Enid News & Eagle... 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

Enid News & Eagle

Enid, Oklahoma

Owner: Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.)

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

0.0

2004

0.0

2003

Did not report

2002

0.0

2001

4.2

2000

4.2

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

4.8

1996

10.5

1995

5.3

1994

11.1

1993

5.0

1992

0.0

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1994

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Enid News & Eagle

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

0.0

11.6

2004

0.0

11.7

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, Community Newspaper Holdings (Ala.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 41.

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

Peer group comparison

for Enid News & Eagle

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 33, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 159 out of 259

newspapers reporting in the 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 18,611 ranks 511 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 Enid News & Eagle

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.1

3,775

Black

2.6

2,399

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.9

845

Native-American

2.2

2,018

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

2.0

1,842

Non-white

11.7

10,938

White

88.3

82,208

Total

93,146

Home county: Garfield

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

4.1

2,387

Black

3.2

1,860

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.3

765

Native-American

2.0

1,180

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

2.3

1,301

Non-white

13.1

7,546

White

87.0

50,267

Total

57,813

The home county of this newspaper is Garfield.

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

Enid News & Eagle

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

73703 / Enid / OK / 2.2 mi.

7,239

10,859

66.7

$39,146

10.5

2.4

1.6

1.8

73701 / Enid / OK / 0.5 mi.

4,575

9,284

49.3

$26,624

18.2

6.9

5.0

2.5

1.1

73737 / Orienta / OK / 32.1 mi.

514

1,453

35.4

$30,513

3.8

1.5

0.1

1.1

0.1

73773 / Waukomis / OK / 7.5 mi.

463

672

68.9

$33,958

7.3

1.4

0.6

2.6

0.3

73717 / Capron / OK / 48.5 mi.

435

2,736

15.9

$30,063

8.2

1.9

2.7

1.6

0.7

73742 / Hennessey / OK / 18.7 mi.

393

1,315

29.9

$31,424

18.5

13.4

1.2

0.2

73802 / Woodward / OK / 78.4 mi.

296

1741.2

$49,375

5.0

0.0

5.0

0.0

73738 / Garber / OK / 15.4 mi.

282

498

56.6

$28,125

5.0

0.4

0.2

2.5

0.1

73754 / Lahoma / OK / 11.3 mi.

280

436

64.2

$36,528

6.0

2.1

0.5

1.5

0.8

73759 / Medford / OK / 27.3 mi.

261

705

37.0

$28,370

5.0

1.9

0.2

2.3

0.1

73728 / Cherokee / OK / 33.8 mi.

257

866

29.7

$30,287

5.6

3.4

0.1

1.2

0.0

73763 / O'Keene / OK / 29.7 mi.

250

651

38.4

$31,337

4.7

3.1

0.4

0.5

0.1

73766 / Pond Creek / OK / 17.9 mi.

244

444

55.0

$31,544

6.7

1.1

0.0

3.0

0.2

73768 / Ringwood / OK / 19.1 mi.

217

497

43.7

$30,625

16.5

14.3

0.2

0.7

0.2

73735 / Drummond / OK / 10.4 mi.

181

267

67.8

$38,333

8.7

3.3

1.2

3.2

0.1

73730 / Covington / OK / 18.5 mi.

165

308

53.6

$31,316

6.4

1.0

0.0

3.4

0.1

73860 / Waynoka / OK / 53.6 mi.

144

624

23.1

$23,707

9.0

4.3

1.7

1.3

0.1

73749 / Jet / OK / 23.8 mi.

139

234

59.4

$26,667

5.6

1.3

0.0

1.5

0.2

73741 / Helena / OK / 22.9 mi.

135

271

49.8

$34,028

28.6

5.0

14.6

5.5

0.2

73750 / Kingfisher / OK / 35.4 mi.

135

2,490

5.4

$37,746

14.2

5.3

1.6

4.5

0.3

73726 / Carmen / OK / 32.5 mi.

125

239

52.3

$28,182

6.3

2.2

0.5

1.7

0.7

73724 / Canton / OK / 43.2 mi.

122

481

25.4

$26,974

17.1

3.8

0.0

10.7

0.0

73772 / Watonga / OK / 44.6 mi.

112

1,785

6.3

$27,702

37.4

9.9

11.9

8.3

2.6

73718 / Ames / OK / 19.2 mi.

111

207

53.6

$30,568

4.4

3.0

0.6

0.4

0.0

73771 / Wakita / OK / 31.4 mi.

104

259

40.2

$28,077

4.0

0.6

0.2

1.9

0.0

73729 / Cleo Springs / OK / 29.4 mi.

101

238

42.4

$31,172

3.7

1.0

0.9

1.0

0.0

73761 / Nash / OK / 19.6 mi.

178

52.8

$28,500

3.9

0.2

0.0

2.5

0.5

73852 / Mooreland / OK / 69 mi.

764

12.2

$32,454

5.6

2.7

0.1

1.8

0.1

73753 / Kremlin / OK / 8.7 mi.

173

52.6

$36,250

3.0

0.2

0.9

0.2

73739 / Goltry / OK / 17.3 mi.

174

50.0

$31,250

5.3

0.0

0.3

2.8

0.0

74643 / Lamont / OK / 25.1 mi.

257

33.1

$24,485

7.1

2.9

0.0

2.4

0.0

73077 / Perry / OK / 31.2 mi.

2,990

2.8

$34,334

9.6

1.4

2.3

3.1

0.4

73663 / Seiling / OK / 57.1 mi.

539

14.5

$25,662

16.1

2.8

0.2

11.3

0.1

73056 / Marshall / OK / 22.9 mi.

181

40.3

$28,077

7.3

2.3

1.6

2.5

0.0

74640 / Hunter / OK / 18 mi.

156

44.2

$26,842

3.9

2.1

0.0

1.6

0.0

73722 / Byron / OK / 44.4 mi.

197

30.5

$34,750

3.3

1.0

0.2

1.2

0.4

73736 / Fairmont / OK / 9.1 mi.

164

34.8

$37,500

5.3

2.8

1.3

1.0

0.0

73716 / Aline / OK / 30.7 mi.

243

21.8

$31,667

3.5

0.6

0.0

0.9

0.0

74630 / Billings / OK / 23.8 mi.

250

19.2

$36,118

10.8

2.5

0.3

4.6

0.0

73720 / Bison / OK / 13.2 mi.

120

37.5

$37,188

6.3

2.2

0.0

0.7

73747 / Isabella / OK / 26.3 mi.

162

18.5

$29,083

7.0

5.8

0.0

73838 / Chester / OK / 51.9 mi.

200

15.0

$31,397

3.3

0.8

0.0

0.6

0.2

73760 / Meno / OK / 15.7 mi.

166

16.9

$35,469

6.2

4.3

0.0

0.5

0.0

73727 / Carrier / OK / 11.1 mi.

32.1

$37,750

7.0

3.7

0.9

0.5

0.9

73733 / Douglas / OK / 14.3 mi.

32.9

$33,750

2.2

1.7

0.0

0.6

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