Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Journal Times, Racine | ||||||||||
Racine, 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 |
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2005 | 9.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 7.4 | |||||||||
2002 | 6.9 | |||||||||
2001 | 8.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 6.5 | |||||||||
1999 | 6.3 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 13.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 9.4 | |||||||||
1995 | 12.5 | |||||||||
1994 | 3.3 | |||||||||
1993 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1992 | 2.8 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 2.6 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1997 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Journal Times, Racine | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 9.1 | 21.2 | 43 | |||||||
2004 | 10.0 | 21.2 | 47 | |||||||
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 The Journal Times, Racine | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 43. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 73 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 28,934 ranks 352 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 Journal Times, Racine | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 8.2 | 14,843 | ||||||||
Black | 10.8 | 19,500 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8 | 1,364 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 521 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 156 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 2,060 | ||||||||
Non-white | 21.2 | 38,444 | ||||||||
White | 78.8 | 142,988 | ||||||||
Total | 181,432 | |||||||||
Home county: Racine | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 7.9 | 14,990 | ||||||||
Black | 10.3 | 19,441 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7 | 1,385 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 541 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 156 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 2,080 | ||||||||
Non-white | 20.4 | 38,593 | ||||||||
White | 79.6 | 150,238 | ||||||||
Total | 188,831 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Racine. | ||||||||||
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 Journal Times, Racine | ||||||||||
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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53402 / Racine / WI / 7.9 mi. | 5,724 | 12,744 | 44.9 | $51,900 | 15.0 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
53405 / Racine / WI / 2.8 mi. | 5,177 | 10,233 | 50.6 | $45,815 | 18.2 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
53406 / Racine / WI / 3.8 mi. | 4,929 | 9,254 | 53.3 | $48,207 | 15.8 | 4.5 | 8.6 | 0.2 | 1.2 | |
53403 / Racine / WI / 0 mi. | 4,763 | 10,412 | 45.7 | $36,670 | 45.9 | 15.4 | 27.9 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
53404 / Racine / WI / 5.2 mi. | 1,979 | 5,788 | 34.2 | $32,871 | 52.6 | 21.8 | 28.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
53105 / Burlington / WI / 25.8 mi. | 1,930 | 10,239 | 18.8 | $52,251 | 4.7 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
53177 / Sturtevant / WI / 6 mi. | 1,185 | 2,245 | 52.8 | $52,056 | 18.6 | 5.0 | 11.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
53182 / Union Grove / WI / 11.1 mi. | 918 | 2,879 | 31.9 | $51,271 | 6.2 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
53126 / Franksville / WI / 11.5 mi. | 783 | 2,224 | 35.2 | $62,538 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.1 | |
53185 / Waterford / WI / 20.2 mi. | 569 | 6,053 | 9.4 | $64,828 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
53139 / Kansasville / WI / 15.1 mi. | 238 | 1,015 | 23.4 | $49,472 | 6.1 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | |
53108 / Caledonia / WI / 11.3 mi. | 228 | 1,203 | 19.0 | $61,149 | 3.6 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
53144 / Kenosha / WI / 6.6 mi. | 172 | 8,682 | 2.0 | $43,146 | 21.0 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 0.4 | 1.4 | |
53140 / Kenosha / WI / 4.8 mi. | 125 | 10,993 | 1.1 | $34,909 | 24.7 | 12.6 | 9.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
53167 / Rochester / WI / 20.9 mi. | 59 | 48 | 122.9 | $42,083 | 5.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | |
53142 / Kenosha / WI / 11.7 mi. | 41 | 10,802 | 0.4 | $53,824 | 10.3 | 4.9 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 1.5 | |
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