Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Daily Citizen, Beaver Dam | ||||||||||
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin | ||||||||||
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 Daily Citizen, Beaver Dam | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 6.5 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 6.5 | 0 | |||||||
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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Daily Citizen, Beaver Dam | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | 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 159 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 10,315 ranks 774 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 Citizen, Beaver Dam | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.5 | 1,803 | ||||||||
Black | 2.9 | 2,088 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 250 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 270 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 20 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 329 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.5 | 4,760 | ||||||||
White | 93.5 | 68,441 | ||||||||
Total | 73,201 | |||||||||
Home county: Dodge | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.6 | 2,188 | ||||||||
Black | 2.4 | 2,095 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 318 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 322 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 29 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.4 | 382 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.2 | 5,334 | ||||||||
White | 93.8 | 80,563 | ||||||||
Total | 85,897 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Dodge. | ||||||||||
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 Citizen, Beaver Dam | ||||||||||
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 |
|
53916 / Beaver Dam / WI / 0 mi. | 4,977 | 8,556 | 58.2 | $41,615 | 5.6 | 3.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
53032 / Horicon / WI / 11.7 mi. | 841 | 1,925 | 43.7 | $51,268 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
53050 / Mayville / WI / 15.7 mi. | 672 | 2,593 | 25.9 | $43,540 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
53039 / Juneau / WI / 10.2 mi. | 632 | 1,651 | 38.3 | $46,038 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
53963 / Waupun / WI / 13.2 mi. | 551 | 4,206 | 13.1 | $42,745 | 14.3 | 2.7 | 10.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
53925 / Columbus / WI / 12.8 mi. | 543 | 2,910 | 18.7 | $47,712 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
53956 / Randolph / WI / 9.5 mi. | 534 | 1,220 | 43.8 | $44,333 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
53933 / Fox Lake / WI / 8.9 mi. | 490 | 1,142 | 42.9 | $40,068 | 19.6 | 3.4 | 14.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | |
53579 / Reeseville / WI / 12 mi. | 172 | 717 | 24.0 | $44,891 | 3.9 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
53922 / Burnett / WI / 8.8 mi. | 171 | 408 | 41.9 | $52,955 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
53035 / Iron Ridge / WI / 16.6 mi. | 134 | 749 | 17.9 | $46,282 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
53932 / Fall River / WI / 12 mi. | 98 | 751 | 13.0 | $50,038 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
53557 / Lowell / WI / 8.3 mi. | 64 | 175 | 36.6 | $46,417 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | |
53923 / Cambria / WI / 16.1 mi. | 62 | 770 | 8.1 | $40,165 | 4.9 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
53935 / Friesland / WI / 13.9 mi. | 32 | 55 | 58.2 | $43,542 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
53091 / Theresa / WI / 21.3 mi. | 28 | 758 | 3.7 | $48,882 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
53946 / Markesan / WI / 19.2 mi. | 7 | 1,749 | 0.4 | $41,085 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
53919 / Brandon / WI / 19.2 mi. | 5 | 923 | 0.5 | $47,168 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
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