The Daily Journal, Kankakee... 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 Daily Journal, Kankakee

Kankakee, Illinois

Owner: Small Newspapers (Ill.)

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

5.7

2004

5.7

2003

4.7

2002

5.6

2001

5.9

2000

6.5

1999

3.6

1998

10.7

1997

11.5

1996

3.0

1995

6.9

1994

7.7

1993

0.0

1992

4.2

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1997

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Daily Journal, Kankakee

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

5.7

17.3

2004

5.7

17.3

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, Small Newspapers (Ill.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 38.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Daily Journal, Kankakee

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 33.

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 96 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 The Jackson Sun, Tennessee, with a 37.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 24.7 percent non-white. Its index is 152.

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

approximately 28,280 ranks 361 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 Daily Journal, Kankakee

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.4

6,367

Black

11.2

16,352

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.6

838

Native-American

0.1

198

Other non-white

0.1

134

Multi-racial

1.0

1,404

Non-white

17.3

25,293

White

82.7

120,893

Total

146,186

Home county: Kankakee

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.8

4,959

Black

15.4

15,942

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.7

714

Native-American

0.1

145

Other non-white

0.1

119

Multi-racial

1.1

1,125

Non-white

22.2

23,004

White

77.9

80,829

Total

103,833

The home county of this newspaper is Kankakee.

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 Daily Journal, Kankakee

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

60901 / Kankakee / IL / 0 mi.

7,548

13,665

55.2

$36,153

40.0

7.2

30.9

0.2

0.4

60914 / Bourbonnais / IL / 5.6 mi.

4,667

8,203

56.9

$47,300

9.5

2.5

3.7

0.1

2.0

60915 / Bradley / IL / 5 mi.

2,720

4,092

66.5

$38,952

5.9

3.7

0.7

0.1

0.5

60950 / Manteno / IL / 9.2 mi.

1,644

3,379

48.7

$48,834

6.9

2.9

3.0

0.2

0.3

60954 / Momence / IL / 15.1 mi.

1,279

2,553

50.1

$38,900

23.8

7.5

14.9

0.1

0.2

60964 / Saint Anne / IL / 15.9 mi.

1,119

2,477

45.2

$37,358

38.3

4.5

31.7

0.1

0.3

60970 / Watseka / IL / 27 mi.

1,069

3,063

34.9

$33,193

4.4

2.2

0.5

0.2

0.6

60922 / Chebanse / IL / 7.1 mi.

562

994

56.5

$43,000

6.2

1.4

3.8

0.3

0.2

60927 / Clifton / IL / 12.4 mi.

520

846

61.5

$45,708

1.2

0.5

0.0

0.3

60468 / Peotone / IL / 17.2 mi.

501

1,903

26.3

$58,000

3.9

2.0

0.8

0.1

0.4

60940 / Grant Park / IL / 17.7 mi.

485

1,122

43.2

$55,071

4.3

3.0

0.0

0.2

60941 / Herscher / IL / 9.8 mi.

472

693

68.1

$50,000

2.7

0.7

0.2

0.5

0.6

60481 / Wilmington / IL / 14.7 mi.

428

4,337

9.9

$50,509

3.6

1.9

0.4

0.2

60938 / Gilman / IL / 24.5 mi.

388

881

44.0

$35,898

9.1

8.1

0.3

0.0

0.3

60913 / Bonfield / IL / 6.9 mi.

343

518

66.2

$53,646

1.8

1.0

0.0

0.1

60911 / Ashkum / IL / 16.5 mi.

313

556

56.3

$38,681

1.7

0.9

0.2

0.0

60401 / Beecher / IL / 23.6 mi.

299

2,168

13.8

$49,500

3.7

2.1

0.2

0.1

0.2

60955 / Onarga / IL / 28.9 mi.

209

677

30.9

$38,438

29.4

26.6

1.7

0.2

60910 / Aroma Park / IL / 9.8 mi.

199

200

99.5

$37,981

11.7

8.4

2.1

0.2

0.0

60953 / Milford / IL / 37.4 mi.

195

1,074

18.2

$35,175

3.6

2.8

0.2

0.1

60951 / Martinton / IL / 18.6 mi.

182

430

42.3

$40,083

4.6

3.4

0.5

0.1

60930 / Danforth / IL / 20.8 mi.

159

313

50.8

$41,429

2.8

1.7

0.0

0.3

60966 / Sheldon / IL / 30.3 mi.

159

659

24.1

$36,128

3.3

1.4

0.4

0.1

0.6

60928 / Crescent City / IL / 25.7 mi.

158

299

52.8

$39,000

1.8

1.1

0.0

0.4

0.0

60420 / Dwight / IL / 21.8 mi.

141

1,947

7.2

$40,769

15.3

3.3

11.1

0.2

0.3

60931 / Donovan / IL / 24.1 mi.

140

254

55.1

$41,000

4.8

2.6

0.7

0.0

60408 / Braidwood / IL / 16.4 mi.

137

1,743

7.9

$55,337

4.1

2.9

0.1

0.3

60959 / Piper City / IL / 28.2 mi.

129

400

32.3

$37,692

3.0

1.1

0.1

0.3

0.7

60924 / Cissna Park / IL / 36.8 mi.

123

686

17.9

$38,029

2.0

1.1

0.2

0.1

0.4

60935 / Essex / IL / 12.7 mi.

122

296

41.2

$49,063

2.3

0.7

0.1

0.0

60912 / Beaverville / IL / 20.8 mi.

120

252

47.6

$33,750

14.0

0.5

13.1

0.0

0.2

60917 / Buckingham / IL / 13.6 mi.

114

191

59.7

$56,964

2.5

0.7

0.0

60961 / Reddick / IL / 13.4 mi.

113

303

37.3

$50,119

3.9

0.6

0.1

0.4

0.1

60919 / Cabery / IL / 16.2 mi.

204

40.2

$36,786

4.6

3.4

0.0

60416 / Coal City / IL / 21.3 mi.

2,835

2.8

$51,223

3.5

2.4

0.2

0.3

0.1

60442 / Manhattan / IL / 21 mi.

2,036

3.6

$62,944

3.6

2.3

0.4

0.1

0.2

60449 / Monee / IL / 21.8 mi.

2,126

3.4

$64,821

7.9

3.4

2.4

0.1

0.5

60424 / Gardner / IL / 18.7 mi.

901

7.3

$42,689

4.0

2.7

0.1

0.4

60929 / Cullom / IL / 24.7 mi.

326

17.2

$33,438

1.4

0.3

0.5

0.1

60946 / Kempton / IL / 20.4 mi.

158

32.3

$52,778

2.9

0.9

0.0

0.7

60474 / South Wilmington / IL / 17.5 mi.

305

13.8

$40,288

2.6

2.1

0.0

60417 / Crete / IL / 28 mi.

5,721

0.7

$66,831

15.6

4.1

9.6

0.1

0.7

60974 / Woodland / IL / 30.3 mi.

132

26.5

$31,635

7.4

4.1

2.4

0.0

60918 / Buckley / IL / 35.3 mi.

381

7.6

$42,386

3.2

2.4

0.1

0.0

0.6

60945 / Iroquois / IL / 27.9 mi.

32.5

$35,469

1.5

0.0

0.5

60920 / Campus / IL / 19.9 mi.

55.3

$48,214

1.2

0.0

46349 / Lake Village / IN / 25.4 mi.

1,187

2.1

$41,892

4.7

2.2

0.3

0.7

0.4

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