Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Kenosha News | ||||||||||
Kenosha, Wisconsin | ||||||||||
Owner: United Communications (Wis.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 6.5 | |||||||||
2000 | 6.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 6.5 | |||||||||
1997 | 3.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 2.8 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2001 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Kenosha News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 15.5 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 15.5 | 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.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, United Communications (Wis.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 0. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Kenosha News | ||||||||||
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 The Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 25,322 ranks 391 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 Kenosha News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.5 | 10,666 | ||||||||
Black | 5.2 | 7,426 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 1,385 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 485 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 160 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 1,984 | ||||||||
Non-white | 15.5 | 22,106 | ||||||||
White | 84.5 | 120,791 | ||||||||
Total | 142,897 | |||||||||
Home county: Kenosha | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.2 | 10,757 | ||||||||
Black | 5.0 | 7,446 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 1,403 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 491 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 160 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 2,033 | ||||||||
Non-white | 14.9 | 22,290 | ||||||||
White | 85.1 | 127,287 | ||||||||
Total | 149,577 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Kenosha. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Kenosha News | ||||||||||
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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53142 / Kenosha / WI / 7.4 mi. | 6,195 | 10,802 | 57.4 | $53,824 | 10.3 | 4.9 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 1.5 | |
53140 / Kenosha / WI / 0 mi. | 4,796 | 10,993 | 43.6 | $34,909 | 24.7 | 12.6 | 9.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
53143 / Kenosha / WI / 5.9 mi. | 3,994 | 9,308 | 42.9 | $41,472 | 20.9 | 10.3 | 7.8 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
53144 / Kenosha / WI / 4.4 mi. | 3,575 | 8,682 | 41.2 | $43,146 | 21.0 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 0.4 | 1.4 | |
53158 / Pleasant Prairie / WI / 6.8 mi. | 2,134 | 3,954 | 54.0 | $65,703 | 7.9 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 1.4 | |
53104 / Bristol / WI / 10.8 mi. | 1,117 | 1,883 | 59.3 | $57,955 | 3.9 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
53168 / Salem / WI / 15.6 mi. | 989 | 2,942 | 33.6 | $58,338 | 5.2 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
53181 / Twin Lakes / WI / 22.6 mi. | 704 | 2,446 | 28.8 | $51,382 | 4.1 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
53403 / Racine / WI / 4.8 mi. | 533 | 10,412 | 5.1 | $36,670 | 45.9 | 15.4 | 27.9 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
53105 / Burlington / WI / 25.7 mi. | 307 | 10,239 | 3.0 | $52,251 | 4.7 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
53179 / Trevor / WI / 16.7 mi. | 273 | 1,796 | 15.2 | $47,778 | 4.4 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
53170 / Silver Lake / WI / 17.8 mi. | 243 | 738 | 32.9 | $51,850 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
60096 / Winthrop Harbor / IL / 9.6 mi. | 153 | 2,426 | 6.3 | $64,159 | 8.6 | 4.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.9 | |
60099 / Zion / IL / 11.2 mi. | 82 | 10,096 | 0.8 | $48,101 | 40.8 | 14.0 | 21.9 | 0.2 | 1.8 | |
53128 / Genoa City / WI / 27.5 mi. | 75 | 2,438 | 3.1 | $46,745 | 4.3 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
60002 / Antioch / IL / 15.1 mi. | 58 | 7,380 | 0.8 | $58,578 | 5.5 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
60087 / Waukegan / IL / 14.6 mi. | 56 | 8,052 | 0.7 | $52,468 | 47.2 | 29.5 | 12.2 | 0.3 | 3.3 | |
60083 / Wadsworth / IL / 13.9 mi. | 36 | 1,896 | 1.9 | $90,247 | 10.7 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 2.1 | |
53192 / Wilmot / WI / 19.3 mi. | 31 | 20 | 155.0 | $25,000 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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