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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 | ||||||||||
The Daily Telegram, Adrian | ||||||||||
Adrian, Michigan | ||||||||||
Owner: Liberty Group Publishing (Ill.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Daily Telegram, Adrian | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 10.8 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 10.8 | 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, Liberty Group Publishing (Ill.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 32. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Daily Telegram, Adrian | ||||||||||
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 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 15,374 ranks 602 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 Telegram, Adrian | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | ![]() |
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Hispanic | 7.0 | 6,913 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 2,036 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 447 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 321 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 81 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 926 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.8 | 10,724 | ||||||||
White | 89.2 | 88,343 | ||||||||
Total | 99,067 | |||||||||
Home county: Lenawee | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | ![]() |
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Hispanic | 7.0 | 6,884 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 2,033 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 445 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 322 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 80 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 938 | ||||||||
Non-white | 10.8 | 10,702 | ||||||||
White | 89.2 | 88,188 | ||||||||
Total | 98,890 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Lenawee. | ||||||||||
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 Telegram, Adrian | ||||||||||
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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49221 / Cadmus / MI / 0 mi. | 7,449 | 14,205 | 52.4 | $41,924 | 18.8 | 11.8 | 4.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
49286 / Tecumseh / MI / 8.3 mi. | 1,933 | 5,457 | 35.4 | $53,325 | 6.1 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | |
49228 / Blissfield / MI / 9.9 mi. | 892 | 2,166 | 41.2 | $42,018 | 7.1 | 6.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
49247 / Rollin / MI / 13.9 mi. | 797 | 2,267 | 35.2 | $41,239 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
49265 / Onsted / MI / 9.3 mi. | 640 | 1,781 | 35.9 | $60,688 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
49256 / Seneca / MI / 13.1 mi. | 531 | 1,562 | 34.0 | $41,853 | 5.5 | 3.7 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
49236 / Clinton / MI / 11.4 mi. | 512 | 1,827 | 28.0 | $52,604 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
49253 / Manitou Beach / MI / 11.8 mi. | 351 | 1,202 | 29.2 | $50,057 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
49229 / Britton / MI / 11.4 mi. | 330 | 1,061 | 31.1 | $52,071 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
49235 / Clayton / MI / 8.1 mi. | 302 | 725 | 41.7 | $42,583 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
49230 / Brooklyn / MI / 15.9 mi. | 237 | 3,782 | 6.3 | $49,428 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
49287 / Tipton / MI / 8.3 mi. | 211 | 712 | 29.6 | $55,500 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
49220 / Addison / MI / 14.5 mi. | 182 | 915 | 19.9 | $41,173 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
49279 / Seneca / MI / 8.3 mi. | 161 | 320 | 50.3 | $42,065 | 4.6 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
49238 / Deerfield / MI / 12.1 mi. | 160 | 611 | 26.2 | $50,458 | 5.1 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
49268 / Palmyra / MI / 6 mi. | 159 | 400 | 39.8 | $43,250 | 19.6 | 17.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
49248 / Jasper / MI / 8.9 mi. | 155 | 337 | 46.0 | $46,827 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
49276 / Riga / MI / 13.5 mi. | 60 | 349 | 17.2 | $54,769 | 9.3 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
49233 / Cement City / MI / 18.5 mi. | 39 | 553 | 7.1 | $42,198 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
49288 / Waldron / MI / 21.8 mi. | 35 | 514 | 6.8 | $35,278 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
43533 / Lyons / OH / 13.5 mi. | 29 | 559 | 5.2 | $41,736 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
49271 / Prattville / MI / 20.2 mi. | 23 | 833 | 2.8 | $40,357 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
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