Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Daily Register, Portage | ||||||||||
Portage, 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 Register, Portage | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 6.3 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 5.3 | 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 Register, Portage | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 5,221 ranks 1124 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 Register, Portage | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
|||||||
Hispanic | 2.2 | 635 | ||||||||
Black | 1.3 | 383 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 132 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 88 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 27 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 265 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.3 | 1,530 | ||||||||
White | 94.7 | 27,303 | ||||||||
Total | 28,833 | |||||||||
Home county: Columbia | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
|||||||
Hispanic | 1.6 | 827 | ||||||||
Black | 0.8 | 432 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 185 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 165 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 29 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 354 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.8 | 1,992 | ||||||||
White | 96.2 | 50,476 | ||||||||
Total | 52,468 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Columbia. | ||||||||||
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 Register, Portage | ||||||||||
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 |
|
53901 / Portage / WI / 0 mi. | 2,547 | 5,389 | 47.3 | $40,374 | 7.1 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
53954 / Pardeeville / WI / 7.2 mi. | 772 | 2,457 | 31.4 | $44,589 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
53949 / Montello / WI / 17.6 mi. | 275 | 2,460 | 11.2 | $34,422 | 13.9 | 4.1 | 6.7 | 1.9 | 0.3 | |
53955 / Poynette / WI / 9.9 mi. | 275 | 2,182 | 12.6 | $50,839 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
53960 / Rio / WI / 12 mi. | 230 | 1,195 | 19.2 | $47,150 | 2.9 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
53964 / Westfield / WI / 25.3 mi. | 198 | 1,264 | 15.7 | $32,477 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
53930 / Endeavor / WI / 11.2 mi. | 120 | 457 | 26.3 | $45,592 | 4.8 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
53923 / Cambria / WI / 17.1 mi. | 95 | 770 | 12.3 | $40,165 | 4.9 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
53952 / Oxford / WI / 18.5 mi. | 86 | 1,225 | 7.0 | $37,021 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
53965 / Wisconsin Dells / WI / 18 mi. | 73 | 3,651 | 2.0 | $39,162 | 5.9 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 2.9 | 0.3 | |
53969 / Wyocena / WI / 8.3 mi. | 64 | 53 | 120.8 | $41,250 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
53926 / Dalton / WI / 14.4 mi. | 43 | 458 | 9.4 | $37,009 | 3.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
53925 / Columbus / WI / 24.6 mi. | 39 | 2,910 | 1.3 | $47,712 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
53911 / Arlington / WI / 17.1 mi. | 32 | 399 | 8.0 | $50,673 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
53932 / Fall River / WI / 22.4 mi. | 32 | 751 | 4.3 | $50,038 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
53555 / Lodi / WI / 14.5 mi. | 29 | 3,041 | 1.0 | $55,719 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
53920 / Briggsville / WI / 10.3 mi. | 27 | 205 | 13.2 | $36,471 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
File | wi_daily_register__portage | |||||||||
Time | 5/22/05 10:42 AM | |||||||||
Page | 1124 | |||||||||
Member | 150939 |