Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Daily Independent, Ashland | ||||||||||
Ashland, Kentucky | ||||||||||
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 | |||||||||
2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 3.9 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1991 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Independent, Ashland | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 3.0 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 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, 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 The Daily Independent, Ashland | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation 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 18,678 ranks 510 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 Daily Independent, Ashland | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 0.8 | 1,005 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 1,480 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 329 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 236 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.0 | 52 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.6 | 823 | ||||||||
Non-white | 3.0 | 3,925 | ||||||||
White | 97.0 | 127,165 | ||||||||
Total | 131,090 | |||||||||
Home county: Boyd | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.1 | 558 | ||||||||
Black | 2.5 | 1,224 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 146 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 75 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 31 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 392 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.9 | 2,426 | ||||||||
White | 95.1 | 47,326 | ||||||||
Total | 49,752 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Boyd. | ||||||||||
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 Daily Independent, Ashland | ||||||||||
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 |
|
41101 / Ashland / KY / 0 mi. | 5,228 | 8,469 | 61.7 | $30,452 | 4.8 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
41102 / Ashland / KY / 5.4 mi. | 3,945 | 8,093 | 48.7 | $35,713 | 6.4 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
41129 / Catlettsburg / KY / 9.1 mi. | 1,579 | 3,895 | 40.5 | $34,827 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
41139 / Flatwoods / KY / 4.9 mi. | 1,421 | 3,620 | 39.3 | $31,454 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
41143 / Grayson / KY / 21.3 mi. | 1,307 | 5,188 | 25.2 | $28,796 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
41144 / Greenup / KY / 16.2 mi. | 1,174 | 3,982 | 29.5 | $28,779 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
41169 / Russell / KY / 5.2 mi. | 1,097 | 1,873 | 58.6 | $45,915 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.0 | |
41164 / Olive Hill / KY / 29.9 mi. | 883 | 5,090 | 17.3 | $23,553 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
41230 / Louisa / KY / 34 mi. | 732 | 4,325 | 16.9 | $22,513 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
41168 / Rush / KY / 14 mi. | 416 | 1,028 | 40.5 | $31,761 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
41175 / South Shore / KY / 21.7 mi. | 360 | 2,378 | 15.1 | $28,804 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
40351 / Morehead / KY / 45.8 mi. | 324 | 7,096 | 4.6 | $28,691 | 4.7 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
41183 / Worthington / KY / 6.8 mi. | 271 | 691 | 39.2 | $34,000 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
41171 / Sandy Hook / KY / 35.8 mi. | 254 | 1,493 | 17.0 | $20,245 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
45638 / Ironton / OH / 4.9 mi. | 199 | 9,011 | 2.2 | $26,938 | 4.4 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
41121 / Argillite / KY / 9.3 mi. | 190 | 559 | 34.0 | $32,679 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
41179 / Vanceburg / KY / 39.9 mi. | 104 | 3,185 | 3.3 | $20,793 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
41240 / Paintsville / KY / 51.8 mi. | 86 | 2,891 | 3.0 | $24,854 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
41180 / Webbville / KY / 23.6 mi. | 66 | 420 | 15.7 | $24,044 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
41141 / Garrison / KY / 29.6 mi. | 52 | 1,022 | 5.1 | $22,010 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
45680 / South Point / OH / 6 mi. | 46 | 5,167 | 0.9 | $28,407 | 6.6 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
41149 / Isonville / KY / 35.8 mi. | 39 | 236 | 16.5 | $16,042 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
41146 / Hitchins / KY / 21.8 mi. | 37 | 233 | 15.9 | $19,500 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
41124 / Blaine / KY / 32.3 mi. | 34 | 456 | 7.5 | $17,462 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | |
40313 / Clearfield / KY / 46.2 mi. | 29 | 976 | 3.0 | $21,438 | 4.5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
41465 / Salyersville / KY / 56.6 mi. | 29 | 4,784 | 0.6 | $20,117 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
41132 / Denton / KY / 15.4 mi. | 25 | 126 | 19.8 | $28,000 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
41174 / South Portsmouth / KY / 25.2 mi. | 24 | 306 | 7.8 | $24,083 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
41232 / Lowmansville / KY / 38.1 mi. | 14 | 187 | 7.5 | $27,292 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
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