Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Herald Times Reporter, Manitowoc | ||||||||||
Manitowoc, Wisconsin | ||||||||||
Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.) | ||||||||||
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 | 5.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1993 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1992 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1991 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Herald Times Reporter, Manitowoc | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 99 | |||||||
2004 | 10.0 | 5.3 | 190 | |||||||
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, Gannett Co. (Va.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Herald Times Reporter, Manitowoc | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 99. | 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 40 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 15,658 ranks 594 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 Herald Times Reporter, Manitowoc | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.7 | 1,293 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 224 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.2 | 1,647 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 315 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 17 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 499 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.3 | 3,995 | ||||||||
White | 94.8 | 72,043 | ||||||||
Total | 76,038 | |||||||||
Home county: Manitowoc | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.6 | 1,343 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 227 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.0 | 1,666 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 338 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 17 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 540 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.0 | 4,131 | ||||||||
White | 95.0 | 78,756 | ||||||||
Total | 82,887 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Manitowoc. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Herald Times Reporter, Manitowoc | ||||||||||
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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54220 / Manitowoc / WI / 5.2 mi. | 8,695 | 16,707 | 52.0 | $40,337 | 7.1 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 3.2 | |
54241 / Two Rivers / WI / 3.4 mi. | 3,167 | 6,446 | 49.1 | $42,157 | 4.4 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.8 | |
54230 / Reedsville / WI / 14.7 mi. | 694 | 1,669 | 41.6 | $48,158 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | |
54228 / Mishicot / WI / 9 mi. | 526 | 1,040 | 50.6 | $46,818 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
54247 / Whitelaw / WI / 9.3 mi. | 433 | 886 | 48.9 | $46,759 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
54245 / Valders / WI / 14.2 mi. | 363 | 967 | 37.5 | $48,800 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
53063 / Newton / WI / 13.4 mi. | 200 | 555 | 36.0 | $56,023 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
53042 / Kiel / WI / 22 mi. | 164 | 2,514 | 6.5 | $49,940 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
54110 / Brillion / WI / 21.6 mi. | 135 | 1,894 | 7.1 | $48,054 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
54232 / Saint Nazianz / WI / 16.7 mi. | 134 | 164 | 81.7 | $42,045 | 5.6 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
54227 / Maribel / WI / 13.7 mi. | 127 | 554 | 22.9 | $56,818 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
54214 / Francis Creek / WI / 7.1 mi. | 102 | 56 | 182.1 | $44,500 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
53015 / Cleveland / WI / 15.4 mi. | 96 | 961 | 10.0 | $52,019 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
54216 / Kewaunee / WI / 21.1 mi. | 85 | 2,295 | 3.7 | $42,577 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
54208 / Stangelville / WI / 19.1 mi. | 73 | 2,107 | 3.5 | $49,026 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
54215 / Kellnersville / WI / 11.3 mi. | 73 | 14 | 521.4 | $48,750 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
53014 / Chilton / WI / 27.9 mi. | 53 | 2,954 | 1.8 | $46,714 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
53061 / New Holstein / WI / 25.3 mi. | 25 | 2,028 | 1.2 | $45,860 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
54207 / Collins / WI / 17.7 mi. | 17 | 57 | 29.8 | $44,688 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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