The Lima 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

The Lima News

Lima, Ohio

Owner: Freedom Communications (Ca.)

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

3.3

2004

3.2

2003

3.2

2002

0.0

2001

0.0

2000

3.1

1999

6.3

1998

3.0

1997

3.1

1996

6.5

1995

3.0

1994

3.2

1993

10.3

1992

3.7

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1993

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Lima News

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

3.3

9.4

2004

3.2

9.4

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, Freedom Communications (Ca.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 59.

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

Peer group comparison

for The Lima News

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 35.

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 90 out of 140

newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 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 Herald & Review, Decatur, Illinois, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 11 percent non-white. Its index is 101.

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

approximately 34,148 ranks 299 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 Lima News

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.7

3,937

Black

6.0

13,618

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.4

994

Native-American

0.2

375

Other non-white

0.1

253

Multi-racial

0.9

2,135

Non-white

9.4

21,312

White

90.6

206,236

Total

227,548

Home county: Allen

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

1.4

1,545

Black

12.1

13,130

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.6

606

Native-American

0.2

206

Other non-white

0.2

207

Multi-racial

1.3

1,423

Non-white

15.8

17,117

White

84.2

91,356

Total

108,473

The home county of this newspaper is Allen.

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 Lima 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

45805 / Lima / OH / 5.3 mi.

5,079

9,516

53.4

$39,000

17.5

1.3

13.2

0.1

1.1

45801 / Lima / OH / 7.6 mi.

4,517

9,078

49.8

$31,762

21.6

2.0

16.9

0.3

0.5

45804 / Lima / OH / 8.6 mi.

3,320

7,038

47.2

$26,802

34.0

1.9

29.2

0.3

0.4

45807 / Lima / OH / 0 mi.

2,616

4,173

62.7

$48,444

4.1

1.2

1.6

0.1

0.4

45806 / Lima / OH / 9.8 mi.

2,396

4,165

57.5

$46,403

4.8

1.3

2.0

0.2

0.5

45895 / Wapakoneta / OH / 16.7 mi.

1,793

6,737

26.6

$44,187

1.9

0.7

0.2

0.1

0.3

45833 / Delphos / OH / 8.1 mi.

1,687

4,121

40.9

$39,451

1.6

0.7

0.2

0.1

45875 / Ottawa / OH / 16.1 mi.

1,474

3,931

37.5

$50,135

4.9

3.8

0.2

0.0

0.3

45830 / Columbus Grove / OH / 8.3 mi.

1,115

2,236

49.9

$46,057

2.6

2.0

0.0

0.2

0.1

45817 / Bluffton / OH / 16 mi.

888

2,206

40.3

$47,109

2.6

1.0

0.6

0.1

0.4

45887 / Spencerville / OH / 12 mi.

840

1,746

48.1

$41,052

2.3

0.5

0.4

0.2

0.1

45891 / Van Wert / OH / 22.9 mi.

812

6,310

12.9

$37,813

4.5

2.1

1.3

0.1

0.3

45885 / Saint Marys / OH / 19.6 mi.

764

5,019

15.2

$41,164

2.7

0.5

0.3

0.2

0.9

45822 / Celina / OH / 28.4 mi.

684

7,562

9.0

$40,147

3.2

1.6

0.1

0.2

0.5

45850 / Harrod / OH / 15.2 mi.

643

1,401

45.9

$45,170

2.4

0.7

0.1

0.3

0.2

45810 / Ada / OH / 19.2 mi.

632

2,701

23.4

$31,591

3.9

0.6

1.2

0.1

1.1

45844 / Fort Jennings / OH / 9.3 mi.

511

1,257

40.7

$51,275

1.3

0.5

0.3

0.1

0.3

45896 / Waynesfield / OH / 18.7 mi.

446

724

61.6

$42,024

2.0

0.6

0.1

0.4

0.0

45856 / Leipsic / OH / 23.3 mi.

383

1,901

20.1

$42,230

15.7

14.7

0.1

0.2

45853 / Kalida / OH / 12.6 mi.

374

366

102.2

$47,426

2.7

1.7

0.0

0.5

0.2

43326 / Kenton / OH / 31.5 mi.

326

5,515

5.9

$34,428

3.1

1.0

0.7

0.3

45877 / Pandora / OH / 16.1 mi.

320

781

41.0

$46,607

2.6

1.7

0.2

0.1

45874 / Ohio City / OH / 27.2 mi.

267

940

28.4

$39,122

1.8

0.8

0.4

0.0

0.1

43348 / Russells Point / OH / 27.9 mi.

227

1,075

21.1

$31,824

2.8

1.4

0.1

0.3

45831 / Continental / OH / 21.4 mi.

193

1,214

15.9

$39,848

2.7

1.9

0.3

0.1

45876 / Ottoville / OH / 12.1 mi.

187

178

105.1

$36,406

0.8

0.0

45812 / Alger / OH / 20.7 mi.

