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| Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
| at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
| with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
| Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
| The Daily Star-Journal, Warrensburg | ||||||||||
| Warrensburg, Missouri | ||||||||||
| 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 | 20.0 | |||||||||
| 2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 2003 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 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 | Did not report | |||||||||
| 1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
| The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
| See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
| Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
| for The Daily Star-Journal, Warrensburg | ||||||||||
| Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
| 2005 | 20.0 | 11.1 | 180 | |||||||
| 2004 | N/A | 11.1 | 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.) | ||||||||||
| See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
| Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
| for The Daily Star-Journal, Warrensburg | ||||||||||
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| This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 180. | This paper | |||||||||
| Peer group | ||||||||||
| Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
| reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer daily sales. | ||||||||||
| In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 7 out of 132 | ||||||||||
| newspapers reporting in the category of 5,000 and fewer daily sales. | ||||||||||
| FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
| approximately 4,664 ranks 1182 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 Daily Star-Journal, Warrensburg | ||||||||||
| Circulation area | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 2.8 | 1,154 | ||||||||
| Black | 4.1 | 1,675 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6 | 645 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 0.6 | 251 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.2 | 67 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 1.8 | 725 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 11.1 | 4,517 | ||||||||
| White | 88.9 | 36,046 | ||||||||
| Total | 40,563 | |||||||||
| Home county: Johnson | ||||||||||
| Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents | 
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| Hispanic | 2.9 | 1,407 | ||||||||
| Black | 4.3 | 2,064 | ||||||||
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.5 | 743 | ||||||||
| Native-American | 0.6 | 297 | ||||||||
| Other non-white | 0.2 | 75 | ||||||||
| Multi-racial | 1.8 | 869 | ||||||||
| Non-white | 11.3 | 5,455 | ||||||||
| White | 88.7 | 42,803 | ||||||||
| Total | 48,258 | |||||||||
| The home county of this newspaper is Johnson. | ||||||||||
| 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 Daily Star-Journal, Warrensburg | ||||||||||
| 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 |
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| 64093 / Warrensburg / MO / 0 mi. | 2,994 | 8,906 | 33.6 | $33,448 | 12.1 | 2.2 | 5.0 | 0.6 | 2.2 | |
| 65336 / Knob Noster / MO / 12.2 mi. | 312 | 2,080 | 15.0 | $32,486 | 20.8 | 8.9 | 7.1 | 0.7 | 1.6 | |
| 64040 / Holden / MO / 17.1 mi. | 274 | 2,270 | 12.1 | $37,589 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
| 64019 / Centerview / MO / 10.7 mi. | 200 | 818 | 24.4 | $39,844 | 4.1 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | |
| 64761 / Leeton / MO / 14 mi. | 109 | 570 | 19.1 | $32,500 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
| 64733 / Chilhowee / MO / 17.3 mi. | 84 | 431 | 19.5 | $32,802 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
| 64061 / Kingsville / MO / 19.8 mi. | 40 | 997 | 4.0 | $46,715 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.1 | |
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| Time | 5/15/05 8:10 PM | |||||||||
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