Dayton Daily 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

Dayton Daily News

Dayton, Ohio

Owner: Cox Enterprises (Ga.)

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

13.7

2004

14.3

2003

13.2

2002

13.2

2001

13.8

2000

15.1

1999

15.8

1998

16.2

1997

14.5

1996

14.7

1995

12.9

1994

11.9

1993

12.2

1992

11.9

1991

9.7

1990

11.6

The latest year at peak is

1998

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Dayton Daily News

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

13.7

15.8

2004

14.3

16.0

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, Cox Enterprises (Ga.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 66.

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

Peer group comparison

for Dayton Daily News

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 86.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 12 out of 58

newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 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 Detroit News, Michigan, with a 26.2 percent non-white staff in a community that is 21.6 percent non-white. Its index is 121.

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

approximately 122,639 ranks 86 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 Dayton Daily News

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.1

11,914

Black

12.1

125,994

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.2

12,597

Native-American

0.2

2,170

Other non-white

0.1

1,390

Multi-racial

1.2

12,862

Non-white

16.0

166,927

White

84.0

877,435

Total

1,044,362

Home county: Montgomery

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.3

7,096

Black

19.8

110,454

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.3

7,443

Native-American

0.2

1,182

Other non-white

0.2

949

Multi-racial

1.4

7,755

Non-white

24.1

134,879

White

75.9

424,183

Total

559,062

The home county of this newspaper is Montgomery.

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

Dayton Daily 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

45424 / Huber Heights / OH / 6.2 mi.

7,684

18,181

42.3

$50,551

16.2

1.7

9.7

0.3

2.3

45459 / Washington Township / OH / 7.9 mi.

6,970

11,917

58.5

$60,170

7.5

1.2

2.1

0.1

3.0

45429 / Washington Township / OH / 4.8 mi.

6,562

12,141

54.0

$51,411

5.2

1.0

0.2

1.9

45342 / Miamisburg / OH / 9.1 mi.

5,379

12,943

41.6

$46,003

7.0

1.0

2.6

0.1

2.0

45458 / Washington Township / OH / 9.4 mi.

5,124

10,364

49.4

$65,059

10.1

1.3

3.6

0.1

4.0

45324 / Fairborn / OH / 8.8 mi.

5,025

16,076

31.3

$37,745

13.6

1.7

6.7

0.3

3.0

45420 / Kettering / OH / 3.5 mi.

4,820

12,487

38.6

$36,311

5.6

1.3

2.0

0.3

0.9

45385 / Xenia / OH / 12.4 mi.

4,273

13,239

32.3

$41,396

15.4

1.0

12.0

0.3

0.4

45440 / Washington Township / OH / 6.5 mi.

4,143

8,211

50.5

$52,803

7.2

1.1

2.5

0.1

2.3

45414 / Northridge / OH / 4.6 mi.

4,011

8,956

44.8

$37,535

12.8

0.9

9.4

0.2

0.8

45402 / Dayton / OH / 0 mi.

3,985

1,502

265.3

$13,607

42.9

1.9

37.9

0.5

0.6

45322 / Union / OH / 9.6 mi.

3,888

8,048

48.3

$49,781

6.8

0.9

3.7

0.2

0.9

45406 / Trotwood / OH / 3.5 mi.

3,800

11,331

33.5

$30,661

82.8

1.1

79.0

0.2

0.3

45373 / Troy / OH / 17.9 mi.

3,746

12,669

29.6

$44,401

7.5

0.8

3.5

0.2

1.7

45431 / WPAFB / OH / 3.3 mi.

3,636

8,809

41.3

$43,523

13.4

2.3

5.6

0.2

3.5

45449 / West Carrollton / OH / 6.7 mi.

3,150

8,206

38.4

$42,774

9.4

1.3

5.0

0.2

1.6

45419 / Oakwood / OH / 2.9 mi.

3,147

6,810

46.2

$51,885

4.2

1.1

1.0

0.2

1.0

45377 / Vandalia / OH / 8.5 mi.

