The Pantagraph, Bloomington... 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 Pantagraph, Bloomington

Bloomington, Illinois

Owner: Pulitzer (Mo.)

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

0.0

2003

0.0

2002

0.0

2001

0.0

2000

0.0

1999

0.0

1998

0.0

1997

Did not report

1996

0.0

1995

0.0

1994

Did not report

1993

0.0

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2005

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Pantagraph, Bloomington

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

0.0

9.5

2004

0.0

9.5

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, Pulitzer (Mo.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Pantagraph, Bloomington

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0.

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 123 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101.

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

approximately 47,083 ranks 223 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 Pantagraph, Bloomington

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.4

6,974

Black

4.8

13,717

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.3

3,620

Native-American

0.2

435

Other non-white

0.1

184

Multi-racial

0.9

2,605

Non-white

9.5

27,535

White

90.5

260,985

Total

288,520

Home county: McLean

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.6

3,833

Black

6.1

9,189

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.1

3,115

Native-American

0.2

224

Other non-white

0.1

145

Multi-racial

1.1

1,703

Non-white

12.1

18,209

White

87.9

132,224

Total

150,433

The home county of this newspaper is McLean.

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 Pantagraph, Bloomington

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

61704 / Covell / IL / 8.4 mi.

10,425

13,423

77.7

$65,814

13.9

2.9

5.5

0.2

4.1

61701 / Yuton / IL / 8.3 mi.

7,811

16,223

48.1

$37,783

16.9

3.7

9.8

0.2

1.5

61761 / Normal / IL / 6.2 mi.

7,062

15,108

46.7

$40,313

13.8

2.6

7.6

0.1

2.2

61764 / Vermillion Estat / IL / 24.7 mi.

1,934

5,202

37.2

$40,458

13.9

3.8

8.8

0.1

0.4

61727 / Texas Township / IL / 29.3 mi.

1,158

4,171

27.8

$39,868

3.7

1.7

0.6

0.1

0.3

61739 / Fairbury / IL / 24.8 mi.

1,046

1,822

57.4

$43,239

3.9

2.4

0.3

0.0

0.4

61364 / Streator West / IL / 34.4 mi.

957

8,315

11.5

$35,375

8.1

5.4

1.4

0.1

0.4

61752 / Le Roy / IL / 19.8 mi.

922

1,597

57.7

$48,951

1.3

1.0

0.1

62656 / Lincoln / IL / 34.8 mi.

876

7,055

12.4

$37,264

13.6

2.2

9.8

0.2

0.8

61738 / Panola / IL / 8.8 mi.

805

1,608

50.1

$49,596

1.7

0.7

0.2

61745 / Randolph / IL / 18.5 mi.

792

1,482

53.4

$56,906

2.2

0.6

0.2

0.1

0.3

61753 / Money Creek / IL / 8.8 mi.

655

1,144

57.3

$48,250

1.8

0.7

0.3

0.2

0.0

61748 / Hudson / IL / 0.4 mi.

637

957

66.6

$61,741

1.6

0.7

0.0

0.1

0.4

60420 / Dwight / IL / 41.5 mi.

560

1,947

28.8

$40,769

15.3

3.3

11.1

0.2

0.3

60936 / Gibson City / IL / 31.3 mi.

549

1,794

30.6

$35,189

2.3

0.8

0.5

0.0

0.5

61726 / Yates / IL / 14.1 mi.

516

1,045

49.4

$44,806

3.2

1.9

0.2

0.1

0.4

61760 / Woodford / IL / 19.3 mi.

503

1,038

48.5

$42,714

1.6

1.0

0.0

0.1

61732 / Danvers / IL / 10.7 mi.

423

746

56.7

$54,412

2.1

0.7

0.6

0.3

0.1

61744 / Waldo / IL / 10.3 mi.

415

746

55.6

$48,387

2.5

0.7

0.3

0.1

0.4

61723 / Atlanta / IL / 25.4 mi.

395

946

41.8

$43,673

1.1

0.7

0.1

0.0

61776 / Towanda / IL / 5 mi.

359

504

71.2

$62,171

1.8

0.7

0.5

0.0

0.3

61842 / Farmer City / IL / 28.7 mi.

347

1,147

30.3

$44,051

1.4

0.7

0.2

0.0

61736 / Holder / IL / 14.5 mi.

336

482

69.7

$57,426

1.7

0.6

0.5

0.1

0.2

61740 / Nebraska Townshi / IL / 18.5 mi.

331

651

50.8

$43,239

1.8

0.6

0.5

0.0

0.1

61728 / Martin / IL / 18.3 mi.

