Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Tucson Citizen | ||||||||||
Tucson, Arizona | ||||||||||
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 | 31.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 29.5 | |||||||||
2003 | 27.3 | |||||||||
2002 | 25.6 | |||||||||
2001 | 21.6 | |||||||||
2000 | 23.9 | |||||||||
1999 | 25.7 | |||||||||
1998 | 32.9 | |||||||||
1997 | 22.8 | |||||||||
1996 | 26.4 | |||||||||
1995 | 28.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 27.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 19.7 | |||||||||
1992 | 26.1 | |||||||||
1991 | 21.9 | |||||||||
1990 | 21.7 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1998 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Tucson Citizen | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 31.3 | 44.7 | 70 | |||||||
2004 | 29.5 | 44.7 | 66 | |||||||
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 Tucson Citizen | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 70. | 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 36 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 30,090 ranks 339 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 Tucson Citizen | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 36.4 | 180,025 | ||||||||
Black | 3.0 | 14,819 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.7 | 8,414 | ||||||||
Native-American | 2.1 | 10,495 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 490 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 6,897 | ||||||||
Non-white | 44.7 | 221,140 | ||||||||
White | 55.3 | 273,453 | ||||||||
Total | 494,593 | |||||||||
Home county: Pima | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 29.3 | 247,578 | ||||||||
Black | 2.9 | 24,047 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.1 | 17,486 | ||||||||
Native-American | 2.6 | 21,821 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 1,012 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 13,082 | ||||||||
Non-white | 38.5 | 325,026 | ||||||||
White | 61.5 | 518,720 | ||||||||
Total | 843,746 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Pima. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Tucson Citizen | ||||||||||
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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85710 / Tucson / AZ / 8.3 mi. | 2,641 | 24,729 | 10.7 | $35,296 | 23.9 | 15.2 | 3.8 | 0.6 | 2.1 | |
85714 / Tucson / AZ / 0 mi. | 2,517 | 4,462 | 56.4 | $24,835 | 91.4 | 87.1 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.3 | |
85712 / Tucson / AZ / 6.6 mi. | 2,397 | 16,137 | 14.9 | $27,699 | 29.2 | 19.3 | 3.8 | 1.1 | 2.8 | |
85711 / Tucson / AZ / 4.5 mi. | 2,068 | 17,965 | 11.5 | $30,909 | 39.6 | 29.5 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 2.7 | |
85706 / Tucson / AZ / 5.1 mi. | 2,033 | 20,190 | 10.1 | $27,369 | 77.3 | 70.4 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 0.5 | |
85713 / Tucson / AZ / 17.1 mi. | 1,922 | 15,946 | 12.1 | $26,884 | 72.8 | 62.1 | 5.8 | 2.8 | 0.9 | |
85705 / Tucson / AZ / 7.9 mi. | 1,693 | 24,067 | 7.0 | $23,047 | 42.8 | 32.4 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 2.4 | |
85719 / Tucson / AZ / 5.4 mi. | 1,675 | 18,206 | 9.2 | $23,324 | 31.8 | 18.9 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 5.8 | |
85745 / Tucson / AZ / 11.9 mi. | 1,553 | 11,959 | 13.0 | $42,457 | 56.8 | 49.1 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 1.8 | |
85741 / Tucson / AZ / 26.4 mi. | 1,546 | 11,909 | 13.0 | $45,370 | 25.0 | 18.8 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 2.2 | |