3,121

6,303

49.5

$45,576

3.9

0.8

0.9

0.2

1.0

45426 / Trotwood / OH / 6.4 mi.

3,079

7,236

42.6

$36,155

68.1

0.9

64.3

0.3

45066 / Springboro / OH / 13 mi.

3,049

5,753

53.0

$75,510

4.2

1.0

0.8

0.2

1.4

45432 / Kettering / OH / 5.9 mi.

2,831

6,598

42.9

$44,942

6.9

1.2

2.3

0.2

1.8

45415 / Trotwood / OH / 6.1 mi.

2,667

5,318

50.2

$52,056

19.1

1.1

15.1

0.1

1.6

45371 / Tipp City / OH / 12.5 mi.

2,643

6,639

39.8

$52,623

2.5

0.9

0.2

0.6

45405 / Dayton / OH / 2.3 mi.

2,610

10,406

25.1

$29,468

53.3

1.6

48.0

0.3

0.6

45434 / Dayton / OH / 7.9 mi.

2,394

3,444

69.5

$77,207

7.1

1.1

1.3

0.2

3.5

45410 / Dayton / OH / 1.5 mi.

2,198

7,710

28.5

$29,103

9.4

2.4

3.6

0.3

1.1

45331 / Greenville / OH / 31 mi.

2,178

9,448

23.1

$36,784

2.8

1.0

0.5

0.1

0.4

45439 / West Carrollton / OH / 4.2 mi.

2,125

4,589

46.3

$36,199

9.1

1.4

3.4

0.3

2.3

45356 / Piqua / OH / 25.3 mi.

2,067

10,025

20.6

$37,684

5.5

0.7

2.9

0.3

0.4

45309 / Brookville / OH / 12.7 mi.

2,065

4,767

43.3

$44,828

1.8

0.5

0.1

0.2

0.4

45403 / Dayton / OH / 1.6 mi.

2,027

6,916

29.3

$27,614

10.4

2.2

4.7

0.3

0.9

45409 / Oakwood / OH / 2.3 mi.

2,027

3,482

58.2

$41,753

8.0

2.0

3.8

0.2

1.0

45404 / Dayton / OH / 2.1 mi.

1,969

5,230

37.6

$25,428

18.0

1.5

13.6

0.4

0.6

45305 / Bellbrook / OH / 9.3 mi.

1,623

3,570

45.5

$63,085

5.3

1.1

1.8

0.3

1.3

45365 / Sidney / OH / 34.1 mi.

1,451

11,443

12.7

$41,830

6.3

1.0

2.2

0.2

1.5

45430 / Kettering / OH / 6.1 mi.

1,450

2,597

55.8

$69,510

5.3

1.1

0.9

0.2

2.1

45005 / Franklin / OH / 14.7 mi.

1,390

10,948

12.7

$43,605

2.8

0.6

0.9

0.1

0.4

45417 / Dayton / OH / 2.8 mi.

1,356

4,596

29.5

$20,800

96.7

1.0

94.0

0.2

0.1

45344 / New Carlisle / OH / 14.4 mi.

1,255

6,663

18.8

$43,066

4.1

2.1

0.3

0.2

0.3

45320 / Eaton / OH / 24.2 mi.

1,208

5,750

21.0

$41,860

2.1

0.5

0.1

0.4

45427 / Trotwood / OH / 4.7 mi.

1,150

4,210

27.3

$24,218

59.5

0.7

56.4

0.3

0.2

45408 / Dayton / OH / 2.4 mi.

1,147

4,400

26.1

$19,037

98.3

0.8

95.7

0.2

45036 / Otterbien Home / OH / 20.2 mi.

1,146

9,489

12.1

$53,063

12.1

1.1

9.1

0.3

0.6

45327 / Germantown / OH / 12.9 mi.

1,130

3,128

36.1

$51,460

1.9

0.6

0.1

0.2

45383 / West Milton / OH / 14.6 mi.

1,068

2,861

37.3

$45,000

1.8

0.5

0.2

0.1

0.2

45407 / Dayton / OH / 1.9 mi.

