Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Herald Palladium, St. Joseph | ||||||||||
St. Joseph, Michigan | ||||||||||
Owner: Paxton Media Group (Ky.) | ||||||||||
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 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 3.4 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 3.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 6.7 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1999 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Herald Palladium, St. Joseph | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 24.0 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 3.4 | 24.0 | 14 | |||||||
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, Paxton Media Group (Ky.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 18. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Herald Palladium, St. Joseph | ||||||||||
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 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 23,346 ranks 415 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 Herald Palladium, St. Joseph | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 5.1 | 8,991 | ||||||||
Black | 15.7 | 27,864 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1 | 1,874 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.6 | 1,081 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.2 | 278 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 2,611 | ||||||||
Non-white | 24.0 | 42,699 | ||||||||
White | 76.0 | 134,895 | ||||||||
Total | 177,594 | |||||||||
Home county: Berrien | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 3.0 | 4,888 | ||||||||
Black | 15.8 | 25,729 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2 | 1,904 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 647 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 230 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.4 | 2,257 | ||||||||
Non-white | 22.0 | 35,655 | ||||||||
White | 78.1 | 126,798 | ||||||||
Total | 162,453 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Berrien. | ||||||||||
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 Herald Palladium, St. Joseph | ||||||||||
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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49085 / Saint Joseph / MI / 0 mi. | 5,562 | 9,884 | 56.3 | $49,914 | 7.7 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 2.3 | |
49022 / Benton Harbor / MI / 4.3 mi. | 5,220 | 13,367 | 39.1 | $25,968 | 61.9 | 2.6 | 57.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
49127 / Stevensville / MI / 3.8 mi. | 2,213 | 3,665 | 60.4 | $51,977 | 4.9 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
49038 / Coloma / MI / 11.2 mi. | 1,424 | 4,037 | 35.3 | $38,942 | 6.2 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
49090 / South Haven / MI / 23 mi. | 1,044 | 5,918 | 17.6 | $37,008 | 19.5 | 5.6 | 10.7 | 0.9 | 0.5 | |
49103 / Berrien Springs / MI / 10.1 mi. | 912 | 4,300 | 21.2 | $39,801 | 32.0 | 8.1 | 14.0 | 0.4 | 6.2 | |
49098 / Watervliet / MI / 13 mi. | 890 | 2,418 | 36.8 | $40,187 | 7.1 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
49106 / Bridgman / MI / 9 mi. | 805 | 1,927 | 41.8 | $50,403 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
49047 / Dowagiac / MI / 17.9 mi. | 691 | 5,854 | 11.8 | $37,022 | 16.8 | 5.2 | 7.7 | 1.4 | 0.4 | |
49057 / Hartford / MI / 16.8 mi. | 653 | 2,306 | 28.3 | $35,551 | 23.4 | 18.6 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 0.2 | |
49101 / Baroda / MI / 7.8 mi. | 520 | 1,237 | 42.0 | $43,343 | 4.1 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
49111 / Eau Claire / MI / 9 mi. | 454 | 1,306 | 34.8 | $41,940 | 14.8 | 8.4 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | |
49107 / Glendora / MI / 15 mi. | 377 | 4,169 | 9.0 | $38,467 | 9.2 | 1.8 | 5.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
49120 / Niles / MI / 19 mi. | 363 | 14,090 | 2.6 | $37,526 | 11.5 | 2.4 | 6.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
49128 / Three Oaks / MI / 17.1 mi. | 319 | 1,900 | 16.8 | $42,158 | 3.7 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
49013 / Bangor / MI / 23.1 mi. | 288 | 1,968 | 14.6 | $31,624 | 20.6 | 8.9 | 9.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
49045 / Decatur / MI / 22.9 mi. | 255 | 2,089 | 12.2 | $37,089 | 18.0 | 11.9 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | |
49125 / Sawyer / MI / 12.9 mi. | 242 | 1,062 | 22.8 | $43,883 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
49126 / Sodus / MI / 5.5 mi. | 181 | 582 | 31.1 | $31,581 | 19.4 | 14.7 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
49117 / New Buffalo / MI / 22.5 mi. | 155 | 1,883 | 8.2 | $42,482 | 5.2 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
49064 / Lawrence / MI / 22.5 mi. | 144 | 1,327 | 10.9 | $38,110 | 19.1 | 13.0 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | |
49113 / Galien / MI / 17.5 mi. | 125 | 781 | 16.0 | $39,417 | 4.6 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
49043 / Covert / MI / 17.6 mi. | 117 | 898 | 13.0 | $23,889 | 60.4 | 18.9 | 36.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
49102 / Berrien Center / MI / 12.1 mi. | 107 | 430 | 24.9 | $42,202 | 17.0 | 5.9 | 8.0 | 0.7 | 1.0 | |
49079 / Paw Paw / MI / 29.4 mi. | 84 | 4,836 | 1.7 | $46,223 | 7.2 | 3.1 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
49056 / Grand Junction / MI / 28.1 mi. | 65 | 1,462 | 4.4 | $32,276 | 15.7 | 9.3 | 3.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
49065 / Lawton / MI / 30.8 mi. | 44 | 2,223 | 2.0 | $45,088 | 9.3 | 6.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
49129 / Union Pier / MI / 18.6 mi. | 40 | 339 | 11.8 | $51,406 | 15.4 | 2.1 | 10.9 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
49119 / New Troy / MI / 12.8 mi. | 35 | 48 | 72.9 | $25,417 | 8.0 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 | |
49116 / Lakeside / MI / 16.9 mi. | 27 | 125 | 21.6 | $64,167 | 8.0 | 0.4 | 7.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
49408 / Fennville / MI / 36 mi. | 25 | 3,403 | 0.7 | $43,292 | 21.9 | 18.9 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
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