Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Janesville Gazette | ||||||||||
Janesville, Wisconsin | ||||||||||
Owner: Bliss 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 | |||||||||
2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
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 The Janesville Gazette | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 6.9 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 6.9 | 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, Bliss 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 The Janesville Gazette | ||||||||||
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 22,656 ranks 424 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 The Janesville Gazette | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 4.1 | 6,958 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 1,572 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 1,191 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 371 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 89 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,376 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.9 | 11,557 | ||||||||
White | 93.1 | 156,587 | ||||||||
Total | 168,144 | |||||||||
Home county: Rock | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.9 | 5,953 | ||||||||
Black | 4.6 | 6,943 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 1,230 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 376 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 143 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,778 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.8 | 16,423 | ||||||||
White | 89.2 | 135,884 | ||||||||
Total | 152,307 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Rock. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
The Janesville Gazette | ||||||||||
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 |
|
53545 / Janesville / WI / 2.4 mi. | 5,976 | 16,794 | 35.6 | $44,346 | 6.3 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
53546 / Janesville / WI / 2.4 mi. | 4,144 | 10,676 | 38.8 | $51,908 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
53563 / Milton / WI / 5.3 mi. | 1,527 | 3,522 | 43.4 | $52,320 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
53534 / Edgerton / WI / 8.2 mi. | 1,304 | 4,332 | 30.1 | $50,127 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
53115 / Delavan / WI / 18.8 mi. | 927 | 5,716 | 16.2 | $43,408 | 17.0 | 14.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
53121 / Elkhorn / WI / 22.1 mi. | 925 | 5,721 | 16.2 | $46,719 | 6.1 | 4.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
53190 / Whitewater / WI / 15 mi. | 824 | 5,905 | 14.0 | $37,336 | 10.0 | 6.1 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
53511 / Beloit / WI / 11.7 mi. | 688 | 17,953 | 3.8 | $39,454 | 23.1 | 7.3 | 12.5 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
53536 / Evansville / WI / 13.3 mi. | 682 | 2,700 | 25.3 | $48,656 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
53520 / Brodhead / WI / 18.3 mi. | 432 | 2,485 | 17.4 | $43,569 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
53147 / Lake Geneva / WI / 27.8 mi. | 339 | 6,114 | 5.5 | $45,808 | 12.0 | 9.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
53525 / Clinton / WI / 11.4 mi. | 339 | 1,404 | 24.1 | $51,250 | 4.6 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
53538 / Fort Atkinson / WI / 16.2 mi. | 316 | 6,899 | 4.6 | $47,793 | 4.8 | 3.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
53576 / Orfordville / WI / 12.4 mi. | 295 | 805 | 36.6 | $50,117 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
53184 / Walworth / WI / 22.3 mi. | 227 | 1,332 | 17.0 | $48,814 | 6.3 | 5.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
53114 / Darien / WI / 15.8 mi. | 195 | 852 | 22.9 | $51,286 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
53585 / Sharon / WI / 18.4 mi. | 124 | 777 | 16.0 | $41,694 | 8.5 | 6.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
53537 / Footville / WI / 10 mi. | 120 | 129 | 93.0 | $49,167 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
53120 / East Troy / WI / 28.6 mi. | 89 | 3,258 | 2.7 | $55,657 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
53505 / Avalon / WI / 9.3 mi. | 74 | 138 | 53.6 | $58,269 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
53502 / Albany / WI / 20.9 mi. | 66 | 852 | 7.7 | $44,621 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
53125 / Fontana / WI / 23.3 mi. | 58 | 843 | 6.9 | $54,743 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
53191 / Williams Bay / WI / 23.7 mi. | 58 | 948 | 6.1 | $53,011 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
53549 / Jefferson / WI / 21.4 mi. | 56 | 3,752 | 1.5 | $43,715 | 7.1 | 5.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
53156 / Palmyra / WI / 22.7 mi. | 37 | 1,139 | 3.2 | $47,907 | 6.9 | 5.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
53566 / Monroe / WI / 30.9 mi. | 18 | 6,082 | 0.3 | $39,624 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
File | wi_the_janesville_gazette | |||||||||
Time | 5/14/05 2:02 PM | |||||||||
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