Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas
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	17.6
2004	20.0
2003	Did not report
2002	18.8
2001	11.1
2000	12.5
1999	16.7
1998	10.5
1997	17.4
1996	13.0
1995	19.0
1994	Did not report
1993	15.8
1992	18.2
1991	23.8
1990	16.0
The latest year at peak is	1991
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Port Arthur News
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	17.6	38.3	46
2004	20.0	38.3	52
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 Port Arthur News
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 46.				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 96 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 Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat, Oklahoma, with a 43.5 percent non-white staff in a community that is 36.9 percent non-white. Its index is 118.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 13,527 ranks 662 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 Port Arthur News
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	11.5	13,715
Black	21.9	26,107
Asian and Pacific Islander	3.7	4,439
Native-American	0.3	360
Other non-white	0.0	53
Multi-racial	0.9	1,038
Non-white	38.3	45,712
White	61.7	73,660
Total		119,372
	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
Port Arthur 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
77642 / Port Arthur / TX / 20.5 mi.	4,585	13,688	33.5	$29,146	65.1	23.6	31.7	0.3	8.4
77640 / Port Arthur / TX / 0 mi.	3,098	7,829	39.6	$22,233	76.3	6.7	67.1	0.3	1.5
77619 / Groves / TX / 20.9 mi.	2,511	6,514	38.5	$41,429	14.9	8.0	3.8	0.2	2.1
77627 / Nederland / TX / 18.6 mi.	2,253	8,537	26.4	$45,609	9.5	5.9	0.8	0.3	1.7
77651 / Port Neches / TX / 21.2 mi.	1,543	5,280	29.2	$47,523	8.8	5.1	0.9	0.4	1.5
77611 / Bridge City / TX / 26 mi.	445	3,623	12.3	$42,606	6.3	3.7	0.2	0.6	1.2
77630 / Orange / TX / 33.4 mi.	202	11,019	1.8	$31,954	29.0	4.1	22.1	0.4	1.3
77705 / Beaumont / TX / 14.2 mi.	125	10,372	1.2	$27,921	67.1	12.4	52.0	0.3	1.4
77655 / Sabine Pass / TX / 17.4 mi.	93	247	37.7	$39,167	9.1	3.3	3.8	0.2	0.8
77701 / Beaumont / TX / 22.4 mi.	75	5,771	1.3	$21,976	86.4	18.4	64.4	0.1	2.7
77706 / Beaumont / TX / 23.7 mi.	20	11,856	0.2	$49,642	21.2	5.0	10.6	0.3	4.0
77665 / Winnie / TX / 8.3 mi.	5	2,408	0.2	$35,395	21.3	9.7	10.1	0.3	0.3
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