Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Bolivar Commercial, Cleveland
Cleveland, Mississippi
Owner: Cleveland Newspapers (Tenn.)
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	23.1
2004	12.5
2003	Did not report
2002	Did not report
2001	Did not report
2000	0.0
1999	0.0
1998	0.0
1997	16.7
1996	0.0
1995	0.0
1994	0.0
1993	0.0
1992	Did not report
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 Bolivar Commercial, Cleveland
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	23.1	67.1	34
2004	12.5	67.1	19
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, Cleveland Newspapers (Tenn.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 6.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Bolivar Commercial, Cleveland
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 34.				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 66 out of 211
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 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 Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, Mississippi, with a 44.4 percent non-white staff in a community that is 67.1 percent non-white. Its index is 66.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 6,484 ranks 1016 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 Bolivar Commercial, Cleveland
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	1.2	557
Black	65.0	31,348
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.5	228
Native-American	0.1	46
Other non-white	0.0	13
Multi-racial	0.4	204
Non-white	67.1	32,396
White	32.9	15,853
Total		48,249
	Home county:  Bolivar
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	1.2	477
Black	64.8	26,345
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.5	202
Native-American	0.1	39
Other non-white	0.0	11
Multi-racial	0.5	194
Non-white	67.1	27,268
White	32.9	13,365
Total		40,633
The home county of this newspaper is Bolivar.
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 Bolivar Commercial, Cleveland
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
38732 / Cleveland / MS / 0 mi.	3,619	6,700	54.0	$27,856	53.9	1.2	51.5	0.1	0.8
38773 / Shaw / MS / 13.1 mi.	570	1,605	35.5	$22,500	75.4	1.1	73.7	0.0	0.1
38774 / Shelby / MS / 16.8 mi.	390	1,090	35.8	$16,607	89.6	1.3	87.6	0.1	0.2
38771 / Ruleville / MS / 16 mi.	382	1,121	34.1	$22,702	79.1	0.9	77.7	0.1	0.5
38730 / Boyle / MS / 8 mi.	354	532	66.5	$37,353	27.3	0.8	25.4	0.0	0.8
38769 / Rosedale / MS / 8.8 mi.	338	796	42.5	$18,208	82.7	1.2	80.3	0.0	0.4
38737 / Drew / MS / 18.5 mi.	334	1,209	27.6	$20,729	66.9	1.3	65.0	0.0	0.2
38762 / Mound Bayou / MS / 12.4 mi.	246	1,090	22.6	$18,697	98.8	0.4	97.5	0.1	0.2
38759 / Merigold / MS / 8.6 mi.	200	527	38.0	$26,250	41.4	2.2	38.0	0.3	0.2
38746 / Gunnison / MS / 14.4 mi.	129	391	33.0	$20,063	78.3	1.6	76.1	0.3	0.0
38764 / Pace / MS / 3.2 mi.	124	129	96.1	$19,688	93.7	1.6	90.7	1.1	0.0
38725 / Benoit / MS / 15.5 mi.	80	438	18.3	$21,648	65.8	1.3	63.2	0.2	0.2
38726 / Beulah / MS / 7.9 mi.	79	435	18.2	$17,393	85.6	1.1	83.2	0.0	0.8
38740 / Duncan / MS / 21.8 mi.	70	264	26.5	$14,236	73.8	2.3	70.4	0.1	0.0
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