Beaumont Enterprise... 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

Beaumont Enterprise

Beaumont, Texas

Owner: Hearst Newspapers (N.Y.)

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

24.0

2004

22.2

2003

19.6

2002

24.4

2001

19.1

2000

20.0

1999

22.0

1998

11.6

1997

11.1

1996

11.8

1995

Did not report

1994

10.2

1993

9.8

1992

12.7

1991

14.5

1990

17.4

The latest year at peak is

2002

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

Newsroom Diversity Index

for Beaumont Enterprise

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

24.0

33.5

2004

22.2

33.3

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, Hearst Newspapers (N.Y.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 45.

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

Peer group comparison

for Beaumont Enterprise

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 72.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 50, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 26 out of 90

newspapers reporting in the category of 50,001 to 100,000 daily sales.

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

approximately 51,296 ranks 197 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 Beaumont Enterprise

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

7.2

34,709

Black

23.1

110,970

Asian and Pacific Islander

1.7

8,330

Native-American

0.3

1,527

Other non-white

0.1

262

Multi-racial

0.9

4,210

Non-white

33.3

160,008

White

66.7

319,921

Total

479,929

Home county: Jefferson

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

10.5

26,536

Black

33.5

84,482

Asian and Pacific Islander

2.9

7,304

Native-American

0.3

654

Other non-white

0.1

185

Multi-racial

0.9

2,286

Non-white

48.2

121,447

White

51.8

130,604

Total

252,051

The home county of this newspaper is Jefferson.

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

Beaumont Enterprise

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

77706 / Beaumont / TX / 3.9 mi.

5,655

11,856

47.7

$49,642

21.2

5.0

10.6

0.3

4.0

77705 / Fannett / TX / 2 mi.

4,476

10,372

43.2

$27,921

67.1

12.4

52.0

0.3

1.4

77627 / Nederland / TX / 8.7 mi.

2,734

8,537

32.0

$45,609

9.5

5.9

0.8

0.3

1.7

77701 / Beaumont / TX / 0.2 mi.

2,644

5,771

45.8

$21,976

86.4

18.4

64.4

0.1

2.7

77707 / Beaumont / TX / 4 mi.

2,586

6,285

41.1

$47,321

35.3

7.2

23.9

0.2

3.0

77630 / West Orange / TX / 18.5 mi.

2,477

11,019

22.5

$31,954

29.0

4.1

22.1

0.4

1.3

77662 / Vidor / TX / 7 mi.

2,453

9,907

24.8

$33,742

5.0

3.3

0.0

0.4

0.3

77657 / Lumberton / TX / 12.5 mi.

2,293

5,475

41.9

$41,202

4.3

3.0

0.0

0.3

0.2

77656 / Silsbee / TX / 16.5 mi.

1,948

6,353

30.7

$35,156

17.8

2.4

14.3

0.3

77642 / Port Arthur / TX / 13.7 mi.

1,874

13,688

13.7

$29,146

65.1

23.6

31.7

0.3

8.4

77703 / Beaumont / TX / 2.7 mi.

1,871

5,898

31.7

$22,139

82.6

6.1

74.8

0.2

0.8

77651 / Port Neches / TX / 9.9 mi.

1,686

5,280

31.9

$47,523

8.8

5.1

0.9

0.4

1.5

77708 / Beaumont / TX / 5.9 mi.

1,610

4,179

38.5

$34,198

57.4

4.8

49.9

0.2

1.4

77632 / Orange / TX / 18.6 mi.

1,606

7,974

20.1

$48,520

8.3

3.1

3.4

0.5

75951 / Sam Rayburn / TX / 55.2 mi.

1,247

6,453

19.3

$30,208

37.1

5.9

29.5

0.3

0.5

77611 / Bridge City / TX / 15 mi.

1,060

3,623

29.3

$42,606

6.3

3.7

0.2

0.6

1.2

77625 / Kountze / TX / 18.5 mi.

1,047

2,826

37.0

$33,737

13.0

2.0

9.7

0.3

77619 / Steeltown / TX / 13.4 mi.

1,010

6,514

15.5

$41,429

14.9

8.0

3.8

0.2

2.1

77640 / West Port Arthur / TX / 14 mi.

1,007

7,829

12.9

$22,233

76.3

6.7

67.1

0.3

1.5

77665 / Winnie / TX / 22.6 mi.

825

2,408

34.3

$35,395

21.3

9.7

10.1

0.3

77612 / Buna / TX / 14.1 mi.

724

2,909

24.9

$33,185

7.4

1.8

3.8

0.8

0.2

77659 / Sour Lake / TX / 15.5 mi.

707

1,664

42.5

$40,323

7.4

3.1

2.8

0.3

0.4

75979 / Woodville / TX / 46.9 mi.

688

3,761

18.3

$28,697

25.0

5.4

17.8

0.3

75956 / Roganville / TX / 39.3 mi.

631

2,775

22.7

$28,513

15.7

2.5

11.4

0.4

0.2

77702 / Beaumont / TX / 1.9 mi.

493

1,293

38.1

$31,125

48.1

17.6

27.0

0.6

1.8

75948 / Hemphill / TX / 86 mi.