1,051

4,221

24.9

$19,043

95.8

1.0

92.5

0.3

0.2

45068 / Waynesville / OH / 15.5 mi.

980

3,240

30.2

$55,445

2.5

1.0

0.2

45315 / Englewood / OH / 9.5 mi.

932

1,225

76.1

$52,708

14.9

0.9

10.9

0.4

1.0

45345 / New Lebanon / OH / 10.4 mi.

921

2,530

36.4

$44,303

3.2

0.6

1.5

0.2

0.1

45416 / Trotwood / OH / 4.5 mi.

855

2,391

35.8

$38,086

57.3

0.7

54.1

0.3

0.2

45418 / Trotwood / OH / 5 mi.

814

2,243

36.3

$38,475

65.0

0.6

62.9

0.1

0.4

45304 / Ithaca / OH / 22.7 mi.

791

2,809

28.2

$44,911

1.9

0.4

0.2

0.3

0.2

45387 / Yellow Springs / OH / 14.6 mi.

747

2,251

33.2

$54,603

19.0

1.6

11.3

0.3

1.2

45177 / Wilmington / OH / 26 mi.

733

8,234

8.9

$40,348

6.5

0.7

4.0

0.2

0.5

45381 / West Alexandria / OH / 17.4 mi.

638

2,205

28.9

$44,212

1.5

0.2

0.3

0.5

0.2

45338 / Lewisburg / OH / 18.6 mi.

626

1,997

31.3

$46,622

1.9

0.6

0.1

0.3

0.4

45380 / Versailles / OH / 34.8 mi.

613

1,939

31.6

$43,529

0.6

0.1

0.0

0.1

45822 / Celina / OH / 54.5 mi.

519

7,562

6.9

$40,147

3.2

1.6

0.1

0.2

0.5

45433 / Wright Patterson AFB / OH / 7.6 mi.

508

778

65.3

$50,965

21.8

3.3

12.5

0.4

2.2

45865 / Minster / OH / 42.5 mi.

465

1,724

27.0

$51,038

0.7

0.1

0.0

0.1

45318 / Covington / OH / 25 mi.

419

2,053

20.4

$43,750

1.4

0.6

0.2

0.1

0.0

45335 / Jamestown / OH / 23 mi.

413

2,478

16.7

$47,200

4.2

0.7

1.7

0.6

0.4

45885 / Saint Marys / OH / 51.7 mi.

381

5,019

7.6

$41,164

2.7

0.5

0.3

0.2

0.9

45323 / Enon / OH / 14.2 mi.

378

2,181

17.3

$50,208

3.5

1.0

0.6

0.2

0.6

45341 / Medway / OH / 11.2 mi.

367

1,717

21.4

$38,191

6.2

3.9

0.6

0.1

0.3

45325 / Germantown / OH / 12.5 mi.

359

897

40.0

$48,875

1.9

0.4

0.5

0.0

0.4

45370 / Spring Valley / OH / 10.4 mi.

322

966

33.3

$56,019

2.7

0.2

0.7

0.4

0.2

45042 / West Middletown / OH / 18 mi.

317

10,961

2.9

$44,979

3.9

0.5

2.0

0.2

0.3

45828 / Coldwater / OH / 52.2 mi.

314

2,179

14.4

$45,140

1.7

1.0

0.1

0.2

0.1

45044 / Middletown / OH / 20.1 mi.

299

17,305

1.7

$38,526

15.0

1.1

11.6

0.2

0.7

45845 / Newport / OH / 37.8 mi.

282

1,011

27.9

$53,700

0.8

0.3

0.1

0.0

0.1

45308 / Bradford / OH / 27.8 mi.

278

1,740

16.0

$41,491

1.5

0.4

0.2

0.3

0.2

45883 / Saint Henry / OH / 47.4 mi.

246

1,124

21.9

$51,507

1.2

1.0

0.1

0.0

45312 / Casstown / OH / 19.9 mi.

219

509

43.0

$53,897

0.9

0.6

0.0

0.1

45337 / Laura / OH / 18.9 mi.

