Tribune-Star, Terre Haute... 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

Tribune-Star, Terre Haute

Terre Haute, Indiana

Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.)

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

6.5

2004

7.7

2003

Did not report

2002

12.5

2001

5.7

2000

5.6

1999

7.3

1998

4.0

1997

Did not report

1996

5.6

1995

2.7

1994

2.6

1993

5.0

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2002

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Tribune-Star, Terre Haute

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

6.5

6.7

2004

7.7

6.7

115

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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41.

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

Peer group comparison

for Tribune-Star, Terre Haute

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 96.

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 16 out of 140

newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.

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

approximately 27,178 ranks 376 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 Tribune-Star, Terre Haute

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.9

2,013

Black

3.8

8,129

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.7

1,497

Native-American

0.2

502

Other non-white

0.1

191

Multi-racial

0.9

2,033

Non-white

6.7

14,365

White

93.3

201,059

Total

215,424

Home county: Vigo

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.2

1,275

Black

6.0

6,334

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.3

1,322

Native-American

0.3

275

Other non-white

0.1

133

Multi-racial

1.3

1,325

Non-white

10.1

10,664

White

89.9

95,184

Total

105,848

The home county of this newspaper is Vigo.

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

Tribune-Star, Terre Haute

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

47802 / Youngstown Meadows / IN / 5.9 mi.

5,620

12,297

45.7

$36,015

12.2

1.7

6.7

0.4

2.0

47803 / Terre Haute / IN / 3 mi.

3,752

8,325

45.1

$41,207

6.7

1.1

3.4

0.1

1.0

47805 / Terre Haute / IN / 1.3 mi.

2,223

4,841

45.9

$40,086

3.7

0.7

1.8

0.2

0.3

47804 / Terre Haute / IN / 2.3 mi.

2,221

4,689

47.4

$27,085

7.7

0.9

5.2

0.2

0.3

47807 / Terre Haute / IN / 3.4 mi.

2,075

5,844

35.5

$19,819

22.9

1.6

15.9

0.4

2.4

47834 / Wey Lake / IN / 11.3 mi.

1,741

7,406

23.5

$36,948

2.1

0.6

0.5

0.2

0.1

47885 / Windemere Lake / IN / 5.8 mi.

1,413

3,935

35.9

$33,760

1.6

0.5

0.1

0.2

0.3

47842 / Syndicate / IN / 9.9 mi.

1,111

4,177

26.6

$33,108

2.1

0.6

0.3

0.2

0.1

62441 / Oliver / IL / 19.7 mi.

739

3,059

24.2

$38,740

1.6

0.4

0.1

0.2

47882 / Turman / IN / 26.7 mi.

701

3,439

20.4

$33,078

2.0

0.8

0.3

0.2

61944 / Paris / IL / 18.4 mi.

597

5,550

10.8

$34,964

4.2

0.9

2.5

0.1

0.2

47872 / Rockville / IN / 17.3 mi.

442

3,025

14.6

$36,034

6.4

0.8

3.9

0.4

0.3

47874 / West Atherton / IN / 7.8 mi.

370

1,364

27.1

$40,213

1.2

0.4

0.3

0.1

47850 / Farmersburg / IN / 16.9 mi.

347

1,021

34.0

$34,511

2.9

0.9

0.1

0.5

0.2

47879 / Wilfred / IN / 21.6 mi.

278

1,258

22.1

$31,478

2.1

0.4

0.3

0.1

0.2

47438 / Lonetree / IN / 23.8 mi.

268

1,945

13.8

$28,168

2.0

0.8

0.1

0.3

0.2

62454 / Trimble / IL / 37.9 mi.

217

4,366

5.0

$32,542

11.7

2.6

7.5

0.3

0.5

47841 / Martz / IN / 19.3 mi.

213

927

23.0

$34,199

1.5

0.7

0.0

0.3

0.0

47441 / Wright / IN / 32.2 mi.

