Journal and Courier, Lafayette... 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

Journal and Courier, Lafayette

Lafayette, Indiana

Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)

From a report for the Knight Foundation

by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005

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Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

2005

7.9

2004

5.0

2003

4.9

2002

6.8

2001

7.5

2000

11.9

1999

13.2

1998

13.9

1997

12.1

1996

13.2

1995

7.3

1994

13.6

1993

12.5

1992

10.8

1991

5.3

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1998

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Journal and Courier, Lafayette

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

7.9

9.9

2004

5.0

9.9

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, 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 Journal and Courier, Lafayette

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 80.

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 27 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 36,649 ranks 280 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 Journal and Courier, Lafayette

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.4

10,709

Black

1.6

3,887

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.8

6,838

Native-American

0.2

509

Other non-white

0.1

240

Multi-racial

0.8

2,048

Non-white

9.9

24,231

White

90.1

221,237

Total

245,468

Home county: Tippecanoe

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

5.3

7,834

Black

2.5

3,698

Asian and Pacific Islander

4.5

6,661

Native-American

0.2

350

Other non-white

0.2

220

Multi-racial

1.0

1,539

Non-white

13.6

20,302

White

86.4

128,653

Total

148,955

The home county of this newspaper is Tippecanoe.

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

Journal and Courier, Lafayette

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

47905 / Lafayette / IN / 6 mi.

8,311

14,720

56.5

$45,331

11.4

6.4

2.2

0.2

1.6

47906 / West Lafayette / IN / 6.4 mi.

6,372

18,059

35.3

$31,554

17.0

3.0

2.5

0.2

9.9

47909 / Lafayette / IN / 6 mi.

5,169

11,543

44.8

$45,461

11.2

6.7

2.6

0.2

0.8

47904 / Lafayette / IN / 1.1 mi.

2,987

6,787

44.0

$31,256

14.1

8.1

3.3

0.4

1.0

47960 / Monticello / IN / 22.4 mi.

1,142

6,126

18.6

$40,349

7.3

5.9

0.2

0.3

46923 / Delphi / IN / 15.4 mi.

1,019

3,084

33.0

$44,555

5.9

5.0

0.2

0.1

47918 / Attica / IN / 19.3 mi.

911

2,476

36.8

$36,325

2.1

1.0

0.1

0.3

0.2

46041 / Hillisburg / IN / 20.6 mi.

817

9,281

8.8

$38,318

10.7

9.6

0.2

0.1

0.2

47944 / Fowler / IN / 24.7 mi.

686

1,463

46.9

$40,351

3.0

1.7

0.2

0.0

0.1

47923 / Brookston / IN / 12 mi.

612

1,397

43.8

$46,496

2.1

1.2

0.1

0.3

47901 / Lafayette / IN / 0 mi.

588

1,820

32.3

$20,500

21.3

11.5

5.1

0.4

1.5

46065 / Rossville / IN / 14.6 mi.

537

1,076

49.9

$47,869

1.6

0.6

0.2

47978 / Rensselaer / IN / 36 mi.

504

4,025

12.5

$39,007

3.9

2.4

0.6

0.2

47993 / Williamsport / IN / 21.6 mi.

394

1,490

26.4

$41,550

0.8

0.4

0.1

0.0

0.2

47933 / Crawfordsville / IN / 24.8 mi.

380

10,785

3.5

$40,867

4.6

2.0

1.0

0.2

0.6

47920 / Battle Ground / IN / 7.8 mi.

374

802

46.6

$40,250

2.1

1.6

0.1

0.0

0.1

46929 / Flora / IN / 19.9 mi.

367

1,301

28.2

$39,426

2.2

1.6

0.2

0.1

0.0

47977 / Remington / IN / 25.8 mi.

326

878

37.1

$43,322

1.8

0.9

0.2

0.0

0.4

47951 / Kentland / IN / 35.7 mi.

319

945

33.8

$38,200

3.7

2.8

0.1

0.0

0.3

47970 / Otterbein / IN / 11.2 mi.

317

784

40.4

$43,189

1.7

0.7

0.1

0.0

47971 / Oxford / IN / 18.8 mi.

