Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Minot Daily News | ||||||||||
Minot, North Dakota | ||||||||||
Owner: Ogden Newspapers (W.V.) | ||||||||||
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 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 4.2 | |||||||||
1997 | 4.5 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1990 | 5.3 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1990 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Minot Daily News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 3.3 | 16.3 | 20 | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 16.0 | 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, Ogden Newspapers (W.V.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 12. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Minot Daily News | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 20. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 149 out of 259 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the 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 20,974 ranks 465 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 Minot Daily News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.3 | 1,531 | ||||||||
Black | 1.1 | 1,324 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 612 | ||||||||
Native-American | 11.7 | 14,106 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 55 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.3 | 1,613 | ||||||||
Non-white | 16.0 | 19,241 | ||||||||
White | 84.1 | 101,408 | ||||||||
Total | 120,649 | |||||||||
Home county: Ward | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.9 | 1,125 | ||||||||
Black | 2.2 | 1,262 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 503 | ||||||||
Native-American | 2.0 | 1,180 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 41 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.5 | 898 | ||||||||
Non-white | 8.5 | 5,009 | ||||||||
White | 91.5 | 53,786 | ||||||||
Total | 58,795 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Ward. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Minot Daily News | ||||||||||
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 |
|
58701 / South Prairie / ND / 0 mi. | 6,446 | 10,779 | 59.8 | $32,370 | 6.4 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 0.6 | |
58703 / Minot / ND / 2.4 mi. | 3,589 | 7,167 | 50.1 | $36,461 | 7.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 0.7 | |
58318 / Metigoshe / ND / 52.3 mi. | 646 | 1,601 | 40.3 | $30,515 | 4.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 0.2 | |
58368 / Silva / ND / 56.4 mi. | 583 | 1,675 | 34.8 | $27,176 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | |
58801 / Williston / ND / 100.2 mi. | 519 | 6,546 | 7.9 | $31,990 | 8.5 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 4.8 | 0.2 | |
58763 / Sanish / ND / 53.6 mi. | 389 | 979 | 39.7 | $28,568 | 70.1 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 64.6 | 0.2 | |
58341 / Wellsburg / ND / 65.9 mi. | 378 | 1,315 | 28.7 | $33,355 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
58748 / Kramer / ND / 39.6 mi. | 357 | 92 | 388.0 | $27,083 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
58790 / Velva / ND / 19.2 mi. | 339 | 613 | 55.3 | $31,705 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
58784 / Stanley / ND / 47.4 mi. | 337 | 748 | 45.1 | $24,745 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
58540 / White Shield / ND / 37.6 mi. | 320 | 928 | 34.5 | $31,285 | 12.6 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 0.2 | |
58704 / Minot AFB / ND / 12.4 mi. | 281 | 2,112 | 13.3 | $32,255 | 23.4 | 6.2 | 9.9 | 0.7 | 2.9 | |
58852 / Tioga / ND / 71.2 mi. | 278 | 692 | 40.2 | $31,089 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.0 | |
58316 / Belcourt / ND / 68.1 mi. | 259 | 1,977 | 13.1 | $23,269 | 96.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 95.4 | 0.0 | |
58722 / Burlington / ND / 6.5 mi. | 245 | 521 | 47.0 | $41,667 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.1 | |
58761 / Mohall / ND / 35.7 mi. | 245 | 497 | 49.3 | $31,300 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
58788 / Towner / ND / 38.9 mi. | 234 | 565 | 41.4 | $28,000 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
58730 / Crosby / ND / 96 mi. | 226 | 595 | 38.0 | $28,088 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
58770 / Parshall / ND / 40.4 mi. | 217 | 454 | 47.8 | $27,500 | 55.7 | 2.7 | 0.2 | 42.5 | 0.0 | |
58367 / Rolla / ND / 82.6 mi. | 216 | 764 | 28.3 | $31,534 | 32.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 28.2 | 0.4 | |
58329 / San Haven / ND / 64.7 mi. | 191 | 983 | 19.4 | $24,342 | 80.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 78.2 | 0.1 | |
58718 / Tagus / ND / 27.5 mi. | 191 | 365 | 52.3 | $29,464 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
58785 / Surrey / ND / 7 mi. | 191 | 356 | 53.7 | $42,898 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0.3 | |
58759 / Prairieview / ND / 26.4 mi. | 156 | 287 | 54.4 | $29,821 | 3.5 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | |
58781 / Sawyer / ND / 14.2 mi. | 149 | 277 | 53.8 | $29,808 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | |
58854 / Watford Cy / ND / 89.9 mi. | 140 | 987 | 14.2 | $30,102 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 0.0 | |
58741 / Simcoe / ND / 22.1 mi. | 134 | 237 | 56.5 | $27,000 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
58501 / Bismarck / ND / 93.8 mi. | 133 | 18,100 | 0.7 | $41,462 | 4.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 0.5 | |
58793 / Westhope / ND / 43.8 mi. | 128 | 318 | 40.3 | $28,073 | 2.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
58736 / Guthrie / ND / 44.4 mi. | 124 | 258 | 48.1 | $21,458 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58740 / Wolseth / ND / 18.8 mi. | 122 | 269 | 45.4 | $33,967 | 7.9 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 0.7 | |
58721 / Coteau / ND / 54 mi. | 119 | 257 | 46.3 | $27,829 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