209

3,949

5.3

$31,096

2.1

1.0

0.1

0.2

0.3

47427 / Hubbell / IN / 24.7 mi.

194

415

46.7

$33,276

2.5

1.3

0.0

0.2

47862 / West Union / IN / 17.9 mi.

167

668

25.0

$32,138

3.4

0.7

1.3

0.1

62442 / Neadmore / IL / 29.1 mi.

155

1,052

14.7

$34,441

0.7

0.2

0.1

62420 / Casey / IL / 34.7 mi.

145

2,053

7.1

$34,368

1.5

0.2

0.3

0.1

0.0

47840 / Sugar Ridge / IN / 15.2 mi.

139

606

22.9

$42,049

2.4

0.6

0.1

0.2

0.1

47848 / Gambill / IN / 29.2 mi.

127

686

18.5

$34,950

1.3

0.9

0.0

0.1

46135 / Mount Meridian / IN / 25.9 mi.

126

6,337

2.0

$35,365

8.5

1.5

4.9

0.3

0.9

47859 / Marshall / IN / 27.2 mi.

112

423

26.5

$35,682

1.2

0.2

0.0

0.1

47838 / Pleasantville / IN / 26.1 mi.

796

10.7

$36,018

25.1

1.5

21.7

0.5

0.1

47854 / Hillsdale / IN / 16.3 mi.

362

23.5

$43,542

2.0

0.3

0.5

47847 / Quaker / IN / 20.2 mi.

437

17.2

$36,036

2.4

1.1

0.4

0.0

0.4

47846 / Cory / IN / 11.1 mi.

294

24.8

$35,625

1.0

0.3

0.0

0.6

47858 / Lewis / IN / 15.2 mi.

260

26.9

$34,489

1.2

0.4

0.0

0.6

62423 / Dennison / IL / 13.5 mi.

285

24.2

$34,659

0.7

0.3

0.0

0.1

0.3

47866 / Pimento / IN / 14.6 mi.

164

39.6

$47,625

0.7

0.5

0.0

0.2

47855 / Hymera / IN / 21.4 mi.

262

23.3

$28,854

0.8

0.0

0.3

0.0

62477 / York / IL / 21.9 mi.

457

13.3

$33,000

1.2

0.1

0.2

0.0

47832 / Sylvania / IN / 21.7 mi.

405

13.3

$42,750

1.4

0.5

0.2

0.1

47837 / Smockville / IN / 15.1 mi.

448

11.2

$39,063

1.5

0.9

0.0

47928 / Cayuga / IN / 28.8 mi.

784

6.0

$34,615

1.9

0.6

0.2

0.5

0.2

47849 / Riverview / IN / 21.1 mi.

160

25.6

$39,583

1.2

0.7

0.0

47868 / Poland / IN / 19 mi.

1,210

3.3

$36,321

3.3

0.6

0.7

0.2

47966 / Newport / IN / 24 mi.

198

20.2

$32,778

2.9

1.5

0.0

0.4

47861 / Riverton / IN / 33.3 mi.

258

15.1

$34,167

1.7

0.3

0.1

0.0

46120 / Cunot / IN / 27.6 mi.

2,319

1.6

$41,492

2.5

0.8

0.3

0.1

62433 / Hutsonville / IL / 30.3 mi.

403

8.4

$34,500

1.7

0.5

1.0

0.2

0.0

47876 / Saint Mary of the Woods / IN / 6.2 mi.

0.0

3.3

0.0

1.4

0.0

1.4

47881 / Staunton / IN / 11.2 mi.

119

23.5

$36,250

1.8

0.3

0.0

0.3

62451 / Palestine / IL / 35.3 mi.

966

2.7

$30,875

1.5

0.7

0.1

0.0

0.4

47884 / Universal / IN / 10.4 mi.

167

13.8

$35,417

1.6

1.1

0.3

0.0

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