Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Oshkosh Northwestern | ||||||||||
Oshkosh, 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 | 12.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 7.7 | |||||||||
2003 | 4.5 | |||||||||
2002 | 4.2 | |||||||||
2001 | 7.4 | |||||||||
2000 | 12.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Oshkosh Northwestern | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 12.0 | 5.6 | 216 | |||||||
2004 | 7.7 | 5.6 | 138 | |||||||
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 Oshkosh Northwestern | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 216. | 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 19 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 21,517 ranks 448 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 Oshkosh Northwestern | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.8 | 2,395 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 1,565 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 2,218 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 470 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 45 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 926 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.6 | 7,619 | ||||||||
White | 94.4 | 129,111 | ||||||||
Total | 136,730 | |||||||||
Home county: Winnebago | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.0 | 3,065 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 1,725 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.8 | 2,875 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 678 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 58 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,202 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.1 | 9,603 | ||||||||
White | 93.9 | 147,160 | ||||||||
Total | 156,763 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Winnebago. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Oshkosh Northwestern | ||||||||||
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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54901 / Oshkosh / WI / 1.6 mi. | 5,312 | 12,977 | 40.9 | $36,324 | 10.0 | 1.8 | 3.2 | 0.5 | 3.6 | |
54902 / Oshkosh / WI / 5 mi. | 4,909 | 9,841 | 49.9 | $38,563 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 2.1 | |
54904 / Oshkosh / WI / 3.1 mi. | 3,550 | 6,791 | 52.3 | $57,615 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | |
54923 / Berlin / WI / 18 mi. | 1,100 | 3,381 | 32.5 | $40,714 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
54971 / Ripon / WI / 16.2 mi. | 1,031 | 4,042 | 25.5 | $40,923 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
54963 / Omro / WI / 9.7 mi. | 1,003 | 2,334 | 43.0 | $44,961 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
54982 / Wautoma / WI / 34.1 mi. | 730 | 2,846 | 25.7 | $35,305 | 6.4 | 4.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
54986 / Winneconne / WI / 11.2 mi. | 681 | 1,761 | 38.7 | $54,681 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
54941 / Green Lake / WI / 21.4 mi. | 295 | 1,259 | 23.4 | $43,450 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
54968 / Princeton / WI / 27.9 mi. | 289 | 1,233 | 23.4 | $35,893 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
54956 / Neenah / WI / 12.4 mi. | 286 | 14,703 | 1.9 | $50,618 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.0 | |
54970 / Redgranite / WI / 25.3 mi. | 269 | 1,200 | 22.4 | $34,352 | 4.7 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
54960 / Neshkoro / WI / 32.5 mi. | 215 | 1,143 | 18.8 | $37,418 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
54984 / Wild Rose / WI / 32.2 mi. | 188 | 1,335 | 14.1 | $34,566 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
53946 / Markesan / WI / 27.3 mi. | 186 | 1,749 | 10.6 | $41,085 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
54964 / Pickett / WI / 8.3 mi. | 154 | 347 | 44.4 | $50,781 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
54935 / Taycheedah / WI / 15.5 mi. | 150 | 18,653 | 0.8 | $43,295 | 7.0 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
54965 / Pine River / WI / 26.7 mi. | 117 | 514 | 22.8 | $39,375 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
54927 / Butte des Morts / WI / 8 mi. | 85 | 142 | 59.9 | $57,589 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
54985 / Winnebago / WI / 5.4 mi. | 80 | 0 | 0.0 | $0 | 24.5 | 2.9 | 19.1 | 2.1 | 0.0 | |
54947 / Winchester / WI / 14.3 mi. | 72 | 999 | 7.2 | $52,743 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
54930 / Richford / WI / 49.8 mi. | 71 | 627 | 11.3 | $35,606 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
54943 / Hancock / WI / 53 mi. | 55 | 751 | 7.3 | $39,071 | 7.3 | 4.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
54952 / Menasha / WI / 15.3 mi. | 55 | 9,472 | 0.6 | $42,809 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.4 | |
54940 / Tustin / WI / 18.6 mi. | 53 | 1,638 | 3.2 | $46,339 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
54979 / Van Dyne / WI / 6.3 mi. | 39 | 484 | 8.1 | $53,681 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
54974 / Rosendale / WI / 13.1 mi. | 37 | 579 | 6.4 | $51,927 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
54980 / Waukau / WI / 9.7 mi. | 26 | 70 | 37.1 | $41,042 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
54967 / Poy Sippi / WI / 18.6 mi. | 24 | 159 | 15.1 | $34,375 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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