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| Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
| at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
| with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
| Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
| Evening Times, West Memphis | ||||||||||
| West Memphis, Arkansas | ||||||||||
| 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 2002 | 16.7 | |||||||||
| 2001 | 18.2 | |||||||||
| 2000 | 20.0 | |||||||||
| 1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1995 | 16.7 | |||||||||
| 1994 | 11.1 | |||||||||
| 1993 | 12.5 | |||||||||
| 1992 | 16.7 | |||||||||
| 1991 | 12.5 | |||||||||
| 1990 | 18.2 | |||||||||
| The latest year at peak is | 2000 | |||||||||
| See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
| Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
| for Evening Times, West Memphis | ||||||||||
| Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
| 2005 | N/A | 50.3 | N/A | |||||||
| 2004 | N/A | 50.3 | N/A | |||||||
| 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.) | ||||||||||
| See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
| Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
| for Evening Times, West Memphis | ||||||||||
| This paper | ||||||||||
| Peer group | ||||||||||
| The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
| reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Kansas City Kansan, Kansas, with a 25 percent non-white staff in a community that is 48.4 percent non-white. Its index is 52. | ||||||||||
| FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
| approximately 7,487 ranks 949 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 Evening Times, West Memphis | ||||||||||
| Circulation area | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 1.4 | 743 | ||||||||
| Black | 47.5 | 25,158 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 276 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 0.2 | 128 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.1 | 26 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 0.5 | 288 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 50.3 | 26,619 | ||||||||
| White | 49.7 | 26,306 | ||||||||
| Total | 52,925 | |||||||||
| Home county: Crittenden | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 1.4 | 720 | ||||||||
| Black | 46.8 | 23,828 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5 | 247 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 0.2 | 121 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.1 | 28 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 0.6 | 279 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 49.6 | 25,223 | ||||||||
| White | 50.4 | 25,643 | ||||||||
| Total | 50,866 | |||||||||
| The home county of this newspaper is Crittenden. | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
| Evening Times, West Memphis | ||||||||||
| 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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| 72301 / West Memphis / AR / 0.4 mi. | 4,016 | 10,032 | 40.0 | $27,406 | 58.1 | 1.0 | 55.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
| 72364 / Marion / AR / 4.4 mi. | 1,649 | 4,503 | 36.6 | $39,960 | 24.2 | 2.0 | 21.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
| 72331 / Earle / AR / 16.6 mi. | 467 | 1,437 | 32.5 | $22,083 | 66.9 | 0.6 | 64.9 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
| 72348 / Hughes / AR / 16 mi. | 429 | 1,234 | 34.8 | $26,034 | 53.2 | 1.9 | 49.8 | 0.2 | 0.9 | |
| 72384 / Turrell / AR / 12.9 mi. | 266 | 483 | 55.1 | $20,278 | 65.1 | 3.0 | 61.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | |
| 72376 / Proctor / AR / 6 mi. | 191 | 760 | 25.1 | $32,075 | 46.9 | 1.8 | 43.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
| 72327 / Jericho / AR / 9 mi. | 90 | 718 | 12.5 | $27,050 | 60.3 | 3.0 | 56.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
| 72332 / Edmondson / AR / 7.1 mi. | 39 | 48 | 81.3 | $26,875 | 92.2 | 0.0 | 92.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| File | ar_evening_times__west_memphis | |||||||||
| Time | 5/22/05 12:08 AM | |||||||||
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