328

554

59.2

$44,250

1.6

1.0

0.0

0.4

0.1

61741 / Wing / IL / 29.5 mi.

317

651

48.7

$46,813

3.8

2.0

0.4

0.2

61759 / Minier / IL / 19.5 mi.

306

620

49.4

$40,958

2.0

1.0

0.3

0.1

61725 / Carlock / IL / 7.4 mi.

291

478

60.9

$57,315

2.5

0.6

0.3

0.1

0.8

61530 / Eureka / IL / 15.9 mi.

279

2,152

13.0

$46,639

2.8

1.0

0.5

0.3

0.4

61754 / McLean / IL / 20.9 mi.

274

492

55.7

$50,288

1.6

0.0

0.5

0.2

0.6

61755 / Mackinaw / IL / 18 mi.

256

1,472

17.4

$53,260

3.1

0.9

0.5

0.1

0.4

60921 / Chatsworth / IL / 35.2 mi.

252

668

37.7

$33,510

3.0

1.9

0.4

0.2

0.1

61770 / Saybrook / IL / 25.2 mi.

232

464

50.0

$41,042

1.2

0.4

0.3

0.0

0.1

60460 / Odell / IL / 34.2 mi.

200

595

33.6

$40,250

2.6

1.1

0.3

0.1

0.3

61774 / Stanford / IL / 16 mi.

195

386

50.5

$48,125

2.7

1.0

0.0

0.6

0.1

61777 / Wapella / IL / 24.8 mi.

188

398

47.2

$44,519

2.0

1.1

0.2

0.3

0.1

61561 / Roanoke / IL / 16.3 mi.

170

1,026

16.6

$45,982

0.9

0.1

0.0

60959 / Piper City / IL / 40.1 mi.

148

400

37.0

$37,692

3.0

1.1

0.1

0.3

0.7

61377 / Wenona / IL / 29 mi.

146

568

25.7

$37,647

2.9

1.2

0.3

0.1

61747 / Hopedale / IL / 24.1 mi.

128

510

25.1

$47,738

0.9

0.1

0.4

0.1

61737 / Padua / IL / 16.6 mi.

126

198

63.6

$53,802

5.2

0.7

0.9

1.4

0.4

61729 / Congerville / IL / 10.9 mi.

119

375

31.7

$51,094

2.5

0.2

0.0

0.3

61319 / Manville / IL / 27.7 mi.

115

441

26.1

$47,292

2.6

1.0

0.4

0.9

0.0

60929 / Cullom / IL / 39.2 mi.

114

326

35.0

$33,438

1.4

0.3

0.5

0.1

60957 / Paxton / IL / 44.7 mi.

113

2,190

5.2

$38,381

2.6

1.4

0.2

0.1

0.3

61771 / Secor / IL / 11.4 mi.

111

212

52.4

$43,824

0.7

0.0

0.2

0.0

0.2

61722 / West / IL / 20 mi.

107

213

50.2

$52,188

4.4

0.5

3.3

0.2

61778 / Waynesville / IL / 24.5 mi.

104

274

38.0

$40,536

1.4

0.4

0.0

61721 / Hittle / IL / 23.4 mi.

100

254

39.4

$43,929

2.1

1.4

0.0

0.3

61550 / Ossami Lake / IL / 23.5 mi.

6,711

1.5

$54,353

2.5

0.8

0.1

1.1

61369 / Toluca / IL / 26.7 mi.

706

13.9

$39,205

2.8

1.8

0.1

0.3

61615 / Peoria / IL / 33.7 mi.

7,707

1.2

$51,548

17.5

1.7

10.4

0.1

3.8

61742 / Goodfield / IL / 14.4 mi.

305

28.2

$61,111

0.4

0.0

0.1

0.0

0.1

61772 / Shirley / IL / 13.1 mi.

150

54.7

$67,917

2.6

1.0

0.0

0.3

1.0

62635 / Emden / IL / 31.6 mi.

264

30.7

$36,905

1.5

0.8

0.0

0.2

0.0

61730 / Cooksville / IL / 12.7 mi.

164

47.0

$50,074

0.5

0.3

0.0

61358 / Rutland / IL / 24.5 mi.

208

36.1

$33,182

1.7

0.2

0.8

0.2

61734 / Delavan / IL / 31.3 mi.

1,137

6.5

$45,737

1.8

0.3

0.4

0.0

0.2

61773 / Sibley / IL / 29.6 mi.

207

34.3

$41,818

3.3

2.9

0.0

0.2

0.0

61769 / Scovel / IL / 33.7 mi.