181

831

21.8

$32,113

1.4

0.5

0.1

0.2

0.1

45827 / Cloverdale / OH / 15 mi.

169

801

21.1

$43,458

1.0

0.6

0.0

0.2

0.0

45869 / New Bremen / OH / 26.6 mi.

151

1,616

9.3

$53,207

1.9

0.4

0.1

0.3

0.4

45871 / New Knoxville / OH / 21.3 mi.

130

635

20.5

$43,516

3.4

1.4

0.9

0.2

45828 / Coldwater / OH / 34.5 mi.

120

2,179

5.5

$45,140

1.7

1.0

0.1

0.2

0.1

45837 / Dupont / OH / 18.4 mi.

120

324.3

$28,750

6.9

5.9

0.0

1.0

0.0

45808 / Beaverdam / OH / 10.7 mi.

115

140

82.1

$39,063

0.8

0.3

0.0

45894 / Venedocia / OH / 15.3 mi.

113

259

43.6

$41,726

1.2

0.3

0.0

0.3

0.2

45820 / Cairo / OH / 5.1 mi.

109

155

70.3

$32,917

2.6

1.0

0.5

0.0

0.2

45334 / Jackson Center / OH / 25.1 mi.

107

793

13.5

$45,291

1.4

0.5

0.4

0.2

0.1

45863 / Middle Point / OH / 14.3 mi.

106

444

23.9

$37,760

2.8

1.8

0.0

0.1

45859 / Mc Guffey / OH / 21.9 mi.

172

55.2

$21,833

1.7

1.0

0.0

45868 / Mount Cory / OH / 20.4 mi.

242

38.8

$47,788

3.5

2.5

0.4

0.2

0.0

43331 / Lakeview / OH / 23.1 mi.

2,378

3.5

$32,886

2.6

0.8

0.2

0.4

0.2

45835 / Dola / OH / 25.5 mi.

188

43.6

$46,023

1.8

0.2

0.0

0.7

0.0

45862 / Mendon / OH / 19.9 mi.

606

13.0

$35,511

1.3

0.7

0.0

0.3

0.1

43340 / Mount Victory / OH / 40.9 mi.

541

13.7

$36,369

2.3

0.9

0.3

0.0

0.1

45882 / Rockford / OH / 27.4 mi.

1,103

6.3

$42,667

1.7

0.9

0.1

0.5

0.0

45306 / Botkins / OH / 23.6 mi.

826

7.7

$46,719

0.9

0.5

0.2

0.0

43310 / Belle Center / OH / 27.8 mi.

1,183

5.2

$46,774

1.5

0.4

0.3

0.0

0.2

45883 / Saint Henry / OH / 36.4 mi.

1,124

3.9

$51,507

1.2

1.0

0.1

0.0

45819 / Buckland / OH / 13.3 mi.

113

38.1

$31,406

1.4

0.0

0.4

0.0

45809 / Gomer / OH / 2.8 mi.

46.1

$54,583

4.8

2.4

1.9

0.0

45865 / Minster / OH / 30.3 mi.

1,724

2.0

$51,038

0.7

0.1

0.0

0.1

45888 / Uniopolis / OH / 14.8 mi.

49.3

$33,000

2.0

1.5

0.5

0.0

45860 / Maria Stein / OH / 33.5 mi.

683

4.4

$52,361

0.5

0.4

0.0

45302 / Anna / OH / 27.8 mi.

1,263

2.3

$57,609

1.9

0.5

0.2

0.1

0.7

45814 / Arlington / OH / 30 mi.

895

2.3

$45,662

1.2

0.4

0.1

0.2

0.0

45841 / Jenera / OH / 23.8 mi.

356

5.6

$42,107

1.9

0.6

0.5

0.0

0.2

43324 / Huntsville / OH / 32 mi.

1,111

1.5

$47,629

2.1

0.6

0.3

0.1

0.2

45881 / Rawson / OH / 23.1 mi.

466

3.6

$51,806

1.9

1.0

0.0

0.2

0.1

45861 / Melrose / OH / 23.6 mi.

14.1

$35,417

2.6

0.0

45849 / Grover Hill / OH / 23.7 mi.

467

1.9

$38,000

2.5

0.9

0.2

0.6

0.2

45832 / Convoy / OH / 31.3 mi.

1,079

0.7

$45,156

2.5

1.2

0.1

0.2

45836 / Dunkirk / OH / 28.1 mi.

591

1.4

$43,077

2.4

0.6

0.2

0.6

0.1

45840 / Findlay / OH / 31.5 mi.

20,580

0.0

$43,768

7.4

3.5

1.2

0.2

1.6

43311 / Bellefontaine / OH / 37.7 mi.

7,459

0.0

$40,233

7.3

0.9

3.7

0.1

0.8

45843 / Forest / OH / 34.7 mi.

1,424

0.1

$40,976

2.3

1.1

0.4

0.2

0.1

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