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Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Cape Cod Times, Hyannis | ||||||||||
Hyannis, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
Owner: Dow Jones (N.Y.) | ||||||||||
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 | 1.5 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 7.2 | |||||||||
2002 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2001 | 2.8 | |||||||||
2000 | 2.9 | |||||||||
1999 | 3.2 | |||||||||
1998 | 4.9 | |||||||||
1997 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1996 | 4.8 | |||||||||
1995 | 3.5 | |||||||||
1994 | 3.8 | |||||||||
1993 | 2.2 | |||||||||
1992 | 1.9 | |||||||||
1991 | 1.7 | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2003 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Cape Cod Times, Hyannis | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 1.5 | 6.6 | 23 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 6.6 | 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, Dow Jones (N.Y.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 53. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Cape Cod Times, Hyannis | ||||||||||
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This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 23. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 76 out of 90 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska, with a 9.9 percent non-white staff in a community that is 8.3 percent non-white. Its index is 119. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 50,896 ranks 199 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 Cape Cod Times, Hyannis | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | ![]() |
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Hispanic | 1.3 | 3,016 | ||||||||
Black | 1.7 | 3,883 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 1,422 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 1,153 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.9 | 1,899 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 3,509 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.6 | 14,882 | ||||||||
White | 93.4 | 209,542 | ||||||||
Total | 224,424 | |||||||||
Home county: Barnstable | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | ![]() |
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Hispanic | 1.4 | 3,000 | ||||||||
Black | 1.7 | 3,848 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 1,413 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 1,148 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.8 | 1,842 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.6 | 3,461 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.6 | 14,712 | ||||||||
White | 93.4 | 207,518 | ||||||||
Total | 222,230 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Barnstable. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Cape Cod Times, Hyannis | ||||||||||
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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02601 / Hyannis / MA / 0 mi. | 4,050 | 6,822 | 59.4 | $32,199 | 18.4 | 3.1 | 5.9 | 0.9 | 1.4 | |
02664 / South Yarmouth / MA / 5.1 mi. | 3,400 | 4,714 | 72.1 | $37,929 | 5.6 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
02645 / Harwich / MA / 12.2 mi. | 2,427 | 4,068 | 59.7 | $42,677 | 5.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
02632 / Centerville / MA / 2.8 mi. | 2,388 | 4,638 | 51.5 | $50,666 | 5.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
02649 / Mashpee / MA / 10.7 mi. | 2,325 | 5,258 | 44.2 | $50,879 | 10.6 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 0.6 | |
02631 / Brewster / MA / 13 mi. | 2,290 | 4,060 | 56.4 | $48,640 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
02536 / East Falmouth / MA / 14.7 mi. | 2,269 | 7,853 | 28.9 | $47,494 | 9.0 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |
02563 / Sandwich / MA / 10.4 mi. | 2,129 | 4,037 | 52.7 | $57,815 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
02673 / West Yarmouth / MA / 2.6 mi. | 1,896 | 3,670 | 51.7 | $36,909 | 7.9 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
02660 / South Dennis / MA / 8.1 mi. | 1,764 | 3,342 | 52.8 | $42,864 | 4.6 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
02675 / Yarmouth Port / MA / 4.4 mi. | 1,707 | 3,151 | 54.2 | $50,421 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
02653 / Orleans / MA / 18.2 mi. | 1,638 | 3,093 | 53.0 | $42,609 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