85746 / Tucson / AZ / 10 mi. | 1,485 | 14,020 | 10.6 | $36,773 | 71.0 | 56.7 | 2.4 | 9.8 | 0.8 | |
85730 / Tucson / AZ / 22.4 mi. | 1,461 | 14,710 | 9.9 | $38,779 | 32.9 | 20.2 | 6.4 | 0.7 | 3.1 | |
85704 / Tucson / AZ / 11.7 mi. | 1,414 | 12,206 | 11.6 | $45,465 | 16.6 | 11.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 2.2 | |
85737 / Tucson / AZ / 18.6 mi. | 1,291 | 12,427 | 10.4 | $61,390 | 12.0 | 7.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.0 | |
85718 / Tucson / AZ / 10 mi. | 1,129 | 12,127 | 9.3 | $63,756 | 13.6 | 7.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 3.1 | |
85715 / Tucson / AZ / 18.8 mi. | 1,127 | 6,846 | 16.5 | $54,016 | 17.0 | 10.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 2.6 | |
85750 / Tucson / AZ / 10.6 mi. | 889 | 10,843 | 8.2 | $66,411 | 14.0 | 7.2 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 3.7 | |
85749 / Tucson / AZ / 19 mi. | 850 | 6,708 | 12.7 | $78,026 | 12.3 | 7.7 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.9 | |
85747 / Tucson / AZ / 14.7 mi. | 816 | 4,255 | 19.2 | $56,674 | 26.8 | 16.7 | 4.9 | 0.5 | 2.3 | |
85716 / Tucson / AZ / 5.3 mi. | 773 | 16,466 | 4.7 | $27,943 | 30.3 | 20.7 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 2.8 | |
85614 / Green Valley / AZ / 23.9 mi. | 762 | 10,217 | 7.5 | $40,213 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
85748 / Tucson / AZ / 11 mi. | 653 | 6,113 | 10.7 | $59,250 | 18.5 | 10.8 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 2.8 | |
85742 / Tucson / AZ / 20.7 mi. | 644 | 7,838 | 8.2 | $59,888 | 19.5 | 14.0 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1.7 | |
85743 / Tucson / AZ / 18.8 mi. | 511 | 6,760 | 7.6 | $50,961 | 20.8 | 15.1 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 1.7 | |
85701 / Tucson / AZ / 3.9 mi. | 395 | 2,280 | 17.3 | $19,337 | 54.8 | 44.9 | 3.5 | 2.6 | 1.8 | |
85635 / Sierra Vista / AZ / 59.5 mi. | 327 | 12,092 | 2.7 | $36,349 | 34.0 | 18.0 | 7.8 | 0.7 | 4.0 | |
85739 / Tucson / AZ / 22 mi. | 281 | 5,125 | 5.5 | $47,001 | 17.2 | 14.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
85602 / Benson / AZ / 39.4 mi. | 191 | 3,739 | 5.1 | $30,491 | 18.4 | 15.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
85629 / Sahuarita / AZ / 13.2 mi. | 152 | 2,768 | 5.5 | $45,578 | 31.9 | 29.2 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 0.5 | |
85653 / Marana / AZ / 33.5 mi. | 148 | 3,760 | 3.9 | $37,713 | 28.3 | 22.2 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 0.6 | |
85616 / Huachuca City / AZ / 47.2 mi. | 75 | 1,950 | 3.8 | $30,567 | 24.9 | 14.5 | 4.2 | 1.5 | 1.1 | |
85631 / San Manuel / AZ / 51.4 mi. | 68 | 1,489 | 4.6 | $40,154 | 48.6 | 45.8 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
85623 / Oracle / AZ / 30.5 mi. | 65 | 1,653 | 3.9 | $37,925 | 40.4 | 38.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |
85708 / Tucson / AZ / 3.3 mi. | 38 | 1,575 | 2.4 | $35,336 | 40.0 | 16.9 | 13.8 | 0.7 | 4.0 | |
85615 / Hereford / AZ / 64.5 mi. | 20 | 2,472 | 0.8 | $42,704 | 21.7 | 14.5 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.0 | |
85613 / Fort Huachuca / AZ / 51.3 mi. | 14 | 1,804 | 0.8 | $32,301 | 43.2 | 14.8 | 19.8 | 0.8 | 3.1 | |
85630 / Saint David / AZ / 51.5 mi. | 14 | 959 | 1.5 | $32,695 | 12.1 | 9.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
85638 / Tombstone / AZ / 60.9 mi. | 9 | 929 | 1.0 | $27,250 | 25.2 | 21.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |
85610 / Elfrida / AZ / 89.7 mi. | 1 | 481 | 0.2 | $24,213 | 39.5 | 36.1 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | |
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