 | $19,375 | 30.2 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 21.4 | 0.0 | |
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