58366 / Thorne / ND / 67.9 mi. | 116 | 407 | 28.5 | $32,961 | 21.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 18.6 | 0.0 | |
58733 / Des Lacs / ND / 12.9 mi. | 103 | 160 | 64.4 | $40,000 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
58771 / Wabek / ND / 31.7 mi. | 103 | 200 | 51.5 | $26,406 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.7 | |
58384 / Willow City / ND / 49.4 mi. | 102 | 315 | 32.4 | $23,636 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.0 | |
58773 / Powers Lake / ND / 61 mi. | 100 | 307 | 32.6 | $27,330 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | |
58710 / Aylmer / ND / 50.9 mi. | 92 | 241 | 38.2 | $30,588 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58301 / Devils Lake / ND / 105.1 mi. | 88 | 4,105 | 2.1 | $35,912 | 9.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 6.3 | 0.3 | |
58849 / Wheelock / ND / 80.7 mi. | 88 | 347 | 25.4 | $29,688 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | |
58438 / Fessenden / ND / 81.2 mi. | 85 | 355 | 23.9 | $34,438 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
58756 / Makoti / ND / 26.8 mi. | 85 | 121 | 70.2 | $25,341 | 13.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
58782 / Sherwood / ND / 51.2 mi. | 85 | 201 | 42.3 | $29,792 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
58750 / Lockwood / ND / 25.4 mi. | 77 | 216 | 35.6 | $36,477 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
58576 / Underwood / ND / 50.6 mi. | 69 | 415 | 16.6 | $34,286 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
58356 / New Rockfrd / ND / 99.7 mi. | 68 | 849 | 8.0 | $29,118 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
58779 / Ryder / ND / 34.6 mi. | 67 | 193 | 34.7 | $25,000 | 6.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 0.2 | |
58734 / Donnybrook / ND / 30.1 mi. | 63 | 140 | 45.0 | $24,167 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
58725 / Hartland / ND / 21.4 mi. | 59 | 133 | 44.4 | $25,893 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.5 | |
58735 / Douglas / ND / 24.4 mi. | 57 | 141 | 40.4 | $31,667 | 3.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.0 | |
58346 / Leeds / ND / 80.1 mi. | 53 | 315 | 16.8 | $32,200 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
58789 / Upham / ND / 33.4 mi. | 53 | 169 | 31.4 | $23,333 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
58792 / Voltaire / ND / 29.4 mi. | 53 | 114 | 46.5 | $29,464 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
58324 / Maza / ND / 91.1 mi. | 51 | 719 | 7.1 | $33,558 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 0.1 | |
58369 / Saint John / ND / 79.1 mi. | 50 | 347 | 14.4 | $29,167 | 62.8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 58.7 | 0.0 | |
58752 / Lignite / ND / 65.1 mi. | 50 | 116 | 43.1 | $24,583 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58760 / Maxbass / ND / 36.5 mi. | 49 | 126 | 38.9 | $31,000 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
58762 / Russell / ND / 31.9 mi. | 48 | 112 | 42.9 | $27,143 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58783 / Souris / ND / 52 mi. | 48 | 174 | 27.6 | $24,375 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58768 / Norwich / ND / 14.8 mi. | 47 | 108 | 43.5 | $39,000 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
58575 / Turtle Lake / ND / 49.1 mi. | 46 | 442 | 10.4 | $29,211 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
58332 / Fillmore / ND / 69.9 mi. | 45 | 192 | 23.4 | $28,056 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | |
58723 / Butte / ND / 41.1 mi. | 42 | 92 | 45.7 | $25,000 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58731 / Deering / ND / 17.6 mi. | 42 | 120 | 35.0 | $40,000 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 0.0 | |
58348 / Maddock / ND / 77.4 mi. | 41 | 425 | 9.6 | $27,174 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
58577 / Washburn / ND / 61.6 mi. | 40 | 713 | 5.6 | $40,398 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
58727 / Larson / ND / 76.9 mi. | 39 | 168 | 23.2 | $17,727 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
58711 / Kuroki / ND / 46.3 mi. | 38 | 98 | 38.8 | $36,500 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58765 / Noonan / ND / 84.5 mi. | 38 | 144 | 26.4 | $33,750 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58795 / Wildrose / ND / 85.1 mi. | 38 | 116 | 32.8 | $21,406 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | |
58531 / Coleharbor / ND / 48.9 mi. | 37 | 145 | 25.5 | $37,917 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
58737 / Northgate / ND / 61.5 mi. | 37 | 81 | 45.7 | $17,500 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58744 / Karlsruhe / ND / 35.1 mi. | 36 | 93 | 38.7 | $26,500 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58772 / Portal / ND / 70.6 mi. | 34 | 78 | 43.6 | $36,719 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
58778 / Ruso / ND / 36.1 mi. | 31 | 71 | 43.7 | $28,125 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
58847 / Keene / ND / 69.9 mi. | 29 | 109 | 26.6 | $22,292 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | |
58758 / Martin / ND / 60.6 mi. | 28 | 125 | 22.4 | $30,417 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
58421 / Rose Hill / ND / 106.6 mi. | 27 | 1,287 | 2.1 | $32,500 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
58545 / Pick City / ND / 61.8 mi. | 24 | 1,354 | 1.8 | $44,545 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | |
58565 / Riverdale / ND / 47.1 mi. | 24 | 112 | 21.4 | $45,000 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 0.7 | |
58712 / Balfour / ND / 37.1 mi. | 24 | 69 | 34.8 | $21,167 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
58746 / Spencer / ND / 43.8 mi. | 24 | 692 | 3.5 | $30,361 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
58769 / Palermo / ND / 41.2 mi. | 24 | 106 | 22.6 | $30,000 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.4 | |
58787 / Tolley / ND / 45.2 mi. | 24 | 78 | 30.8 | $24,097 | 6.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 0.0 | |
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