Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Arkansas City Traveler
Arkansas City, Kansas
Owner: Seaton (Kan.)
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	Did not report
2004	Did not report
2003	11.1
2002	0.0
2001	Did not report
2000	Did not report
1999	Did not report
1998	Did not report
1997	0.0
1996	Did not report
1995	Did not report
1994	0.0
1993	0.0
1992	Did not report
1991	0.0
1990	16.7
The latest year at peak is	1990
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Arkansas City Traveler
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	N/A	14.7	N/A
2004	N/A	14.7	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, Seaton (Kan.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 114.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Arkansas City Traveler
		This paper
						Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer 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 The Clanton Advertiser, Alabama, with a 25 percent non-white staff in a community that is 14.4 percent non-white. Its index is 174.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 4,832 ranks 1166 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 Arkansas City Traveler
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	4.5	535
Black	4.5	536
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.7	78
Native-American	2.5	298
Other non-white	0.0	2
Multi-racial	2.6	311
Non-white	14.7	1,760
White	85.3	10,203
Total		11,963
	Home county:  Cowley
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	3.6	1,304
Black	2.7	971
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.5	555
Native-American	1.8	658
Other non-white	0.1	18
Multi-racial	1.9	694
Non-white	11.6	4,200
White	88.4	32,091
Total		36,291
The home county of this newspaper is Cowley.
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: Newspaper's home city.
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.
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