ASNE - Newspapers with highest percentages of minority newsroom staff, by circulation

Published Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Newspapers with highest percentages of minority newsroom staff, by circulation

Newspapers with circulation under 5,000
The Daily News, (Anadarko, Okla.); circ. 4,935; 80%
The Free Lance, (Hollister, Calif.); circ. 4,294; 42.9%
The Daily Dispatch, (Douglas, Ariz.); circ. 3,000; 40%
The Banner-News, (Magnolia, Ark.); circ. 3,794; 33.3%
The Pecos Enterprise, (Pecos, Texas); circ. 2,225; 33.3%
The Lyons Daily News, (Lyons, Kan.); circ. 2,440; 30.8%

Newspapers with circulation 5,000-20,000
Silver City (N.M.) Daily Press and Independent; circ. 7,486; 50%
Imperial Valley Press (El Centro, Calif.); circ. 14,861; 44.4%
Enterprise-Journal (McComb, Miss.); circ. 12,337; 44.4%
The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.); circ. 13,349; 41.7%
Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, Miss.); circ.12,346; 38.9%
The Pine Bluff Commercial (Pine Bluff, Ark.); circ.18,300; 35.3%
The Claremore Daily Progress, (Claremore, Okla.); circ.6,414; 33.3%
The Hobbs Daily News-Sun, (Hobbs, N.M.); circ.9,578; 33.3%
The Baxter Bulletin, (Mountain Home, Ark.); circ.11,136; 30.8%

Newspapers with circulation 20,000-50,000
Muskogee (Okla.) Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat; circ. 20,114; 61.1%
Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas); circ. 23,503; 55.6%
The Monitor (McAllen, Texas); circ. 37,279; 43.2%
The Jersey Journal (Jersey City, NJ); circ. 45,808; 37.2%
The Santa Fe (N.M.) New Mexican; circ.24,257; 33.9%

Newspapers with circulation 50,000+
El Paso (Texas) Times; circ. 75,181; 55.7%
The Honolulu Advertiser; circ, 101,948; 50.4%
The Miami Herald; circ. 307,519; 43.3%
San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News; circ.282,413; 30.7%
Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times; circ.64,780; 30.4%

Compiled by Dakarai I. Aarons. Source: ASNE 2001 Newsroom Employment Survey and the 2000 Editor and Publisher Yearbook