Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Inter-Mountain, Elkins | ||||||||||
Elkins, West Virginia | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | 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 Inter-Mountain, Elkins | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Inter-Mountain, Elkins | ||||||||||
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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 11,039 ranks 740 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 Inter-Mountain, Elkins | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 421 | ||||||||
Black | 0.7 | 522 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 229 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 206 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 23 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 462 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.5 | 1,863 | ||||||||
White | 97.5 | 72,665 | ||||||||
Total | 74,528 | |||||||||
Home county: Randolph | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 191 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 296 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 110 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.1 | 40 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 16 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 130 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.8 | 783 | ||||||||
White | 97.2 | 27,479 | ||||||||
Total | 28,262 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Randolph. | ||||||||||
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 Inter-Mountain, Elkins | ||||||||||
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 |
|
26241 / Elkins / WV / 0 mi. | 3,694 | 5,878 | 62.8 | $29,487 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
26201 / Buckhannon / WV / 20.7 mi. | 1,221 | 7,345 | 16.6 | $28,405 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
26250 / Belington / WV / 9.5 mi. | 551 | 1,789 | 30.8 | $22,648 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
26253 / Beverly / WV / 10.4 mi. | 540 | 1,470 | 36.7 | $28,288 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
26287 / Parsons / WV / 18.7 mi. | 500 | 1,385 | 36.1 | $27,060 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
26416 / Philippi / WV / 21.5 mi. | 451 | 2,747 | 16.4 | $26,687 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | |
26280 / Mill Creek / WV / 18.3 mi. | 361 | 811 | 44.5 | $27,661 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
26260 / Davis / WV / 24.7 mi. | 219 | 485 | 45.2 | $28,438 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
26283 / Montrose / WV / 12.2 mi. | 219 | 660 | 33.2 | $26,711 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
26270 / Harman / WV / 15.7 mi. | 146 | 385 | 37.9 | $23,375 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26847 / Petersburg / WV / 36.7 mi. | 130 | 2,420 | 5.4 | $28,510 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
26294 / Valley Head / WV / 31.4 mi. | 127 | 317 | 40.1 | $20,795 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26273 / Huttonsville / WV / 22.4 mi. | 121 | 262 | 46.2 | $24,643 | 13.0 | 0.7 | 12.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
26293 / Valley Bend / WV / 11.3 mi. | 115 | 215 | 53.5 | $31,250 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26269 / Hambleton / WV / 17.6 mi. | 113 | 393 | 28.8 | $29,886 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
26257 / Coalton / WV / 9.9 mi. | 108 | 304 | 35.5 | $29,196 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
26209 / Snowshoe / WV / 39.7 mi. | 102 | 96 | 106.3 | $44,250 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
26292 / Thomas / WV / 22.2 mi. | 100 | 344 | 29.1 | $21,136 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26285 / Norton / WV / 7.5 mi. | 96 | 105 | 91.4 | $21,667 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26218 / French Creek / WV / 24.4 mi. | 85 | 938 | 9.1 | $24,801 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
26836 / Moorefield / WV / 46.4 mi. | 85 | 2,515 | 3.4 | $29,626 | 5.1 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
26263 / Dryfork / WV / 21 mi. | 81 | 145 | 55.9 | $25,592 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
26275 / Junior / WV / 6.9 mi. | 79 | 260 | 30.4 | $21,389 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
26259 / Dailey / WV / 10.7 mi. | 76 | 48 | 158.3 | $35,962 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
26254 / Bowden / WV / 9.8 mi. | 72 | 149 | 48.3 | $38,462 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
26276 / Kerens / WV / 7.5 mi. | 72 | 137 | 52.6 | $35,156 | 6.0 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.1 | |
26405 / Moatsville / WV / 19.9 mi. | 72 | 464 | 15.5 | $25,295 | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 0.2 | |
26278 / Mabie / WV / 14.2 mi. | 66 | 149 | 44.3 | $19,375 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | |
26807 / Franklin / WV / 32.7 mi. | 66 | 1,273 | 5.2 | $31,362 | 5.3 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
24920 / Bartow / WV / 25.8 mi. | 60 | 145 | 41.4 | $20,750 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
26234 / Rock Cave / WV / 28.3 mi. | 60 | 508 | 11.8 | $21,515 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
26264 / Durbin / WV / 21 mi. | 55 | 272 | 20.2 | $23,942 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
26291 / Slatyfork / WV / 41.2 mi. | 55 | 56 | 98.2 | $55,156 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26238 / Volga / WV / 17.9 mi. | 54 | 335 | 16.1 | $21,250 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
26884 / Seneca Rocks / WV / 24.9 mi. | 54 | 209 | 25.8 | $30,000 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
24944 / Green Bank / WV / 37.7 mi. | 53 | 208 | 25.5 | $37,069 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
26814 / Riverton / WV / 24.7 mi. | 49 | 228 | 21.5 | $28,875 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
24915 / Arbovale / WV / 33 mi. | 47 | 250 | 18.8 | $21,836 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
26271 / Hendricks / WV / 15.4 mi. | 42 | 101 | 41.6 | $19,750 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | |
26296 / Whitmer / WV / 16.9 mi. | 35 | 83 | 42.2 | $21,726 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26804 / Circleville / WV / 26.4 mi. | 33 | 291 | 11.3 | $24,567 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
24934 / Dunmore / WV / 40.4 mi. | 30 | 226 | 13.3 | $22,212 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26267 / Ellamore / WV / 13.7 mi. | 30 | 51 | 58.8 | $16,500 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26282 / Monterville / WV / 34.8 mi. | 24 | 59 | 40.7 | $21,071 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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