Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune | ||||||||||
Wisconsin Rapids, 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 | 11.1 | |||||||||
2004 | 8.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 13.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 12.5 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | 2003 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 11.1 | 4.6 | 244 | |||||||
2004 | 8.3 | 4.6 | 182 | |||||||
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 The Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 244. | 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 16 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 11,729 ranks 716 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 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.2 | 734 | ||||||||
Black | 0.2 | 145 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 987 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.9 | 525 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 15 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.7 | 400 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.6 | 2,806 | ||||||||
White | 95.5 | 58,913 | ||||||||
Total | 61,719 | |||||||||
Home county: Wood | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.9 | 709 | ||||||||
Black | 0.3 | 201 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 1,225 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 513 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 25 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 444 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.1 | 3,117 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 72,438 | ||||||||
Total | 75,555 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Wood. | ||||||||||
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 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune | ||||||||||
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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54494 / Wisconsin Rapids / WI / 10.9 mi. | 6,949 | 10,932 | 63.6 | $45,603 | 4.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.9 | |
54495 / Wisconsin Rapids / WI / 0 mi. | 1,908 | 3,268 | 58.4 | $34,435 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 3.1 | |
54457 / Nekoosa / WI / 10.4 mi. | 1,892 | 3,426 | 55.2 | $42,128 | 5.2 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 0.6 | |
54469 / Port Edwards / WI / 4.8 mi. | 455 | 702 | 64.8 | $47,850 | 7.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 3.9 | |
54475 / Rudolph / WI / 9.3 mi. | 327 | 584 | 56.0 | $46,339 | 4.0 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 2.0 | |
54489 / Vesper / WI / 5.1 mi. | 310 | 587 | 52.8 | $41,893 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.1 | |
54466 / Pittsville / WI / 17.6 mi. | 219 | 1,092 | 20.1 | $40,543 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
53934 / Friendship / WI / 29.5 mi. | 191 | 1,809 | 10.6 | $29,934 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
53910 / Adams / WI / 35.7 mi. | 134 | 1,423 | 9.4 | $30,000 | 3.6 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
54613 / Arkdale / WI / 22.6 mi. | 124 | 784 | 15.8 | $30,265 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
54410 / Arpin / WI / 11.1 mi. | 80 | 727 | 11.0 | $40,887 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
54454 / Milladore / WI / 14.1 mi. | 48 | 445 | 10.8 | $46,957 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
54646 / Necedah / WI / 22.4 mi. | 45 | 1,369 | 3.3 | $33,185 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
54413 / Babcock / WI / 14.4 mi. | 38 | 95 | 40.0 | $36,250 | 5.5 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 0.0 | |
54443 / Junction City / WI / 17.2 mi. | 30 | 843 | 3.6 | $49,537 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
54943 / Hancock / WI / 25.4 mi. | 30 | 751 | 4.0 | $39,071 | 7.3 | 4.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
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