The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach... 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

The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach

West Palm Beach, Florida

Owner: Cox Enterprises (Ga.)

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

17.6

2004

19.0

2003

15.2

2002

13.5

2001

12.6

2000

12.3

1999

10.3

1998

10.0

1997

9.3

1996

9.7

1995

11.0

1994

9.5

1993

10.8

1992

11.7

1991

12.7

1990

10.3

The latest year at peak is

2004

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

17.6

30.9

2004

19.0

30.9

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, Cox Enterprises (Ga.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 66.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 57.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 34 out of 58

newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, with a 21 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30.8 percent non-white. Its index is 68.

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

approximately 168,257 ranks 64 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 The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

12.8

131,650

Black

14.8

152,818

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.3

13,571

Native-American

0.2

1,648

Other non-white

0.2

1,747

Multi-racial

1.7

16,986

Non-white

30.9

318,420

White

69.1

712,831

Total

1,031,251

Home county: Palm Beach

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

12.4

140,675

Black

13.5

152,433

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.5

17,364

Native-American

0.1

1,617

Other non-white

0.2

2,159

Multi-racial

1.6

18,452

Non-white

29.4

332,700

White

70.6

798,484

Total

1,131,184

The home county of this newspaper is Palm Beach.

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

The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach

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

33467 / Lake Worth / FL / 12.5 mi.

8,791

16,954

51.9

$52,935

14.0

8.4

3.0

0.1

1.5

33418 / Palm Beach Gardens / FL / 11.2 mi.

6,745

11,418

59.1

$71,976

10.2

5.3

1.5

0.1

2.5

33411 / West Palm Beach / FL / 9 mi.

6,524

15,207

42.9

$52,025

28.2

11.4

12.5

0.2

2.2

33436 / Boynton Beach / FL / 14 mi.

6,490

16,562

39.2

$45,047

19.3

7.7

8.3

0.1

2.0

33437 / Boynton Beach / FL / 15.3 mi.

6,243

18,244

34.2

$52,531

11.1

5.6

3.2

0.1

1.6

33458 / Jupiter / FL / 16.5 mi.

6,005

12,854

46.7

$54,530

14.7

8.9

3.5

0.2

1.3

33414 / West Palm Beach / FL / 21.6 mi.

5,850

12,576

46.5

$69,714

20.2

11.5

5.1

0.1

1.9

33410 / Palm Beach Gardens / FL / 9.8 mi.

5,539

11,877

46.6

$49,840

13.7

6.7

3.6

0.2

2.1

33408 / North Palm Beach / FL / 9.8 mi.

5,320

8,763

60.7

$53,730

6.2

3.7

0.7

0.1

0.9

33417 / West Palm Beach / FL / 4.5 mi.

5,289

14,094

37.5

$26,748

30.5

11.2

15.1

0.2

1.9

33463 / Lake Worth / FL / 9.5 mi.

5,006

15,356

32.6

$39,632

36.0

22.2

8.9

0.2

2.2

33477 / Jupiter / FL / 14.2 mi.

4,943

6,325

78.2

$63,310

3.3

1.8

0.2

0.1

0.6

33404 / West Palm Beach / FL / 4.6 mi.

4,768

11,694

40.8

$31,118

73.0

3.5

67.2

0.1

0.4

33462 / Lake Worth / FL / 9.8 mi.

4,746

11,080

42.8

$39,267

28.7

14.8

10.4

0.2

1.1

33480 / Palm Beach / FL / 1.7 mi.

4,716

6,259

75.3

$84,191

6.0

2.5

2.3

0.0

0.6

33435 / Boynton Beach / FL / 13.2 mi.

4,371

12,491

35.0

$35,583

49.1

10.1

35.1

0.2

0.7

33415 / West Palm Beach / FL / 5.9 mi.

4,218

16,036

26.3

$33,216

42.2

27.2

11.2

0.2

1.7

33461 / Lake Worth / FL / 6.9 mi.

3,983

14,032

28.4

$32,331

42.1

29.6

9.0

0.3

1.1

33469 / Jupiter / FL / 18.7 mi.

3,814

6,607

57.7

$56,476

3.8

2.3

0.4

0.1

0.6

33401 / West Palm Beach / FL / 1 mi.

3,589

9,256

38.8

$30,642

54.1

10.2

39.3

0.3

1.1

33455 / Hobe Sound / FL / 23.6 mi.

3,208

7,588

42.3

$39,957

8.0

2.4

4.2

0.1

0.5

33409 / West Palm Beach / FL / 2.7 mi.

3,183

9,639

33.0

$39,145

43.5

17.1

21.5

0.2

2.4

33406 / West Palm Beach / FL / 4.1 mi.

3,168

9,061

35.0

$42,497

39.2

29.1

6.7

0.2

1.5

33426 / Boynton Beach / FL / 13.8 mi.

