The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville... 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 Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville

Clarksville, Tennessee

Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)

From a report for the Knight Foundation

by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005

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Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

2005

15.0

2004

17.9

2003

13.8

2002

14.3

2001

14.3

2000

8.7

1999

21.1

1998

17.4

1997

14.3

1996

9.1

1995

18.2

1994

12.5

1993

8.3

1992

9.5

1991

Did not report

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

1999

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

15.0

25.2

2004

17.9

27.4

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, 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 The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 59.

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 68 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 Greeley Tribune, Colorado, with a 26.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 30 percent non-white. Its index is 88.

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

approximately 21,154 ranks 461 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 Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

5.3

9,351

Black

17.3

30,454

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.9

3,268

Native-American

0.5

857

Other non-white

0.2

427

Multi-racial

2.2

3,874

Non-white

27.4

48,231

White

72.7

128,112

Total

176,343

Home county: Montgomery

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

5.2

6,960

Black

18.9

25,496

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.0

2,683

Native-American

0.5

624

Other non-white

0.3

342

Multi-racial

2.3

3,148

Non-white

29.1

39,253

White

70.9

95,515

Total

134,768

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

The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville

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

37043 / Hilldale / TN / 4.3 mi.

6,966

12,242

56.9

$45,194

14.4

2.3

8.8

0.3

1.6

37042 / Sango / TN / 3.2 mi.

5,876

18,796

31.3

$37,724

40.7

8.1

25.2

0.6

3.1

37040 / Clarksville / TN / 0 mi.

5,360

11,888

45.1

$32,082

31.0

3.2

24.2

0.5

0.9

37058 / Fort Donelson National Milit / TN / 25.4 mi.

528

2,690

19.6

$31,735

6.0

0.9

1.7

0.6

2.1

37052 / Cunningham / TN / 10.2 mi.

432

939

46.0

$37,978

5.7

1.4

2.3

0.4

0.3

37191 / Woodlawn / TN / 10 mi.

426

1,428

29.8

$46,330

11.2

2.8

4.5

0.8

1.1

37061 / Erin / TN / 25.8 mi.

324

1,871

17.3

$28,945

7.4

0.8

5.1

0.1

0.2

37010 / Adams / TN / 13.3 mi.

272

1,095

24.8

$51,196

8.8

2.2

5.3

0.1

0.6

37051 / Cumberland Furnace / TN / 15.4 mi.

255

1,143

22.3

$38,581

3.7

0.9

1.2

0.4

0.2

42223 / Fort Campbell / KY / 10 mi.

228

3,868

5.9

$29,545

42.7

12.6

23.3

0.9

2.6

37079 / Indian Mound / TN / 12.5 mi.

221

948

23.3

$36,302

4.6

1.1

1.0

0.5

42262 / Oak Grove / KY / 10.7 mi.

193

2,795

6.9

$31,725

39.4

9.0

23.3

1.0

2.0

37142 / Palmyra / TN / 11.4 mi.

191

547

34.9

$41,283

3.6

0.6

1.8

0.2

37178 / Tennessee Ridge / TN / 25.7 mi.

190

753

25.2

$32,679

1.8

0.7

0.3

0.0

0.2

37050 / Cumberland City / TN / 15.1 mi.

153

694

22.0

$37,361

6.7

0.8

3.5

0.4

42234 / Tiny Town / KY / 13.7 mi.

116

968

12.0

$31,307

23.9

2.3

20.0

0.2

0.3

37171 / Southside / TN / 11.2 mi.

114

361

31.6

$35,868

8.2

1.6

5.7

0.3

0.1

37023 / Big Rock / TN / 18.7 mi.

615

13.2

$33,684

4.3

1.7

0.1

0.8

0.2

42286 / Trenton / KY / 13.5 mi.

471

13.0

$33,542

7.7

0.8

5.5

0.3

37015 / Ashland City / TN / 21.4 mi.

6,000

0.6

$41,209

4.6

1.5

1.7

0.5

0.3

37035 / Chapmansboro / TN / 15.1 mi.

1,031

2.2

$45,095

4.1

1.1

1.7

0.1

0.2

37146 / Pleasant View / TN / 18.7 mi.

1,470

1.0

$54,023

2.8

0.9

0.3

0.2

37181 / Vanleer / TN / 20.6 mi.

598

1.3

$34,545

4.3

0.6

0.3

37028 / Bumpus Mills / TN / 26.2 mi.

203

2.0

$35,078

5.6

1.0

1.6

1.0

37175 / Stewart / TN / 31.3 mi.

452

0.9

$23,813

9.5

4.2

0.6

0.8

2.2

37032 / Cedar Hill / TN / 17 mi.

1,160

0.3

$43,636

6.9

1.7

3.8

0.3

0.4

37172 / Springfield / TN / 24.8 mi.

9,304

0.0

$40,651

21.8

4.5

15.9

0.2

0.4

42220 / Elkton / KY / 23.9 mi.

2,383

0.0

$28,445

8.1

1.7

5.6

0.1

0.2

42240 / Hopkinsville / KY / 22.8 mi.

15,904

0.0

$32,343

29.8

1.6

26.2

0.2

0.7

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