Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Casper Star-Tribune
Casper, Wyoming
Owner: Lee Enterprises (Iowa)
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 3.3
2004 6.1
2003 11.1
2002 9.1
2001 7.3
2000 6.3
1999 0.0
1998 0.0
1997 0.0
1996 0.0
1995 0.0
1994 3.8
1993 7.4
1992 4.0
1991 2.6
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 Casper Star-Tribune
Year Non-white % of newsroom staff Non-white % of circulation area Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005 3.3 11.0 30
2004 6.1 10.4 58
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, Lee Enterprises (Iowa),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 47.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Casper Star-Tribune
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 30. 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 105 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 30,790 ranks 331 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 Casper Star-Tribune
Circulation area
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 5.9 15,725
Black 0.4 1,168
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5 1,217
Native-American 2.3 6,130
Other non-white 0.1 255
Multi-racial 1.3 3,349
  Non-white 10.4 27,844
White 89.6 239,234
Total 267,078
Home county:  Natrona
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 4.9 3,257
Black 0.7 473
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4 289
Native-American 0.9 575
Other non-white 0.1 73
Multi-racial 1.3 843
  Non-white 8.3 5,510
White 91.7 61,023
Total 66,533
The home county of this newspaper is Natrona.
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
Casper Star-Tribune
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
82601 / Casper / WY / 0.8 mi. 5,023 9,678 51.9 $31,219 11.0 6.5 1.2 1.3 0.5
82604 / Moneta / WY / 2.3 mi. 4,804 9,286 51.7 $40,675 5.8 3.3 0.3 0.7 0.3
82609 / Casper / WY / 3.1 mi. 3,249 6,563 49.5 $39,717 8.6 5.4 0.7 0.6 0.7
82501 / Sand Draw / WY / 99.3 mi. 1,061 6,279 16.9 $32,293 20.4 6.1 0.2 12.0 0.3
82901 / Rock Springs / WY / 159.8 mi. 1,008 8,867 11.4 $43,355 13.5 9.1 1.0 0.6 0.9
82633 / Orin / WY / 44.3 mi. 906 3,204 28.3 $39,666 8.6 6.3 0.1 0.7 0.2
82520 / Sweetwater Stati / WY / 112.2 mi. 890 4,331 20.5 $35,354 23.4 3.0 0.1 18.5 0.4
82718 / Gillette / WY / 99.2 mi. 737 5,488 13.4 $55,359 5.6 3.3 0.1 0.7 0.4
82070 / Laramie / WY / 105.9 mi. 627 6,759 9.3 $32,155 11.1 6.6 0.9 0.7 1.3
82801 / Sheridan / WY / 128.6 mi. 616 9,316 6.6 $34,307 5.4 2.4 0.2 1.0 0.6
82201 / Wheatland / WY / 83.2 mi. 577 2,675 21.6 $35,114 6.0 4.7 0.0 0.4 0.1
82935 / Green River / WY / 172.3 mi. 562 4,409 12.7 $52,917 12.6 10.0 0.3 1.1 0.3
82301 / Riner / WY / 79.4 mi. 559 3,650 15.3 $37,500 24.0 19.4 1.0 1.5 0.8
82636 / Evansville / WY / 6.5 mi. 554 426 130.0 $50,625 6.3 2.8 0.4 1.1 0.1
82637 / Rolling Hills / WY / 23.5 mi. 537 1,473 36.5 $39,524 7.0 3.8 0.3 1.0 0.4
82240 / Torrington / WY / 114.1 mi. 507 3,775 13.4 $33,036 12.7 10.6 0.3 0.8 0.3
82001 / FE Warren AFB / WY / 132.4 mi. 476 14,000 3.4 $35,080 18.0 10.8 3.5 0.7 1.2
82930 / Evanston / WY / 243.8 mi. 440 4,752 9.3 $42,803 9.5 6.7 0.1 1.0 0.4
82834 / Buffalo / WY / 98.1 mi. 439 2,623 16.7 $33,455 4.1 1.8 0.1 0.6 0.1
82443 / Thermopolis / WY / 102.1 mi. 419 2,071 20.2 $29,850 5.5 2.3 0.4 1.5 0.2
83001 / Jackson Hole / WY / 212 mi. 399 5,674 7.0 $55,196 10.4 8.2 0.2 0.5 0.6
82414 / Cody / WY / 169 mi. 348 5,949 5.8 $37,361 4.1 2.2 0.1 0.4 0.5
82716 / Weston / WY / 98.8 mi. 332 5,609 5.9 $42,385 6.8 4.0 0.2 1.0 0.5
82072 / Mountain Home / WY / 105.1 mi. 308 6,129 5.0 $25,838 14.5 8.8 1.2 0.9 2.3
82941 / Pinedale / WY / 166.9 mi. 278 1,058 26.3 $39,531 3.3 1.6 0.2 0.5 0.4
82401 / Worland / WY / 107.2 mi. 257 2,954 8.7 $35,968 14.9 12.5 0.1 0.4 0.7