316

693

45.6

$41,414

1.8

0.8

0.1

46058 / Mulberry / IN / 13.2 mi.

312

760

41.1

$51,536

1.3

0.8

0.1

0.0

0.1

47992 / Westpoint / IN / 10.7 mi.

250

471

53.1

$58,611

1.9

1.0

0.2

47959 / Monon / IN / 29 mi.

220

1,119

19.7

$34,085

13.4

11.6

0.0

0.5

0.2

47946 / Francesville / IN / 36.8 mi.

214

793

27.0

$38,906

2.1

1.1

0.1

0.2

47995 / Wolcott / IN / 23.2 mi.

202

644

31.4

$38,873

2.9

1.3

0.6

0.1

0.0

47921 / Boswell / IN / 23.8 mi.

178

455

39.1

$35,714

10.0

7.8

0.2

47930 / Clarks Hill / IN / 13.6 mi.

162

403

40.2

$41,645

2.1

1.2

0.1

0.2

47948 / Goodland / IN / 30 mi.

158

555

28.5

$38,884

2.1

1.0

0.3

0.1

47941 / Dayton / IN / 6.7 mi.

148

219

67.6

$44,750

5.4

2.6

0.0

0.5

0.0

47981 / Romney / IN / 10.3 mi.

144

278

51.8

$46,932

1.2

0.0

0.9

0.1

46917 / Deer Creek / IN / 21.4 mi.

143

711

20.1

$40,363

1.5

0.9

0.2

0.0

47922 / Brook / IN / 37.1 mi.

130

635

20.5

$36,840

8.7

7.7

0.2

0.3

47975 / Pine Village / IN / 16.9 mi.

125

297

42.1

$46,016

1.9

0.8

0.0

0.7

0.1

47929 / Chalmers / IN / 16 mi.

122

296

41.2

$47,857

1.3

0.8

0.0

46913 / Bringhurst / IN / 18.9 mi.

107

487

22.0

$57,574

2.5

1.7

0.2

0.0

0.2

47942 / Earl Park / IN / 30.8 mi.

102

312

32.7

$33,077

2.7

2.4

0.1

47963 / Morocco / IN / 43.7 mi.

101

823

12.3

$35,094

2.2

1.5

0.1

0.2

47980 / Reynolds / IN / 21.5 mi.

411

24.1

$43,871

6.1

4.5

0.2

0.9

0.2

47991 / West Lebanon / IN / 26 mi.

418

23.7

$36,544

2.1

1.0

0.0

0.1

0.2

47955 / Linden / IN / 14.6 mi.

430

21.9

$41,488

2.5

0.6

0.5

0.7

0.0

46920 / Cutler / IN / 20.7 mi.

581

15.1

$45,833

2.1

1.5

0.1

0.0

46035 / Colfax / IN / 18 mi.

450

18.2

$40,550

1.9

1.7

0.0

0.2

47987 / Veedersburg / IN / 26.9 mi.

1,653

4.2

$39,481

2.5

1.8

0.1

47994 / Wingate / IN / 18 mi.

207

32.4

$36,083

0.8

0.2

0.0

0.2

47917 / Ambia / IN / 28.3 mi.

181

31.5

$36,500

9.7

8.9

0.0

47967 / New Richmond / IN / 14.9 mi.

308

18.5

$45,125

1.0

0.4

0.3

0.1

0.0

47957 / Medaryville / IN / 42.8 mi.

713

7.0

$32,277

6.0

2.7

2.2

0.6

0.1

47983 / Stockwell / IN / 10.2 mi.

67.6

$28,750

3.1

0.0

1.8

0.6

0.0

47990 / Waynetown / IN / 22.7 mi.

629

5.6

$42,083

1.3

0.6

0.1

0.0

47949 / Hillsboro / IN / 23.6 mi.

490

6.3

$41,250

0.6

0.2

0.0

0.1

0.0

47940 / Darlington / IN / 19.2 mi.

517

5.8

$42,697

1.3

0.6

0.1

46057 / Michigantown / IN / 23.6 mi.

410

5.6

$41,875

1.7

1.0

0.0

0.2

0.1

47925 / Buffalo / IN / 12.1 mi.

25.4

$40,208

2.2

1.7

0.0

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