488

2,486

19.6

$28,299

11.9

2.0

8.5

0.4

0.1

75966 / Newton / TX / 53 mi.

362

2,055

17.6

$28,029

34.4

6.8

25.8

0.3

0.5

75972 / White Rock / TX / 93.9 mi.

321

2,594

12.4

$26,588

41.6

4.2

36.4

0.1

0.3

77663 / Wildwood / TX / 35.3 mi.

288

529

54.4

$49,954

2.9

1.7

0.4

0.2

77575 / Moss Hill / TX / 36 mi.

275

5,122

5.4

$35,479

31.0

10.6

18.3

0.4

77613 / China / TX / 11.5 mi.

252

386

65.3

$33,750

34.1

4.1

27.3

0.3

0.5

77622 / Hamshire / TX / 17.2 mi.

229

513

44.6

$51,300

6.5

3.0

2.7

0.4

0.2

77664 / Warren / TX / 39.4 mi.

217

1,026

21.2

$32,887

6.8

1.5

3.9

0.5

0.1

77713 / Beaumont / TX / 8.2 mi.

187

3,595

5.2

$44,703

25.0

5.2

17.7

0.3

0.9

75931 / Browndell / TX / 66.7 mi.

182

739

24.6

$33,257

12.3

1.6

9.2

0.5

0.0

75968 / Pineland / TX / 76 mi.

173

784

22.1

$26,080

16.5

2.1

12.8

0.3

0.1

77614 / Deweyville / TX / 33.5 mi.

163

495

32.9

$30,982

2.2

0.9

0.0

0.4

0.2

75938 / Rockland / TX / 55.1 mi.

155

1,067

14.5

$26,650

6.2

2.1

3.3

0.2

0.1

77615 / Evadale / TX / 18.1 mi.

150

684

21.9

$33,362

2.1

1.6

0.0

0.2

0.0

75932 / Toledo / TX / 65 mi.

148

697

21.2

$29,866

11.9

1.1

8.7

1.0

0.3

77660 / Spurger / TX / 42.1 mi.

130

486

26.7

$29,750

3.4

0.9

0.0

1.3

0.0

75933 / Trout Creek / TX / 32.9 mi.

128

605

21.2

$28,281

18.5

1.7

16.1

0.1

77514 / Monroe City / TX / 33.3 mi.

118

1,946

6.1

$38,594

38.5

19.1

15.9

0.3

2.2

77629 / Nome / TX / 15.4 mi.

112

278

40.3

$33,333

29.3

3.8

23.9

0.3

0.5

75930 / Rosevine / TX / 80.5 mi.

107

896

11.9

$28,898

6.6

0.8

5.3

0.1

0.0

70668 / Vinton / LA / 29.8 mi.

2,365

4.1

$31,291

15.9

0.9

13.5

0.5

0.2

77655 / Sabine Pass / TX / 25.3 mi.

247

38.1

$39,167

9.1

3.3

3.8

0.2

0.8

77585 / Saratoga / TX / 31.4 mi.

353

24.9

$31,856

3.5

2.1

0.0

0.1

0.0

77535 / Winfree / TX / 43.8 mi.

8,246

1.0

$45,908

24.3

10.1

12.5

0.5

0.3

75928 / Bon Wier / TX / 43.6 mi.

539

15.0

$23,293

49.6

1.7

46.3

0.5

0.1

77616 / Fred / TX / 34.7 mi.

518

12.4

$28,963

3.1

1.6

0.1

0.5

0.0

75980 / Zavalla / TX / 73.6 mi.

1,067

5.8

$26,303

4.0

2.2

0.7

0.4

0.0

77533 / Daisetta / TX / 30.2 mi.

381

14.7

$29,038

5.0

2.1

2.2

0.0

75959 / Mildland / TX / 92.3 mi.

500

10.4

$24,250

16.9

1.3

15.0

0.2

0.3

77564 / Hull / TX / 31 mi.

837

6.1

$36,689

4.6

2.3

1.5

0.4

0.0

77650 / Port Bolivar / TX / 50.1 mi.

1,355

3.2

$36,080

11.3

8.2

0.5

0.7

0.6

70601 / Lake Charles / LA / 51.4 mi.

14,257

0.3

$24,353

64.3

1.2

60.8

0.2

0.7

77538 / Devers / TX / 24.5 mi.

300

14.0

$40,500

28.5

17.7

9.9

0.0

0.1

77624 / Hillister / TX / 42.9 mi.

311

12.9

$23,350

37.8

2.2

32.7

0.8

0.1

77519 / Batson / TX / 29.9 mi.

489

7.8

$31,538

2.9

2.4

0.1

0.0

75977 / Wiergate / TX / 66.6 mi.

294

12.6

$21,207

59.5

3.5

55.1

0.5

0.1

77623 / High Island / TX / 36.5 mi.

195

17.9

$29,444

6.1

3.8

0.2

1.3

0.4

77374 / Thicket / TX / 36 mi.

153

22.2

$26,964

2.8

2.3

0.3

0.0

77561 / Hardin / TX / 35.7 mi.

201

13.4

$41,458

7.8

7.3

0.4

0.0

70661 / Starks / LA / 30.9 mi.

998

2.6

$30,441

4.4

0.4

3.0

0.5

0.0

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