Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Times West Virginian, Fairmont | ||||||||||
Fairmont, West Virginia | ||||||||||
Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 4.5 | |||||||||
1996 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Times West Virginian, Fairmont | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 5.2 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 5.2 | N/A | |||||||
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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Times West Virginian, Fairmont | ||||||||||
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 11,264 ranks 730 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 Times West Virginian, Fairmont | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 409 | ||||||||
Black | 3.0 | 1,841 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 247 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 113 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 36 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 530 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.2 | 3,176 | ||||||||
White | 94.8 | 57,428 | ||||||||
Total | 60,604 | |||||||||
Home county: Marion | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.7 | 394 | ||||||||
Black | 3.2 | 1,816 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 233 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 107 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 36 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 504 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.5 | 3,090 | ||||||||
White | 94.5 | 53,508 | ||||||||
Total | 56,598 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Marion. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Times West Virginian, Fairmont | ||||||||||
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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26554 / White Hall / WV / 0 mi. | 7,356 | 17,379 | 42.3 | $29,200 | 6.6 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
26582 / Mannington / WV / 10.1 mi. | 823 | 2,040 | 40.3 | $27,481 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
26588 / Rivesville / WV / 3.9 mi. | 399 | 1,035 | 38.6 | $28,095 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
26354 / Grafton / WV / 10.7 mi. | 346 | 4,264 | 8.1 | $26,145 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
26571 / Farmington / WV / 5.6 mi. | 317 | 1,028 | 30.8 | $24,638 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
26570 / Fairview / WV / 11 mi. | 309 | 1,181 | 26.2 | $31,679 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
26559 / Barrackville / WV / 1.9 mi. | 247 | 430 | 57.4 | $33,333 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
26591 / Worthington / WV / 7.5 mi. | 193 | 607 | 31.8 | $23,100 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
26431 / Shinnston / WV / 9.3 mi. | 160 | 2,500 | 6.4 | $28,051 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
26330 / Bridgeport / WV / 13.1 mi. | 152 | 5,025 | 3.0 | $44,566 | 3.6 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | |
26505 / Star City / WV / 14.3 mi. | 138 | 13,687 | 1.0 | $20,440 | 12.0 | 1.4 | 3.8 | 0.1 | 4.9 | |
26301 / Stonewood / WV / 16 mi. | 99 | 13,361 | 0.7 | $27,182 | 5.2 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
26574 / Grant Town / WV / 5.4 mi. | 81 | 293 | 27.6 | $25,083 | 8.7 | 0.6 | 7.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
26576 / Idamay / WV / 5.5 mi. | 65 | 91 | 71.4 | $35,769 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26585 / Metz / WV / 16.9 mi. | 62 | 237 | 26.2 | $31,875 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
26587 / Rachel / WV / 7.9 mi. | 60 | 179 | 33.5 | $33,571 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
26563 / Carolina / WV / 6.1 mi. | 56 | 181 | 30.9 | $37,813 | 18.2 | 0.2 | 16.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
26575 / Hundred / WV / 21.3 mi. | 52 | 366 | 14.2 | $24,063 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26568 / Enterprise / WV / 10.3 mi. | 35 | 225 | 15.6 | $27,277 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
26562 / Coburn / WV / 17.4 mi. | 24 | 322 | 7.5 | $29,427 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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