News Journal, Mansfield... 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

News Journal, Mansfield

Mansfield, Ohio

Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)

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

13.3

2004

18.8

2003

11.4

2002

8.6

2001

5.4

2000

5.4

1999

2.6

1998

Did not report

1997

Did not report

1996

Did not report

1995

Did not report

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

6.3

1991

Did not report

1990

0.0

The latest year at peak is

2004

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for News Journal, Mansfield

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

13.3

8.6

155

2004

18.8

8.6

219

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, Gannett Co. (Va.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.

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

Peer group comparison

for News Journal, Mansfield

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 155.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 8 out of 140

newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.

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

approximately 31,345 ranks 326 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 News Journal, Mansfield

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.2

2,836

Black

5.6

12,758

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

1,103

Native-American

0.2

394

Other non-white

0.1

245

Multi-racial

1.0

2,221

Non-white

8.6

19,557

White

91.4

208,570

Total

228,127

Home county: Richland

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.9

1,200

Black

9.4

12,082

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

684

Native-American

0.2

247

Other non-white

0.1

171

Multi-racial

1.2

1,558

Non-white

12.4

15,942

White

87.6

112,910

Total

128,852

The home county of this newspaper is Richland.

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

News Journal, Mansfield

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

44903 / Mansfield / OH / 1.1 mi.

5,276

10,197

51.7

$38,456

24.9

1.0

21.6

0.2

0.3

44906 / Mansfield / OH / 3.7 mi.

4,170

7,514

55.5

$35,009

9.7

1.2

5.7

0.2

1.2

44907 / Mansfield / OH / 2.6 mi.

3,325

6,945

47.9

$34,504

9.3

1.1

6.2

0.2

0.6

44904 / Mansfield / OH / 8.7 mi.

2,752

5,300

51.9

$48,831

4.4

0.7

2.0

0.1

0.9

44905 / Mansfield / OH / 2.2 mi.

2,628

5,205

50.5

$35,352

6.3

0.8

3.4

0.2

0.5

44875 / Shelby / OH / 11.1 mi.

2,248

5,788

38.8

$39,479

3.0

1.0

0.8

0.2

0.3

44902 / Mansfield / OH / 0 mi.

2,220

2,629

84.4

$22,522

43.5

1.4

37.4

0.4

0.3

44833 / Galion / OH / 15.4 mi.

1,658

7,477

22.2

$35,398

2.2

0.8

0.2

0.3

44805 / Ashland / OH / 12.5 mi.

1,465

12,323

11.9

$37,850

3.4

0.8

0.9

0.1

0.8

44813 / Bellville / OH / 11.4 mi.

1,144

2,755

41.5

$40,398

1.6

0.5

0.2

0.1

0.4

44827 / Crestline / OH / 13.5 mi.

1,010

2,890

34.9

$37,339

3.5

0.6

1.5

0.2

0.3

44890 / Willard / OH / 24.2 mi.

652

4,431

14.7

$36,745

10.4

8.2

0.9

0.2

0.3

43338 / Mount Gilead / OH / 19.1 mi.

568

3,519

16.1

$39,273

2.2

0.7

0.5

0.2

0.3

44820 / Bucyrus / OH / 24.4 mi.

470

7,826

6.0

$36,282

2.7

0.8

0.7

0.2

0.4

44843 / Lucas / OH / 7.5 mi.

410

879

46.6

$53,688

2.1

0.5

0.7

0.1

0.2

44842 / Loudonville / OH / 16.8 mi.

407

2,250

18.1

$37,233

2.6

0.7

1.2

0.1

0.2

44865 / Plymouth / OH / 18.1 mi.

360

1,289

27.9

$39,821

3.4

2.3

0.1

0.0

44822 / Butler / OH / 15.6 mi.

349

1,018

34.3

$42,778

1.0

0.2

0.1

0.0

44864 / Perrysville / OH / 12.4 mi.

313

1,155

27.1

$40,250

1.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

44878 / Shiloh / OH / 12.7 mi.

291

1,013

28.7

$40,577

2.1

0.6

0.7

0.3

0.1

43019 / Fredericktown / OH / 19 mi.

268

3,155

8.5

$43,432

1.9

0.5

0.2

0.1

44837 / Greenwich / OH / 18.5 mi.

175

1,541

11.4

$35,222

1.6

0.5

0.0

0.1

43315 / Cardington / OH / 27.1 mi.

160

2,325

6.9

$40,397

2.1

0.5

0.2

0.5

0.2

44854 / New Washington / OH / 21.9 mi.

144

716

20.1

$43,603

0.7

0.2

0.0

0.2

43050 / Mount Vernon / OH / 27.1 mi.

104

10,645

1.0

$35,104

3.4

0.8

0.9

0.3

0.5

44887 / Tiro / OH / 17.9 mi.

101

410

24.6

$41,316

1.6

0.9

0.0

0.3

44840 / Jeromesville / OH / 17.4 mi.

1,032

5.1

$42,744

1.8

0.5

0.3

0.2

0.6

44851 / New London / OH / 24 mi.

1,934

2.3

$38,719

3.6

0.8

1.4

0.1

0.3

44850 / New Haven / OH / 20.8 mi.

90.9

$28,750

2.4

0.8

0.0

43320 / Edison / OH / 23.5 mi.

552

5.6

$41,324

1.8

0.6

0.3

0.1

44856 / North Robinson / OH / 18.2 mi.

43.3

$32,500

1.3

0.0

0.7

43317 / Chesterville / OH / 21.7 mi.

96.0

$40,417

5.8

1.9

0.0

1.0

0.0

44874 / Savannah / OH / 15.9 mi.

27.5

$32,857

1.4

0.0

0.5

0.0

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