Chronicle-Tribune, Marion... 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

Chronicle-Tribune, Marion

Marion, Indiana

Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)

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

23.8

2004

24.0

2003

10.0

2002

8.7

2001

8.7

2000

11.5

1999

17.9

1998

12.5

1997

12.5

1996

9.5

1995

Did not report

1994

4.2

1993

13.0

1992

8.7

1991

11.1

1990

8.7

The latest year at peak is

2004

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Chronicle-Tribune, Marion

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

23.8

9.3

255

2004

24.0

9.3

257

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, Gannett Co. (Va.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.

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

Peer group comparison

for Chronicle-Tribune, Marion

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 255.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 13 out of 259

newspapers reporting in the category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales.

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

approximately 17,414 ranks 543 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 Chronicle-Tribune, Marion

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.1

2,154

Black

5.1

5,311

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

530

Native-American

0.5

477

Other non-white

0.1

144

Multi-racial

1.1

1,104

Non-white

9.3

9,720

White

90.7

94,442

Total

104,162

Home county: Grant

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.4

1,787

Black

7.1

5,229

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.6

429

Native-American

0.4

298

Other non-white

0.2

127

Multi-racial

1.3

926

Non-white

12.0

8,796

White

88.0

64,607

Total

73,403

The home county of this newspaper is Grant.

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

Chronicle-Tribune, Marion

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

46952 / Marion / IN / 6.2 mi.

5,901

9,018

65.4

$37,234

9.6

2.2

4.1

0.4

1.2

46953 / Marion / IN / 0 mi.

5,412

9,886

54.7

$32,296

22.3

3.6

16.2

0.4

0.3

46933 / Gas City / IN / 2.6 mi.

1,494

2,467

60.6

$36,271

3.3

1.6

0.3

0.4

0.3

46928 / Fairmount / IN / 8.1 mi.

1,034

2,104

49.1

$40,662

2.0

0.7

0.2

0.5

0.2

46992 / Wabash / IN / 18.9 mi.

793

7,140

11.1

$39,404

3.4

1.1

0.4

0.8

0.5

46989 / Upland / IN / 9.4 mi.

668

1,241

53.8

$41,081

6.0

2.0

1.1

0.6

1.2

46919 / Converse / IN / 13.2 mi.

511

932

54.8

$40,673

4.3

3.0

0.1

0.3

0.2

46986 / Swayzee / IN / 10.1 mi.

427

753

56.7

$46,700

4.0

2.3

0.4

0.2

46938 / Jonesboro / IN / 4.6 mi.

422

1,370

30.8

$40,271

2.7

1.4

0.2

0.3

0.0

46940 / La Fontaine / IN / 12.7 mi.

370

1,241

29.8

$43,879

2.7

1.1

0.2

0.5

0.1

46987 / Sweetser / IN / 7.9 mi.

315

213

147.9

$39,545

4.0

3.0

0.0

0.6

0.0

46792 / Warren / IN / 17.5 mi.

261

1,432

18.2

$45,068

2.0

1.1

0.1

0.3

0.2

46991 / Van Buren / IN / 12.1 mi.

217

734

29.6

$42,647

2.0

1.0

0.1

0.2

0.1

47348 / Hartford City / IN / 15.5 mi.

198

4,373

4.5

$34,836

1.8

0.5

0.1

0.3

0.2

46750 / Huntington / IN / 29 mi.

141

10,549

1.3

$41,006

2.4

0.9

0.2

0.4

46070 / Summitville / IN / 12 mi.

919

10.4

$37,721

1.2

0.4

0.2

0.0

0.1

46957 / Matthews / IN / 11.4 mi.

153

61.4

$32,000

0.5

0.0

0.3

0.0

47359 / Montpelier / IN / 20.1 mi.

1,315

6.6

$32,831

2.2

0.8

0.1

0.2

0.0

46911 / Amboy / IN / 17.7 mi.

570

11.2

$47,604

2.6

1.6

0.0

0.2

46001 / Alexandria / IN / 18.1 mi.

4,802

0.6

$39,532

2.4

1.0

0.5

0.2

46702 / Andrews / IN / 21.4 mi.

900

3.0

$37,991

4.0

1.6

0.1

0.9

0.2

46941 / Lagro / IN / 23.9 mi.

468

3.8

$36,389

1.6

0.2

0.1

1.1

0.0

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