Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Reporter-Times, Martinsville
Martinsville, Indiana
Owner: Schurz Communications (Ind.)
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	12.5
2004	Did not report
2003	16.7
2002	0.0
2001	0.0
2000	0.0
1999	0.0
1998	0.0
1997	0.0
1996	0.0
1995	0.0
1994	0.0
1993	0.0
1992	0.0
1991	0.0
1990	0.0
The latest year at peak is	2003
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Reporter-Times, Martinsville
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	12.5	1.8	698
2004	N/A	1.8	N/A
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, Schurz Communications (Ind.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 105.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Reporter-Times, Martinsville
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 698.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 1 out of 211
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 6,228 ranks 1038 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 Reporter-Times, Martinsville
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	0.8	290
Black	0.1	25
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.2	90
Native-American	0.2	64
Other non-white	0.0	12
Multi-racial	0.5	203
Non-white	1.8	684
White	98.2	37,503
Total		38,187
	Home county:  Morgan
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	0.7	490
Black	0.1	50
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.3	168
Native-American	0.2	141
Other non-white	0.0	20
Multi-racial	0.6	422
Non-white	1.9	1,291
White	98.1	65,398
Total		66,689
The home county of this newspaper is Morgan.
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
Reporter-Times, Martinsville
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
46151 / Waverly / IN / 0 mi.	4,920	12,001	41.0	$45,841	1.8	0.8	0.1	0.2	0.3
46158 / Mooresville / IN / 9.6 mi.	452	8,683	5.2	$50,114	2.1	0.7	0.1	0.3	0.3
46166 / Paragon / IN / 8.9 mi.	240	764	31.4	$42,125	1.5	0.6	0.0	0.2	0.1
46160 / Morgantown / IN / 9 mi.	183	2,229	8.2	$39,088	1.7	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.1
46157 / Monrovia / IN / 9.5 mi.	158	930	17.0	$57,500	1.7	0.8	0.0	0.2	0.2
46111 / Brooklyn / IN / 6.6 mi.	62	65	95.4	$41,111	1.1	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
47433 / Hollybrook Lake / IN / 13.8 mi.	57	1,270	4.5	$38,963	2.0	0.7	0.2	0.4	0.2
47456 / Quincy / IN / 18.4 mi.	33	285	11.6	$36,071	1.1	0.1	0.3	0.6	0.1
46113 / Camby / IN / 13.6 mi.	25	2,374	1.1	$52,352	3.4	1.2	0.8	0.3	0.3
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