3,126

7,401

42.2

$41,222

17.1

7.0

7.4

0.1

1.4

33407 / West Palm Beach / FL / 3.9 mi.

3,072

10,652

28.8

$32,169

73.8

9.3

59.8

0.2

1.3

34997 / Stuart / FL / 29.3 mi.

3,039

14,466

21.0

$42,973

13.6

7.9

4.1

0.1

0.6

33405 / West Palm Beach / FL / 3.3 mi.

2,854

7,833

36.4

$39,278

52.2

46.3

4.0

0.2

0.8

33460 / Lake Worth / FL / 6.5 mi.

2,670

12,165

21.9

$30,360

54.8

31.5

19.0

0.2

0.7

33445 / Delray Beach / FL / 18.2 mi.

2,358

13,300

17.7

$42,653

26.6

5.8

17.1

0.1

1.4

34990 / Palm City / FL / 34.1 mi.

2,091

9,906

21.1

$63,014

5.8

3.0

1.0

0.1

1.0

33483 / Delray Beach / FL / 17.9 mi.

1,728

6,673

25.9

$55,639

16.1

5.2

6.8

0.1

1.1

33470 / Loxahatchee / FL / 24.5 mi.

1,647

5,951

27.7

$61,644

19.6

11.0

5.7

0.3

1.1

33403 / West Palm Beach / FL / 6.3 mi.

1,503

4,968

30.3

$35,429

45.3

5.7

32.2

0.2

3.0

33478 / Jupiter / FL / 18.6 mi.

1,439

3,721

38.7

$72,319

6.5

3.8

0.9

0.3

0.6

33412 / West Palm Beach / FL / 13.9 mi.

1,418

2,916

48.6

$70,409

19.3

9.3

6.5

0.2

2.2

33484 / Delray Beach / FL / 18.8 mi.

1,372

13,757

10.0

$33,395

6.4

3.0

2.3

0.1

0.6

33444 / Delray Beach / FL / 17.9 mi.

1,270

7,720

16.5

$36,335

64.3

9.4

48.0

0.1

0.8

34996 / Stuart / FL / 34.2 mi.

1,204

5,383

22.4

$41,209

7.6

4.8

1.8

0.1

0.5

33413 / West Palm Beach / FL / 7.7 mi.

1,157

3,604

32.1

$47,813

33.7

19.5

9.9

0.2

2.3

34994 / Stuart / FL / 34.3 mi.

1,134

7,059

16.1

$33,205

20.3

6.4

12.1

0.2

0.6

34957 / Jensen Beach / FL / 38.5 mi.

1,014

9,509

10.7

$39,542

4.5

2.2

1.2

0.2

0.4

33446 / Delray Beach / FL / 20.1 mi.

985

8,881

11.1

$35,562

4.0

3.0

0.5

0.0

0.3

33430 / Belle Glade / FL / 37.6 mi.

929

6,351

14.6

$22,030

86.8

26.9

53.1

0.2

0.3

33433 / Boca Raton / FL / 26.2 mi.

785

19,422

4.0

$57,247

11.9

7.7

1.3

0.0

1.8

33431 / Boca Raton / FL / 23.3 mi.

581

6,834

8.5

$56,381

17.1

7.9

5.6

0.1

1.8

33432 / Boca Raton / FL / 25.5 mi.

548

9,031

6.1

$48,920

19.1

10.4

4.9

0.1

2.1

33487 / Boca Raton / FL / 21.3 mi.

532

7,909

6.7

$60,405

11.4

6.5

2.6

0.1

1.0

33476 / Pahokee / FL / 36.2 mi.

531

2,475

21.5

$21,875

89.8

23.9

64.3

0.1

0.3

34956 / Indiantown / FL / 39.5 mi.

437

2,289

19.1

$31,229

67.2

42.7

22.3

0.7

0.3

33428 / Boca Raton / FL / 27.8 mi.

427

14,115

3.0

$52,266

20.4

12.1

3.3

0.2

2.9

33496 / Boca Raton / FL / 22.2 mi.

400

9,008

4.4

$74,769

10.2

6.2

1.2

0.0

2.0

33486 / Boca Raton / FL / 25.6 mi.

371

8,947

4.1

$61,181

15.8

9.2

2.2

0.1

2.5

33434 / Boca Raton / FL / 24.2 mi.

350

10,336

3.4

$46,992

8.6

5.2

1.2

0.1

1.4

33498 / Boca Raton / FL / 24.4 mi.

241

5,220

4.6

$78,244

14.8

8.8

1.6

0.1

3.3

33493 / South Bay / FL / 46.5 mi.

120

820

14.6

$23,589

87.3

19.8

65.7

0.3

0.4

33438 / Canal Point / FL / 36.3 mi.

107

267

40.1

$35,313

59.2

30.3

26.3

0.4

0.5

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