Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
The Martinsville Bulletin
Martinsville, Virginia
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	6.7
2004	6.7
2003	7.1
2002	6.3
2001	5.9
2000	5.9
1999	11.8
1998	0.0
1997	5.9
1996	0.0
1995	0.0
1994	0.0
1993	0.0
1992	0.0
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 Martinsville Bulletin
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	6.7	27.2	25
2004	6.7	27.2	25
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.)
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for The Martinsville Bulletin
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 25.				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 142 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 17,269 ranks 546 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 Martinsville Bulletin
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	2.9	2,637
Black	23.0	21,068
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.4	332
Native-American	0.2	134
Other non-white	0.1	81
Multi-racial	0.7	629
Non-white	27.2	24,881
White	72.8	66,573
Total		91,454
	Home county:  Henry
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	3.5	2,002
Black	22.6	13,080
Asian and Pacific Islander	0.4	226
Native-American	0.1	83
Other non-white	0.1	47
Multi-racial	0.7	405
Non-white	27.4	15,843
White	72.7	42,087
Total		57,930
The home county of this newspaper is Henry.
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 Martinsville Bulletin
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
24112 / Martinsville / VA / 0 mi.	7,535	14,406	52.3	$30,434	41.6	2.3	37.8	0.1	0.5
24055 / Bassett / VA / 8.2 mi.	2,719	5,871	46.3	$29,559	18.1	5.7	11.4	0.2	0.1
24148 / Ridgeway / VA / 9.9 mi.	1,830	3,525	51.9	$35,496	18.5	1.0	16.2	0.1	0.5
24078 / Collinsville / VA / 2.9 mi.	1,602	3,391	47.2	$30,885	16.9	3.9	11.3	0.1	0.7
24171 / Stuart / VA / 20.9 mi.	959	3,835	25.0	$30,281	10.0	2.0	7.0	0.3	0.2
24054 / Axton / VA / 8 mi.	871	2,512	34.7	$36,164	38.0	5.0	31.8	0.3	0.2
24089 / Fieldale / VA / 6.4 mi.	710	1,105	64.3	$25,917	27.1	1.5	24.8	0.1	0.0
24165 / Spencer / VA / 14.5 mi.	422	714	59.1	$36,738	23.7	0.6	22.6	0.1	0.0
24133 / Patrick Springs / VA / 15.9 mi.	281	1,048	26.8	$31,944	7.8	0.9	5.9	0.2	0.2
24102 / Henry / VA / 11.3 mi.	128	729	17.6	$31,653	5.8	1.1	3.4	0.0	0.4
27288 / Eden / NC / 15.3 mi.	106	10,254	1.0	$30,094	23.1	2.2	19.7	0.2	0.3
24168 / Stanleytown / VA / 4.4 mi.	77	163	47.2	$31,111	6.8	3.2	2.1	0.0	1.6
24185 / Woolwine / VA / 23.9 mi.	65	460	14.1	$25,194	5.4	0.6	3.2	0.0	0.1
24151 / Rocky Mount / VA / 16.6 mi.	59	7,146	0.8	$31,761	20.2	1.6	17.0	0.2	0.6
24069 / Cascade / VA / 14.4 mi.	39	822	4.7	$31,220	41.8	1.0	40.2	0.1	0.2
24082 / Critz / VA / 16.4 mi.	38	142	26.8	$41,071	15.4	0.0	14.9	0.0	0.0
24088 / Ferrum / VA / 17.2 mi.	37	1,514	2.4	$35,497	9.0	1.4	6.6	0.2	0.2
24530 / Callands / VA / 12.9 mi.	31	413	7.5	$31,165	27.1	1.0	25.5	0.1	0.0
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