225

31.1

$47,727

1.9

1.4

0.2

0.0

60962 / Roberts / IL / 39.3 mi.

246

28.0

$41,635

1.7

0.9

0.0

0.7

0.0

61516 / Benson / IL / 17.1 mi.

270

25.6

$50,694

1.3

0.9

0.0

0.1

61724 / Kumler / IL / 28.6 mi.

235

27.7

$44,583

1.9

0.0

1.3

0.0

0.2

61568 / Tremont / IL / 25.2 mi.

1,500

4.1

$55,806

1.6

0.8

0.1

0.2

0.3

60952 / Melvin / IL / 36.1 mi.

278

21.6

$45,982

1.9

1.2

0.0

0.3

0.0

61735 / Dewitt / IL / 28.7 mi.

166

36.1

$45,972

4.2

0.5

0.3

0.7

0.5

61720 / Anchor / IL / 23.4 mi.

119

49.6

$50,089

2.5

0.0

0.3

0.0

60938 / Gilman / IL / 49.7 mi.

881

6.4

$35,898

9.1

8.1

0.3

0.0

0.3

61853 / Mahomet / IL / 39.2 mi.

3,672

1.5

$55,000

2.8

0.9

0.4

0.2

0.6

61820 / Champaign / IL / 48.2 mi.

12,638

0.4

$19,591

32.9

5.5

16.0

0.2

9.1

61333 / Long Point / IL / 26 mi.

159

30.2

$46,250

1.8

0.0

1.2

0.2

61731 / Cropsey / IL / 23 mi.

53.6

$42,625

7.5

3.5

2.4

0.0

61775 / Strawn / IL / 28.8 mi.

110

40.9

$42,679

5.8

0.3

2.9

0.0

0.3

62664 / Teheran / IL / 43.6 mi.

1,337

3.3

$37,574

1.2

0.7

0.1

0.2

61749 / Tunbridge / IL / 33.3 mi.

267

16.1

$39,432

1.7

0.9

0.5

0.0

0.3

62643 / Hartsburg / IL / 31.9 mi.

161

26.1

$39,000

0.2

0.0

0.2

0.0

61743 / Graymont / IL / 22.6 mi.

42.7

$41,250

1.9

1.1

0.0

0.4

62548 / Mount Pulaski / IL / 41.1 mi.

959

4.1

$40,361

0.8

0.3

0.0

0.1

62521 / Decatur / IL / 50.4 mi.

15,265

0.2

$39,449

18.5

0.9

15.5

0.2

0.6

61882 / Weldon / IL / 33.1 mi.

278

13.3

$44,000

2.9

0.2

0.0

1.0

0.4

61321 / Dana / IL / 24 mi.

125

28.8

$37,955

2.9

2.6

0.0

0.3

62512 / Beason / IL / 31.8 mi.

193

18.1

$57,875

1.1

0.9

0.0

62703 / Springfield / IL / 62.5 mi.

12,887

0.3

$31,844

37.0

1.2

32.6

0.3

0.9

60924 / Cissna Park / IL / 53.4 mi.

686

4.8

$38,029

2.0

1.1

0.2

0.1

0.4

60934 / Emington / IL / 38.6 mi.

118

28.0

$33,500

1.0

0.0

0.3

61571 / Washington / IL / 23.4 mi.

7,971

0.4

$50,553

2.1

0.6

0.3

0.1

0.5

61854 / Mansfield / IL / 34.6 mi.

635

5.0

$46,250

1.7

0.5

0.2

0.0

0.3

60955 / Onarga / IL / 48.9 mi.

677

4.6

$38,438

29.4

26.6

1.7

0.2

60424 / Gardner / IL / 48.6 mi.

901

3.3

$42,689

4.0

2.7

0.1

0.4

61843 / Fisher / IL / 36.3 mi.

787

3.7

$44,414

1.5

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.0

60968 / Thawville / IL / 42.8 mi.

180

15.6

$43,438

5.5

5.1

0.0

0.2

61733 / Deer Creek / IL / 16.9 mi.

371

7.5

$51,477

2.2

0.2

0.3

0.0

0.5

60933 / Elliott / IL / 36 mi.

130

18.5

$41,750

1.7

0.3

0.0

62682 / San Jose / IL / 36.2 mi.

373

6.4

$39,231

2.4

1.0

0.3

0.6

61570 / Wilbern / IL / 25.1 mi.

667

2.8

$44,792

2.8

1.0

0.4

0.1

0.2

61301 / Tomahawk Bluff / IL / 48.5 mi.

4,435

0.1

$33,333

10.5

7.8

1.2

0.1

0.5

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