Journalists of Color as a Percentage of Staff by Newspaper Size

Breakdown of newsroom workforce diversity by circulation size, illustrating where journalists of color were most and least represented.

Answers: How did the percentage of journalists of color vary between large and small newspapers?

	1980	1983	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
>500,000	7.2	9.4	17.1	17.3	17.2	17.3	17	17.3	18.4	18.4	18.5	18.6	18.7	18.4	19.2	19.3	19.7	19.9	19.9	19.5	19.3	19.3	19.4	22.1
250,001-500,000	6.4	7.8	15.4	15.7	15.7	16.2	16.8	17.8	18.3	18.3	18.8	19.5	20.6	20.7	21.7	20.9	20.5	21.1	21	20.2	19.7	19.7	21.5	19.6
100,001-250,000	6.3	6	11.8	12.3	13.1	13.1	13.2	13.6	13.6	14	14.5	15	15.3	15.8	16.4	17	17.4	17.1	17.4	16.3	15.8	15.4	16.1	18.5
50,001-100,000	5.6	6.3	10	10.9	10.6	11.3	11	10.8	10.2	10.2	10.5	10.7	11.2	12.3	12.5	12	12.2	13.3	12.7	12.9	10.9	11.6	13.1	9.3
25,001-50,000	4.2	3.4	6.9	7.1	7.2	7.1	7.6	7.6	8.1	7.4	7.9	8.5	8.7	9.6	9	8.7	9.1	8.7	7.8	10.1	7.8	8.5	8.1	6.5
10,001-25,000	3.1	4.4	6.1	5.8	6.1	7	6.9	6.5	6.9	6	7.1	7.4	7.3	8	8.4	7.8	7.3	6.4	6.8	6.4	7.8	7.9	8.0	6.5
5,001-10,000	2.4	3.7	5	5.3	6.3	5.1	5.9	5.6	5.6	4.4	4.8	5.5	5.4	6.1	5.5	5.2	5	5.6	5.7	6.3	6	6.2	7.5	6.9
<=5,000	2.8	3.8	5.4	5	5.5	4.6	6.6	5.7	6	6.4	4.8	5.7	6.1	7.1	6.2	5.6	6.1	5.7	5.1	5.8	6	5.8	8.2	5.9
Regional Hubs	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	17.0	16.7
*Note: Regional hubs were not dely 2014