Lake County Record-Bee, Lakeport... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

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at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

Lake County Record-Bee, Lakeport

Lakeport, California

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

0.0

2004

Did not report

2003

0.0

2002

0.0

2001

0.0

2000

0.0

1999

11.1

1998

Did not report

1997

0.0

1996

Did not report

1995

0.0

1994

0.0

1993

0.0

1992

0.0

1991

0.0

1990

0.0

The latest year at peak is

1999

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Lake County Record-Bee, Lakeport

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

0.0

19.6

2004

N/A

19.6

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.)

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 Lake County Record-Bee, Lakeport

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211

newspapers reporting in the 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 Lake City Reporter, Florida, with a 23.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 21.4 percent non-white. Its index is 110.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 7,381 ranks 955 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 Lake County Record-Bee, Lakeport

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

11.4

6,625

Black

2.1

1,209

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

548

Native-American

2.4

1,409

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

2.6

1,505

Non-white

19.6

11,348

White

80.4

46,653

Total

58,001

Home county: Lake

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

11.4

6,639

Black

2.1

1,209

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

550

Native-American

2.4

1,413

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

2.6

1,513

Non-white

19.5

11,376

White

80.5

46,933

Total

58,309

The home county of this newspaper is Lake.

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

Lake County Record-Bee, Lakeport

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

95453 / Lakeport / CA / 0 mi.

2,192

4,332

50.6

$33,065

21.3

14.2

0.9

3.3

1.0

95451 / Kelseyville / CA / 13.4 mi.

1,458

3,939

37.0

$35,298

21.6

16.0

0.8

1.5

0.9

95422 / Clearlake / CA / 19.1 mi.

916

5,701

16.1

$20,072

23.0

11.0

5.0

2.0

1.2

95458 / Lucerne / CA / 10.8 mi.

472

1,392

33.9

$25,345

15.7

8.4

1.7

2.6

0.5

95423 / Clearlake Oaks / CA / 17.3 mi.

434

1,724

25.2

$27,382

15.5

6.6

3.7

2.1

0.7

95461 / Middletown / CA / 28.2 mi.

370

2,944

12.6

$43,200

14.4

9.1

0.5

1.5

1.0

95464 / Nice / CA / 11.8 mi.

314

975

32.2

$25,000

21.1

8.7

1.9

7.5

0.6

95485 / Upper Lake / CA / 13 mi.

297

997

29.8

$27,604

20.7

11.5

1.2

5.2

0.3

95457 / Lower Lake / CA / 28.4 mi.

289

1,085

26.6

$29,250

16.4

8.9

1.4

1.0

95426 / Cobb / CA / 20.9 mi.

106

623

17.0

$52,500

10.4

4.3

0.6

1.1

0.8

95443 / Glenhaven / CA / 25.6 mi.

32.6

$39,375

14.5

2.5

6.9

1.3

95424 / Clearlake Park / CA / 18.4 mi.

43.6

$17,143

5.5

0.0

2.2

0.0

1.1

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