209

756

27.6

$49,813

2.4

0.9

0.1

45869 / New Bremen / OH / 45.3 mi.

200

1,616

12.4

$53,207

1.9

0.4

0.1

0.3

0.4

45314 / Cedarville / OH / 19.7 mi.

197

1,204

16.4

$42,469

4.9

0.7

1.9

0.3

0.7

45302 / Anna / OH / 41.3 mi.

183

1,263

14.5

$57,609

1.9

0.5

0.2

0.1

0.7

45346 / New Madison / OH / 29.8 mi.

175

885

19.8

$38,816

1.7

0.2

0.1

0.2

45504 / Springfield / OH / 20.5 mi.

174

7,327

2.4

$42,541

7.0

0.9

3.5

0.3

0.9

45359 / Pleasant Hill / OH / 20.7 mi.

171

699

24.5

$44,712

0.8

0.2

0.1

0.2

45502 / Springfield / OH / 20.8 mi.

164

6,082

2.7

$54,457

4.4

0.6

2.2

0.2

0.4

45860 / Maria Stein / OH / 44.2 mi.

160

683

23.4

$52,361

0.5

0.4

0.0

45311 / Morning Sun / OH / 25.1 mi.

159

2,752

5.8

$41,502

1.5

0.4

0.2

0.1

45339 / Ludlow Falls / OH / 17.7 mi.

139

501

27.7

$50,288

0.8

0.2

0.0

0.2

45363 / Russia / OH / 32.9 mi.

125

511

24.5

$57,763

1.5

0.6

0.1

0.3

45846 / Fort Recovery / OH / 50.7 mi.

122

1,410

8.7

$46,250

1.2

0.3

0.0

0.2

0.3

45895 / Wapakoneta / OH / 52.9 mi.

118

6,737

1.8

$44,187

1.9

0.7

0.2

0.1

0.3

45303 / Ansonia / OH / 37 mi.

113

828

13.6

$40,865

1.7

1.1

0.1

0.3

0.1

45390 / Union City / OH / 41.4 mi.

110

1,380

8.0

$31,932

5.2

3.1

0.9

0.2

0.3

43078 / Urbana / OH / 30.7 mi.

106

8,332

1.3

$40,954

6.7

0.9

3.7

0.3

0.4

45354 / Phillipsburg / OH / 14.1 mi.

105

121

86.8

$43,393

0.7

0.0

0.7

0.0

45503 / Springfield / OH / 23.6 mi.

13,821

0.7

$40,113

8.9

0.9

5.5

0.1

1.0

43311 / Bellfntn / OH / 44.1 mi.

7,459

1.2

$40,233

7.3

0.9

3.7

0.1

0.8

45056 / Reily / OH / 32.5 mi.

7,960

1.1

$34,199

8.3

1.2

3.6

0.2

2.0

43072 / Saint Paris / OH / 26.3 mi.

2,126

4.1

$43,750

2.1

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

43160 / Washington Court House / OH / 39.6 mi.

8,710

1.0

$36,087

5.0

1.3

1.9

0.1

0.6

47390 / Union City / IN / 42.3 mi.

2,284

3.7

$31,372

5.2

3.2

0.7

0.2

45347 / New Paris / OH / 30 mi.

1,686

4.7

$38,189

1.4

0.1

0.3

0.1

43348 / Russells Point / OH / 48.1 mi.

1,075

6.9

$31,824

2.8

1.4

0.1

0.3

45050 / Monroe / OH / 22.2 mi.

2,076

3.6

$54,737

2.9

0.7

1.0

0.1

0.3

45169 / Sabina / OH / 31.4 mi.

1,945

3.7

$38,824

2.2

0.9

0.4

0.1

0.2

45505 / Springfield / OH / 22.3 mi.

9,266

0.7

$28,666

18.9

1.2

14.8

0.4

0.2

43331 / Orchard Island / OH / 49.5 mi.

2,378

2.8

$32,886

2.6

0.8

0.2

0.4

0.2

45330 / Gratis / OH / 18.2 mi.

