Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Cheyenne | ||||||||||
Cheyenne, Wyoming | ||||||||||
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 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 4.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 3.7 | |||||||||
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 Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Cheyenne | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 6.3 | 16.8 | 38 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 16.8 | 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.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Cheyenne | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 38. | 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 118 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 Enterprise Ledger, Alabama, with a 16.7 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.4 percent non-white. Its index is 68. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 15,564 ranks 598 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 Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Cheyenne | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 10.9 | 8,912 | ||||||||
Black | 2.5 | 2,015 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 814 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 554 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 97 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 1,325 | ||||||||
Non-white | 16.8 | 13,717 | ||||||||
White | 83.2 | 68,128 | ||||||||
Total | 81,845 | |||||||||
Home county: Laramie | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 10.9 | 8,897 | ||||||||
Black | 2.5 | 2,015 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.0 | 816 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.7 | 553 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 106 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 1,319 | ||||||||
Non-white | 16.8 | 13,706 | ||||||||
White | 83.2 | 67,901 | ||||||||
Total | 81,607 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Laramie. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Cheyenne | ||||||||||
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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82001 / FE Warren AFB / WY / 0 mi. | 6,891 | 14,000 | 49.2 | $35,080 | 18.0 | 10.8 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 1.2 | |
82009 / Iron Mountain / WY / 4.5 mi. | 5,455 | 10,337 | 52.8 | $54,591 | 10.6 | 6.2 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 1.2 | |
82007 / Cheyenne / WY / 4 mi. | 2,200 | 6,058 | 36.3 | $30,956 | 27.2 | 20.6 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | |
82201 / Wheatland / WY / 58.1 mi. | 260 | 2,675 | 9.7 | $35,114 | 6.0 | 4.7 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
82082 / Pine Bluffs / WY / 35 mi. | 236 | 676 | 34.9 | $33,672 | 8.1 | 6.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
82053 / Egbert / WY / 21.4 mi. | 163 | 364 | 44.8 | $40,795 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
82054 / Carpenter / WY / 21.3 mi. | 44 | 263 | 16.7 | $33,839 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
69145 / Kimball / NE / 55.4 mi. | 41 | 1,415 | 2.9 | $30,616 | 5.6 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
82050 / Albin / WY / 27.6 mi. | 24 | 94 | 25.5 | $38,750 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
82210 / Diamond / WY / 37.9 mi. | 21 | 160 | 13.1 | $37,885 | 7.3 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
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