Fairbanks Daily News-Miner... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Fairbanks, Alaska

Owner: MediaNews Group (Colo.)

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

14.8

2003

11.5

2002

Did not report

2001

Did not report

2000

0.0

1999

0.0

1998

5.3

1997

0.0

1996

3.4

1995

0.0

1994

0.0

1993

0.0

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

0.0

The latest year at peak is

2004

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

25.0

N/A

2004

14.8

25.1

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, MediaNews Group (Colo.),

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 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

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 16,127 ranks 581 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 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.0

3,672

Black

5.3

4,876

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.2

2,020

Native-American

8.7

8,054

Other non-white

0.3

274

Multi-racial

4.7

4,396

Non-white

25.1

23,292

White

74.9

69,609

Total

92,901

Home county: Fairbanks North Star

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.2

3,440

Black

5.7

4,719

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.3

1,919

Native-American

6.8

5,596

Other non-white

0.3

265

Multi-racial

4.8

3,959

Non-white

24.0

19,898

White

76.0

62,942

Total

82,840

The home county of this newspaper is Fairbanks North Star.

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

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

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

99701 / Fairbanks / AK / 0.4 mi.

5,429

7,164

75.8

$39,087

35.2

4.4

7.7

13.5

3.0

99709 / Fairbanks / AK / 5.1 mi.

4,328

9,638

44.9

$53,825

21.5

3.2

3.5

7.0

2.7

99705 / North Pole / AK / 9.8 mi.

2,096

5,660

37.0

$58,643

16.9

2.9

2.7

4.7

1.6

99712 / Fairbanks / AK / 36.9 mi.

1,329

3,416

38.9

$62,216

12.3

2.0

0.4

4.4

1.1

99737 / Paxson / AK / 84.5 mi.

313

1,239

25.3

$43,445

13.8

3.2

3.0

2.9

1.1

99703 / Fort Wainwright / AK / 2 mi.

210

1,822

11.5

$34,435

40.5

11.6

20.2

1.4

2.9

99755 / Healy / AK / 119.1 mi.

209

222.3

$53,125

12.6

2.2

1.7

0.6

99760 / Nenana / AK / 42.9 mi.

191

287

66.6

$40,313

38.8

1.6

0.4

28.9

1.3

99780 / Tok / AK / 145.8 mi.

162

547

29.6

$38,309

22.5

2.0

0.1

12.6

0.4

99714 / Salcha / AK / 58.4 mi.

152

422

36.0

$47,308

12.0

2.3

1.3

2.9

0.9

99702 / Fairbanks / AK / 20.7 mi.

143

1,445

9.9

$35,938

20.6

5.8

9.2

0.6

2.2

99743 / Healy / AK / 65.1 mi.

110

429

25.6

$60,694

9.6

1.4

0.2

2.4

2.3

99775 / Fairbanks / AK / 5.1 mi.

107

105

101.9

$27,679

33.0

3.0

2.4

16.5

4.2

99740 / Fort Yukon / AK / 114.3 mi.

236

30.5

$28,750

89.9

1.3

0.2

85.7

0.2

99744 / Nenana / AK / 53 mi.

48.5

$56,667

14.6

4.6

1.2

1.5

0.0

99704 / Nenana / AK / 35 mi.

78.6

$56,250

27.3

6.5

7.9

3.7

1.9

99741 / Galena / AK / 103 mi.

216

19.0

$61,125

70.4

1.9

0.3

62.2

1.3

99729 / Cantwell / AK / 94.7 mi.

114

32.5

$46,500

32.2

1.2

20.4

1.6

99758 / Minto / AK / 54.8 mi.

40.5

$21,250

92.3

0.0

91.9

0.0

99721 / Anaktuvuk Pass / AK / 244.1 mi.

29.8

$52,500

90.4

0.7

1.4

87.6

0.0

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