121

54.5

$36,250

2.5

1.8

0.4

0.0

47374 / Whitewater / IN / 35.3 mi.

20,283

0.3

$32,793

11.6

1.7

7.1

0.2

0.7

45382 / West Manchester / OH / 23.4 mi.

468

13.7

$37,000

2.2

0.8

0.1

0.2

0.4

45326 / Fletcher / OH / 24.9 mi.

413

15.3

$49,688

2.0

0.3

0.4

0.0

43128 / Jeffersonville / OH / 30.9 mi.

939

6.2

$39,435

7.2

0.7

3.7

0.3

0.2

45306 / Botkins / OH / 45.5 mi.

826

7.0

$46,719

0.9

0.5

0.2

0.0

45348 / Rossburg / OH / 43.2 mi.

369

13.0

$42,009

1.6

0.7

0.2

0.0

0.1

45358 / Pitsburg / OH / 21 mi.

200.0

0.0

45334 / Jackson Center / OH / 44.7 mi.

793

5.9

$45,291

1.4

0.5

0.4

0.2

0.1

45333 / Houston / OH / 33.1 mi.

512

8.8

$46,395

0.9

0.1

0.3

0.0

45321 / Eldorado / OH / 25.7 mi.

374

11.8

$42,548

2.9

1.1

0.9

0.3

0.0

43324 / Huntsville / OH / 48.1 mi.

1,111

3.8

$47,629

2.1

0.6

0.3

0.1

0.2

45384 / Wilberforce / OH / 15.2 mi.

44.6

$85,153

90.7

1.2

83.3

0.5

0.4

45871 / New Knoxville / OH / 47.8 mi.

635

6.5

$43,516

3.4

1.4

0.9

0.2

45362 / Rossburg / OH / 40.5 mi.

434

9.2

$47,083

1.6

1.0

0.2

0.1

0.0

45388 / Yorkshire / OH / 39.4 mi.

311

11.6

$45,000

1.8

0.6

0.2

0.0

0.5

45378 / Verona / OH / 17.6 mi.

136

23.5

$41,944

1.1

0.0

45389 / Christiansburg / OH / 20.6 mi.

213

15.0

$32,500

1.3

0.2

0.4

0.2

0.4

45067 / Trenton / OH / 23 mi.

3,782

0.8

$51,644

2.4

0.9

0.4

0.2

0.3

45113 / Clarksville / OH / 25.4 mi.

987

2.9

$48,988

2.7

0.9

0.4

0.3

43215 / Columbus / OH / 60.1 mi.

5,799

0.5

$23,562

31.2

2.8

23.4

0.3

2.5

45317 / Lena / OH / 29.2 mi.

388

7.2

$41,156

1.1

0.1

0.4

0.3

0.2

45351 / Osgood / OH / 40.5 mi.

79.4

$33,750

0.0

43318 / De Graff / OH / 39.1 mi.

1,270

2.0

$47,331

1.7

0.6

0.5

0.2

0.1

45328 / Gettysburg / OH / 27.5 mi.

137

19.0

$36,364

4.9

0.0

1.0

0.5

1.2

45506 / Springfield / OH / 19.8 mi.

6,065

0.4

$31,737

45.5

1.0

41.2

0.3

0.2

45054 / Oregonia / OH / 21.4 mi.

629

4.0

$56,136

2.2

0.4

0.2

0.6

0.1

43213 / Whitehall / OH / 66.3 mi.

13,811

0.2

$35,269

32.7

3.3

24.1

0.3

2.6

45032 / Massie / OH / 18.7 mi.

102

23.5

$41,875

4.1

0.0

3.8

0.0

0.3

43343 / Quincy / OH / 37.4 mi.

575

3.8

$38,083

1.7

0.5

0.1

0.3

45310 / Burkettsville / OH / 44.4 mi.

44.7

$38,750

0.8

0.0

0.8

0.0

45301 / Alpha / OH / 8.8 mi.

32.7

$59,500

4.4

0.0

1.5

43357 / West Liberty / OH / 39.3 mi.

1,589

0.4

$47,995

1.9

0.3

0.4

0.2

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