Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Times Herald, Port Huron | ||||||||||
Port Huron, Michigan | ||||||||||
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 | 3.3 | |||||||||
2004 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2003 | 3.2 | |||||||||
2002 | 6.5 | |||||||||
2001 | 10.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 12.9 | |||||||||
1999 | 12.9 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | 9.7 | |||||||||
1996 | 14.8 | |||||||||
1995 | 20.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 19.4 | |||||||||
1993 | 17.9 | |||||||||
1992 | 9.7 | |||||||||
1991 | 10.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 10.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1995 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Times Herald, Port Huron | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 3.3 | 6.1 | 54 | |||||||
2004 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 103 | |||||||
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 Times Herald, Port Huron | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 54. | 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 50 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 28,522 ranks 358 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 Times Herald, Port Huron | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.4 | 4,809 | ||||||||
Black | 1.7 | 3,392 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 809 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 859 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 90 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 2,095 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.1 | 12,054 | ||||||||
White | 93.9 | 184,660 | ||||||||
Total | 196,714 | |||||||||
Home county: St. Clair | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.2 | 3,593 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 3,381 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4 | 663 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.5 | 742 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 81 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.2 | 1,882 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.3 | 10,342 | ||||||||
White | 93.7 | 153,893 | ||||||||
Total | 164,235 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is St. Clair. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Times Herald, Port Huron | ||||||||||
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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48060 / Port Huron Township / MI / 1.3 mi. | 8,401 | 16,138 | 52.1 | $33,336 | 14.0 | 3.9 | 6.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | |
48059 / North Lakeport / MI / 5.7 mi. | 3,194 | 5,740 | 55.6 | $48,837 | 5.2 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.1 | |
48040 / Marysville / MI / 5.6 mi. | 2,281 | 4,025 | 56.7 | $49,299 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
48079 / Saint Clair Township / MI / 10.6 mi. | 2,087 | 4,638 | 45.0 | $55,000 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
48074 / Smiths Creek / MI / 6.8 mi. | 1,330 | 3,117 | 42.7 | $47,585 | 4.2 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
48039 / Marine City / MI / 19.8 mi. | 973 | 3,142 | 31.0 | $43,330 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
48054 / East China Township / MI / 15.5 mi. | 964 | 2,604 | 37.0 | $59,268 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
48001 / Russell Island / MI / 23.6 mi. | 939 | 5,244 | 17.9 | $49,777 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
48450 / Lexington / MI / 16.8 mi. | 711 | 2,224 | 32.0 | $37,404 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
48422 / Croswell / MI / 19.8 mi. | 677 | 2,313 | 29.3 | $36,869 | 7.8 | 6.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
48049 / Ruby / MI / 6.2 mi. | 660 | 2,014 | 32.8 | $57,031 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
48097 / Yale / MI / 20.2 mi. | 649 | 1,876 | 34.6 | $45,000 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
48062 / Richmond Township / MI / 19.8 mi. | 543 | 3,013 | 18.0 | $53,894 | 5.8 | 3.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
48471 / Sandusky / MI / 33.6 mi. | 528 | 2,265 | 23.3 | $36,667 | 5.4 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.0 | |
48006 / Kenockee Township / MI / 12.8 mi. | 452 | 1,304 | 34.7 | $53,821 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
48041 / Riley Township / MI / 17.8 mi. | 319 | 1,532 | 20.8 | $57,500 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
48427 / Deckerville / MI / 36.9 mi. | 314 | 1,208 | 26.0 | $33,917 | 5.4 | 3.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
48014 / Mussey / MI / 23.1 mi. | 305 | 1,297 | 23.5 | $46,471 | 11.3 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
48064 / Casco Township / MI / 19 mi. | 297 | 1,616 | 18.4 | $52,361 | 4.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
48416 / Brown City / MI / 28.4 mi. | 276 | 1,835 | 15.0 | $41,097 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
48032 / Worth Township / MI / 11.1 mi. | 272 | 700 | 38.9 | $51,927 | 3.4 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
48027 / Wales Township / MI / 12 mi. | 259 | 1,025 | 25.3 | $51,716 | 5.2 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
48022 / Emmett Township / MI / 18 mi. | 253 | 808 | 31.3 | $53,810 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
48063 / Columbus Township / MI / 14.8 mi. | 232 | 1,533 | 15.1 | $61,063 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
48419 / Carsonville / MI / 29.9 mi. | 215 | 1,009 | 21.3 | $37,754 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
48469 / Port Sanilac / MI / 31.7 mi. | 210 | 683 | 30.7 | $30,040 | 4.1 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.6 | |
48023 / Ira Township / MI / 21.5 mi. | 171 | 2,683 | 6.4 | $45,625 | 3.9 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
48453 / Marlette / MI / 36.1 mi. | 164 | 1,940 | 8.5 | $37,959 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
48047 / New Baltimore / MI / 26.4 mi. | 155 | 11,624 | 1.3 | $62,348 | 7.0 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
48002 / Berville / MI / 23.1 mi. | 146 | 1,050 | 13.9 | $61,157 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
48466 / Peck / MI / 25.3 mi. | 144 | 578 | 24.9 | $37,813 | 4.9 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
48401 / Applegate / MI / 25.3 mi. | 115 | 564 | 20.4 | $39,500 | 4.9 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
48028 / Harsens Island / MI / 27.9 mi. | 102 | 595 | 17.1 | $55,720 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
48444 / Imlay City / MI / 30.2 mi. | 97 | 3,203 | 3.0 | $42,831 | 13.7 | 11.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.7 | |
48454 / Melvin / MI / 22.5 mi. | 85 | 410 | 20.7 | $45,139 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
48441 / Harbor Beach / MI / 53.9 mi. | 81 | 1,799 | 4.5 | $33,116 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |
48003 / Almont Township / MI / 29.1 mi. | 55 | 1,946 | 2.8 | $63,971 | 4.7 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
48472 / Snover / MI / 41.8 mi. | 54 | 707 | 7.6 | $36,379 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
48005 / Armada Township / MI / 24.8 mi. | 42 | 1,719 | 2.4 | $68,783 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
48050 / New Haven / MI / 21.8 mi. | 37 | 469 | 7.9 | $61,607 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
48051 / New Baltimore / MI / 26.5 mi. | 30 | 4,663 | 0.6 | $59,429 | 8.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.8 | |
48048 / New Haven / MI / 24.7 mi. | 24 | 1,925 | 1.2 | $47,226 | 28.0 | 3.5 | 20.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
48465 / Palms / MI / 41.8 mi. | 23 | 246 | 9.3 | $35,875 | 7.3 | 6.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
48434 / Forestville / MI / 43.6 mi. | 16 | 48 | 33.3 | $29,375 | 8.5 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
48456 / Minden City / MI / 45.6 mi. | 11 | 385 | 2.9 | $32,500 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
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