02540 / Falmouth / MA / 18.4 mi. | 1,603 | 4,252 | 37.7 | $46,708 | 5.6 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 1.4 | |
02532 / Buzzards Bay / MA / 16.7 mi. | 1,356 | 5,879 | 23.1 | $44,114 | 6.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | |
02648 / Marstons Mills / MA / 6.4 mi. | 1,350 | 2,735 | 49.4 | $52,142 | 5.9 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
02639 / Dennis Port / MA / 8.1 mi. | 1,266 | 1,568 | 80.7 | $34,811 | 11.8 | 2.9 | 4.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
02633 / Chatham / MA / 16.2 mi. | 1,111 | 2,090 | 53.2 | $45,817 | 4.6 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
02537 / East Sandwich / MA / 8.9 mi. | 1,054 | 2,224 | 47.4 | $66,166 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
02642 / Eastham / MA / 20.4 mi. | 1,008 | 2,396 | 42.1 | $42,618 | 4.4 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
02655 / Osterville / MA / 5.1 mi. | 935 | 1,859 | 50.3 | $52,500 | 4.8 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
02638 / Dennis / MA / 7.1 mi. | 920 | 1,759 | 52.3 | $51,699 | 4.3 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
02646 / Harwich Port / MA / 11.5 mi. | 728 | 973 | 74.8 | $37,315 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
02635 / Cotuit / MA / 8 mi. | 724 | 1,421 | 51.0 | $53,824 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
02668 / West Barnstable / MA / 4.9 mi. | 684 | 1,139 | 60.1 | $68,164 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |
02657 / Provincetown / MA / 28.1 mi. | 586 | 1,837 | 31.9 | $32,716 | 13.9 | 2.2 | 7.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
02559 / Pocasset / MA / 16.8 mi. | 538 | 1,476 | 36.4 | $48,156 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
02667 / Wellfleet / MA / 23.4 mi. | 490 | 1,303 | 37.6 | $43,365 | 3.9 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
02630 / Barnstable / MA / 2.8 mi. | 461 | 824 | 55.9 | $63,409 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
02556 / North Falmouth / MA / 17.2 mi. | 436 | 1,368 | 31.9 | $57,841 | 4.6 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
02644 / Forestdale / MA / 12.7 mi. | 416 | 1,258 | 33.1 | $61,981 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
02571 / Wareham / MA / 22.8 mi. | 388 | 4,073 | 9.5 | $40,988 | 13.1 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
02670 / West Dennis / MA / 6.4 mi. | 370 | 834 | 44.4 | $36,053 | 5.4 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
02671 / West Harwich / MA / 9.3 mi. | 325 | 484 | 67.1 | $36,711 | 4.8 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
02554 / Nantucket / MA / 29 mi. | 284 | 3,699 | 7.7 | $55,522 | 13.1 | 2.2 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 | |
02568 / Vineyard Haven / MA / 21.8 mi. | 279 | 4,082 | 6.8 | $42,386 | 10.7 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.6 | |
02659 / South Chatham / MA / 14 mi. | 267 | 558 | 47.8 | $36,989 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
02669 / West Chatham / MA / 15.8 mi. | 249 | 87 | 286.2 | $55,625 | 9.0 | 0.6 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 0.6 | |
02652 / North Truro / MA / 28.3 mi. | 248 | 556 | 44.6 | $39,423 | 4.9 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
02650 / North Chatham / MA / 17.2 mi. | 221 | 425 | 52.0 | $51,060 | 6.2 | 0.4 | 4.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
02360 / Plymouth / MA / 23.1 mi. | 210 | 18,422 | 1.1 | $54,677 | 5.9 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
02539 / Edgartown / MA / 23.4 mi. | 142 | 1,581 | 9.0 | $50,407 | 7.4 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
02666 / Truro / MA / 26 mi. | 125 | 349 | 35.8 | $46,985 | 6.4 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
02534 / Cataumet / MA / 16.3 mi. | 121 | 363 | 33.3 | $61,607 | 3.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
02672 / West Hyannisport / MA / 2.2 mi. | 105 | 128 | 82.0 | $76,467 | 10.5 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
02543 / Woods Hole / MA / 21.3 mi. | 80 | 385 | 20.8 | $50,446 | 5.9 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 1.0 | |
02661 / South Harwich / MA / 14.2 mi. | 72 | 5 | 1440.0 | $16,250 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
02542 / Buzzards Bay / MA / 14.4 mi. | 58 | 504 | 11.5 | $41,875 | 12.0 | 5.4 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
02647 / Hyannis Port / MA / 2.2 mi. | 40 | 46 | 87.0 | $58,542 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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