The Ann Arbor News... 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

The Ann Arbor News

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Owner: Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.)

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

6.9

2004

7.4

2003

7.1

2002

8.5

2001

7.2

2000

8.6

1999

18.6

1998

11.8

1997

12.3

1996

14.3

1995

16.1

1994

15.6

1993

12.3

1992

Did not report

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1999

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Ann Arbor News

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

6.9

20.3

2004

7.4

20.3

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, Advance (Newhouse) (N.Y.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 63.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Ann Arbor News

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 34.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 63 out of 90

newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 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 Florida Today, Melbourne, Florida, with a 19.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 16.3 percent non-white. Its index is 117.

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

approximately 50,815 ranks 200 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 The Ann Arbor News

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.6

10,904

Black

10.3

44,080

Asian and Pacific Islander

4.8

20,640

Native-American

0.4

1,476

Other non-white

0.2

963

Multi-racial

2.0

8,598

Non-white

20.3

86,661

White

79.7

339,494

Total

426,155

Home county: Washtenaw

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

2.7

8,839

Black

12.2

39,326

Asian and Pacific Islander

6.3

20,377

Native-American

0.3

1,042

Other non-white

0.3

864

Multi-racial

2.3

7,414

Non-white

24.1

77,862

White

75.9

245,033

Total

322,895

The home county of this newspaper is Washtenaw.

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

The Ann Arbor News

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

48103 / Ann Arbor / MI / 6.4 mi.

10,890

20,877

52.2

$61,809

17.6

2.5

7.3

0.2

5.1

48104 / Ann Arbor / MI / 0 mi.

6,857

16,140

42.5

$39,839

21.6

3.6

5.1

0.2

9.9

48197 / Ypsilanti / MI / 6.7 mi.

5,307

21,681

24.5

$44,171

36.1

3.1

24.6

0.4

4.6

48105 / Ann Arbor / MI / 4.5 mi.

4,651

13,785

33.7

$51,476

34.6

2.8

7.7

0.2

20.9

48108 / Ann Arbor / MI / 2.8 mi.

3,667

9,623

38.1

$49,882

35.2

4.0

16.6

0.4

10.3

48176 / Saline / MI / 9 mi.

3,217

6,489

49.6

$77,274

5.3

1.3

0.8

0.2

1.9

48198 / Ypsilanti / MI / 7 mi.

3,204

15,785

20.3

$41,048

36.5

2.5

29.3

0.5

1.3

48118 / Chelsea / MI / 16.3 mi.

2,042

4,259

47.9

$65,667

4.9

1.3

1.8

0.4

0.5

48111 / Belleville / MI / 13.4 mi.

1,838

15,712

11.7

$50,135

17.4

2.2

11.4

0.5

1.3

48130 / Dexter / MI / 11 mi.

1,812

3,816

47.5

$73,051

3.4

1.2

0.3

0.8

48160 / Milan / MI / 12.7 mi.

1,368

4,121

33.2

$58,193

16.5

3.9

10.6

0.3

0.5

48169 / Pinckney / MI / 18.1 mi.

1,183

6,888

17.2

$67,593

3.6

1.0

0.3

0.4

48189 / Whitmore Lake / MI / 10.4 mi.

1,100

5,127

21.5

$59,203

5.7

1.3

2.2

0.4

0.6

48116 / Brighton / MI / 18.8 mi.

992

9,382

10.6

$69,968

3.8

1.4

0.3

0.4

0.9

48158 / Manchester / MI / 17.2 mi.

929

2,646

35.1

$61,117

4.9

3.4

0.3

0.2

49286 / Tecumseh / MI / 20.4 mi.

714

5,457

13.1

$53,325

6.1

4.1

0.2

0.5

0.6

48178 / South Lyon / MI / 12.8 mi.

632

8,857

7.1

$67,463

3.6

1.3

0.3

0.8

49236 / Clinton / MI / 16.9 mi.

386

1,827

21.1

$52,604

2.5

1.3

0.2

0.4

0.1

48843 / Howell / MI / 23 mi.

364

15,605

2.3

$64,265

3.7

1.4

0.2

0.4

0.6

48114 / Brighton / MI / 18.6 mi.

356

6,678

5.3

$78,171

3.3

1.0

0.4

0.3

0.8

48170 / Plymouth / MI / 11.9 mi.

336

16,152

2.1

$67,360

7.4

1.5

2.2

0.3

2.2

48137 / Gregory / MI / 22.5 mi.

274

1,606

17.1

$58,429

6.1

3.3

0.8

0.4

0.3

48187 / Canton / MI / 12.6 mi.

265

16,337

1.6

$71,694

16.7

2.2

3.9

0.2

8.5

48191 / Willis / MI / 13 mi.

255

952

26.8

$69,180

7.9

0.7

5.4

0.3

49240 / Grass Lake / MI / 23.3 mi.

178

2,647

6.7

$58,792

3.7

1.0

1.7

0.3

0.1

48188 / Canton / MI / 12.1 mi.

142

11,248

1.3

$73,963

19.1

2.5

5.3

0.3

9.0

48143 / Lakeland / MI / 15.2 mi.

107

668.8

$35,250

2.6

0.0

49221 / Adrian / MI / 30.3 mi.

14,205

0.6

$41,924

18.8

11.8

4.7

0.4

0.7

48139 / Hamburg / MI / 13.4 mi.

212.2

$66,500

2.6

0.0

2.6

0.0

49229 / Britton / MI / 20 mi.

1,061

7.4

$52,071

4.4

2.9

0.2

0.3

0.2

48167 / Northville / MI / 14.5 mi.

14,349

0.5

$79,579

9.6

1.7

3.0

0.2

3.5

48165 / New Hudson / MI / 17.2 mi.

1,900

2.4

$66,875

4.0

1.8

0.3

0.4

48190 / Whittaker / MI / 11.2 mi.

82.1

$89,508

11.3

0.0

2.8

0.0

49285 / Stockbridge / MI / 28.7 mi.

1,785

1.7

$50,685

3.9

1.6

0.4

0.5

0.3

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