The North Platte Telegraph... 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 North Platte Telegraph

North Platte, Nebraska

Owner: Omaha World-Herald

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

Did not report

2002

0.0

2001

Did not report

2000

0.0

1999

Did not report

1998

0.0

1997

0.0

1996

0.0

1995

6.7

1994

6.3

1993

6.3

1992

7.7

1991

14.3

1990

13.3

The latest year at peak is

1991

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The North Platte Telegraph

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

N/A

6.3

N/A

2004

N/A

6.2

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, Omaha World-Herald,

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 61.

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

Peer group comparison

for The North Platte Telegraph

This paper

Peer group

The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 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 The Herald, Sharon, Pennsylvania, with a 8 percent non-white staff in a community that is 7.3 percent non-white. Its index is 110.

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

approximately 12,970 ranks 678 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 North Platte Telegraph

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.6

3,158

Black

0.3

215

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.3

206

Native-American

0.4

253

Other non-white

0.0

Multi-racial

0.6

390

Non-white

6.2

4,244

White

93.8

64,129

Total

68,373

Home county: Lincoln

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

5.4

1,880

Black

0.5

179

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.4

131

Native-American

0.4

137

Other non-white

0.0

Multi-racial

0.7

228

Non-white

7.4

2,560

White

92.6

32,072

Total

34,632

The home county of this newspaper is Lincoln.

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 North Platte Telegraph

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

69101 / North Platte / NE / 0.4 mi.

7,520

11,658

64.5

$36,346

8.1

5.9

0.6

0.4

69153 / Roscoe / NE / 46.2 mi.

589

2,550

23.1

$34,307

5.8

4.7

0.0

0.6

0.2

69138 / Gothenburg / NE / 32.3 mi.

548

1,802

30.4

$36,121

4.8

3.6

0.4

0.3

0.2

69130 / Darr / NE / 41.9 mi.

427

2,247

19.0

$34,022

10.5

9.1

0.1

0.2

0.3

69165 / Sutherland / NE / 17.4 mi.

333

638

52.2

$38,871

5.1

4.0

0.1

69143 / Hershey / NE / 11.6 mi.

305

569

53.6

$42,222

6.9

5.4

0.3

0.1

0.3

68850 / Lexington / NE / 54.8 mi.

274

3,802

7.2

$38,304

47.6

45.2

0.3

0.7

1.0

69163 / Stapleton / NE / 25.1 mi.

185

341

54.3

$33,864

1.7

0.9

0.1

0.4

0.0

69120 / Cliff / NE / 33.3 mi.

178

446

39.9

$27,450

1.7

1.2

0.0

0.3

0.0

69140 / Grant / NE / 50.4 mi.

178

739

24.1

$34,148

2.5

1.1

0.0

0.3

0.1

69155 / Thune / NE / 29.9 mi.

175

434

40.3

$30,781

3.7

1.8

0.4

0.6

0.4

69025 / Curtis / NE / 34.8 mi.

163

485

33.6

$32,361

2.5

1.1

0.2

69123 / Brady / NE / 19.8 mi.

150

389

38.6

$33,487

1.7

0.6

0.1

0.2

0.1

69151 / Maxwell / NE / 12.3 mi.

145

304

47.7

$32,292

3.6

2.3

0.5

0.3

0.0

68822 / Broken Bow / NE / 57.2 mi.

141

2,015

7.0

$31,777

2.0

0.7

0.1

0.5

0.1

69152 / Mullen / NE / 59.8 mi.

134

380

35.3

$28,676

2.0

0.9

0.0

0.3

0.2

69169 / Wallace / NE / 27.4 mi.

128

259

49.4

$36,458

1.5

1.2

0.0

0.2

0.0

68825 / Triumph / NE / 42.1 mi.

119

441

27.0

$32,969

2.5

1.1

0.0

0.3

0.5

69028 / Eustis / NE / 47.3 mi.

373

25.5

$33,241

1.3

0.8

0.1

0.0

0.3

69038 / Maywood / NE / 39.8 mi.

192

46.9

$31,544

1.8

0.6

0.0

0.6

0.2

69166 / Thedford / NE / 55.1 mi.

203

40.4

$31,667

1.3

1.1

0.0

0.2

0.0

69167 / Tryon / NE / 31.3 mi.

182

39.6

$25,167

0.9

0.0

69134 / Elsie / NE / 34.4 mi.

146

47.3

$40,417

1.3

0.0

0.3

0.0

69150 / Madrid / NE / 41.6 mi.

207

31.4

$35,227

6.6

5.6

0.0

0.2

0.9

69170 / Wellfleet / NE / 22.1 mi.

119

52.1

$37,125

4.9

4.0

0.0

0.6

0.0

69127 / Brule / NE / 54.6 mi.

330

17.9

$27,000

8.4

7.1

0.0

0.8

0.1

69029 / Farnam / NE / 38.7 mi.

139

41.7

$30,481

2.1

0.6

0.0

0.3

0.0

68937 / Johnson Lake / NE / 56.6 mi.

796

6.8

$37,804

2.6

2.0

0.1

0.2

68856 / Merna / NE / 47.6 mi.

242

21.9

$31,333

1.7

0.9

0.3

0.0

68813 / Victoria / NE / 58.3 mi.

266

15.4

$32,045

1.4

0.0

0.1

0.6

69121 / Arthur / NE / 52.8 mi.

139

27.3

$30,536

4.5

0.9

0.0

0.3

0.6

69122 / Big Springs / NE / 67 mi.

320

10.6

$29,265

6.9

6.2

0.0

0.5

0.0

69147 / Lewellen / NE / 67.9 mi.

384

8.6

$26,346

3.8

1.0

0.5

0.3

0.6

69201 / Valentine / NE / 112.5 mi.

1,658

1.9

$29,877

6.7

0.9

0.0

4.2

0.5

68833 / Dunning / NE / 54 mi.

134

19.4

$26,719

3.0

1.0

0.0

2.0

0.0

69032 / Hayes Center / NE / 40.6 mi.

251

10.4

$26,908

5.7

4.1

0.3

0.0

0.5

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