83101 / Kemmerer / WY / 211.3 mi. 256 1,057 24.2 $47,703 4.9 3.2 0.1 0.4 0.5
82009 / Iron Mountain / WY / 128 mi. 252 10,337 2.4 $54,591 10.6 6.2 1.4 0.5 1.2
82225 / Node / WY / 94.6 mi. 250 827 30.2 $30,351 3.0 1.6 0.2 0.5 0.1
82701 / Newcastle / WY / 115.2 mi. 232 1,965 11.8 $32,828 5.4 2.2 0.2 1.4 0.2
82331 / Saratoga / WY / 92.6 mi. 217 999 21.7 $36,719 6.3 4.2 0.1 0.6 0.5
82937 / Urie / WY / 213.4 mi. 214 1,012 21.1 $51,211 4.2 2.8 0.0 0.5 0.1
82007 / Cheyenne / WY / 132.3 mi. 197 6,058 3.3 $30,956 27.2 20.6 2.7 1.1 0.4
82644 / Mills / WY / 3.6 mi. 197 481 41.0 $26,653 6.5 4.3 0.1 0.7 0.2
82513 / Dubois / WY / 162.6 mi. 159 807 19.7 $32,763 5.1 1.3 0.1 1.3 0.2
82214 / Guernsey / WY / 83.2 mi. 150 557 26.9 $31,932 11.1 7.3 0.2 0.6 0.2
82435 / Willwood / WY / 166.9 mi. 138 3,917 3.5 $33,231 7.4 5.8 0.1 0.4 0.5
83113 / Marbleton / WY / 178.2 mi. 131 734 17.8 $40,052 4.1 2.1 0.3 0.6 0.2
82732 / Wright / WY / 71.3 mi. 124 525 23.6 $53,393 3.9 2.6 0.0 0.4 0.1
83110 / Turnerville / WY / 218 mi. 114 1,320 8.6 $37,243 3.5 2.1 0.1 0.6 0.1
82729 / Sundance / WY / 135.9 mi. 106 793 13.4 $39,688 3.0 0.6 0.0 1.2 0.2
82721 / Pine Haven / WY / 118.2 mi. 101 871 11.6 $42,292 2.1 0.9 0.0 0.7 0.0
82730 / Upton / WY / 110.5 mi. 97 527 18.4 $34,875 5.1 2.1 0.0 0.8 0.2
82649 / Shoshoni / WY / 91.2 mi. 96 422 22.7 $35,096 7.4 3.3 0.2 1.5 0.8
82426 / Greybull / WY / 132.7 mi. 86 1,091 7.9 $31,583 7.8 5.2 0.3 0.8 0.4
82639 / Sussex / WY / 59.1 mi. 77 312 24.7 $35,875 5.6 4.1 0.0 0.3 0.1
82431 / Lovell / WY / 156.9 mi. 76 1,253 6.1 $33,652 9.1 7.0 0.0 0.6 0.2
82410 / Basin / WY / 126.8 mi. 67 667 10.0 $33,485 4.3 2.3 0.1 1.1 0.2
82327 / Leo / WY / 63.7 mi. 64 396 16.2 $35,227 7.6 5.7 0.1 0.0 0.1
83127 / Thayne / WY / 218.8 mi. 64 696 9.2 $44,458 2.8 0.6 0.2 0.6 0.1
82213 / Glendo / WY / 71.9 mi. 63 256 24.6 $23,000 6.8 4.1 0.0 0.5 0.0
82514 / Fort Washakie / WY / 120.3 mi. 61 520 11.7 $19,145 93.2 2.7 0.1 89.6 0.0
82939 / Mountain View / WY / 219.6 mi. 59 636 9.3 $49,464 3.6 2.2 0.1 0.3 0.2
82635 / Edgerton / WY / 36.6 mi. 54 84 64.3 $29,750 5.3 1.1 0.0 1.1 0.0
82720 / New Haven / WY / 140.4 mi. 52 383 13.6 $27,958 3.0 1.2 0.3 0.6 0.1
83013 / Moran / WY / 199 mi. 49 219 22.4 $30,250 4.4 1.0 0.0 0.7 1.0
83116 / Diamondville / WY / 211.6 mi. 48 374 12.8 $38,500 5.5 3.9 0.0 0.6 0.6
83114 / Raymond / WY / 228.4 mi. 46 272 16.9 $36,333 3.7 1.8 0.4 0.1 0.3
82325 / Riverside / WY / 107.6 mi. 45 403 11.2 $36,375 2.8 0.9 0.0 0.2 0.6
82942 / Rock Springs / WY / 138.7 mi. 44 27 163.0 $40,125 16.1 11.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
82643 / Midwest / WY / 36.4 mi. 43 161 26.7 $32,250 5.5 2.5 0.2 1.2 0.0
82223 / Rockeagle / WY / 105.5 mi. 41 436 9.4 $36,607 5.9 3.6 0.0 0.6 0.2
82329 / Medicine Bow / WY / 61.3 mi. 37 162 22.8 $28,750 4.4 0.8 1.1 0.8 1.1
82515 / Hudson / WY / 105.2 mi. 34 211 16.1 $25,833 11.5 4.5 0.2 4.5 0.2
82321 / Baggs / WY / 131.8 mi. 33 257 12.8 $35,625 10.1 6.7 0.0 1.4 1.3
82336 / Wamsutter / WY / 108.8 mi. 30 129 23.3 $39,375 16.4 11.3 0.0 0.6 0.0
82212 / Fort Laramie / WY / 95.7 mi. 26 224 11.6 $26,875 5.0 3.3 0.0 1.0 0.0
82322 / Lamont / WY / 69.9 mi. 25 49 51.0 $42,969 3.4 3.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
82933 / Piedmont / WY / 217.9 mi. 25 338 7.4 $47,188 2.9 1.5 0.0 0.5 0.0
82227 / Manville / WY / 81.5 mi. 23 103 22.3 $20,938 0.9 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0
82324 / Elk Mountain / WY / 74.5 mi. 21 113 18.6 $31,875 5.6 3.9 0.0 0.4 0.0
82516 / Kinnear / WY / 119.4 mi. 21 225 9.3 $28,393 43.2 6.2 0.0 33.2 0.0
82842 / Story / WY / 114.7 mi. 21 420 5.0 $33,125 2.1 1.4 0.1 0.2 0.2
82620 / Alcova / WY / 29.2 mi. 16 109 14.7 $81,250 5.7 1.3 0.9 0.0 0.4
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