Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Lexington Herald-Leader
Lexington, Kentucky
Owner: Knight Ridder (Calif.)
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	10.4
2004	11.1
2003	12.4
2002	11.8
2001	9.8
2000	11.5
1999	8.6
1998	16.1
1997	10.9
1996	12.6
1995	11.4
1994	10.8
1993	8.3
1992	8.2
1991	8.6
1990	Did not report
The latest year at peak is	1998
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Lexington Herald-Leader
Year	Non-white % of newsroom staff	Non-white % of circulation area	Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005	10.4	10.2	102
2004	11.1	10.2	109
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, Knight Ridder (Calif.),
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 76.
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Peer group comparison
for Lexington Herald-Leader
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 102.				This paper
				Peer group
Compare that with 64, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 10 out of 58
newspapers reporting in the category of 100,001 to 250,000 daily sales.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 114,234 ranks 90 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 Lexington Herald-Leader
	Circulation area
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	1.7	15,787
Black	6.3	59,385
Asian and Pacific Islander	1.0	9,205
Native-American	0.2	1,725
Other non-white	0.1	935
Multi-racial	1.0	8,915
Non-white	10.2	95,952
White	89.8	845,988
Total		941,940
	Home county:  Fayette
Race/ethnicity	% of population	Number of residents
Hispanic	3.3	8,561
Black	13.4	34,876
Asian and Pacific Islander	2.5	6,440
Native-American	0.2	457
Other non-white	0.2	470
Multi-racial	1.4	3,534
Non-white	20.9	54,338
White	79.1	206,174
Total		260,512
The home county of this newspaper is Fayette.
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
Lexington Herald-Leader
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
40502 / Lexington / KY / 3.8 mi.	6,971	12,897	54.1	$45,769	7.1	1.4	2.5	0.1	2.0
40503 / Lexington / KY / 3.7 mi.	5,981	11,591	51.6	$46,128	9.6	2.5	2.6	0.1	3.3
40508 / Lexington / KY / 0 mi.	4,729	9,707	48.7	$17,901	42.5	3.8	31.6	0.3	5.1
40517 / Lexington / KY / 4.8 mi.	3,788	16,120	23.5	$35,806	19.6	1.8	13.2	0.2	2.2
40505 / Lexington / KY / 2.7 mi.	3,776	11,060	34.1	$33,540	23.0	3.1	17.3	0.2	0.6
40356 / Nicholasville / KY / 11.5 mi.	3,638	11,486	31.7	$41,247	6.0	1.3	3.1	0.2	0.4
40504 / Lexington / KY / 2.1 mi.	3,616	10,988	32.9	$29,903	22.1	8.6	11.0	0.2	0.9
40324 / Georgetown / KY / 11 mi.	3,550	10,445	34.0	$48,322	9.5	1.8	5.7	0.2	0.5
40601 / Hatton / KY / 24.4 mi.	3,541	20,183	17.5	$40,210	12.5	1.1	9.2	0.1	0.7
40511 / Lexington / KY / 2.7 mi.	3,528	6,510	54.2	$37,226	50.2	7.4	40.3	0.3	0.7
40515 / Lexington / KY / 6.2 mi.	3,310	11,460	28.9	$55,195	12.2	1.6	5.7	0.1	3.3
40475 / Richmond / KY / 21.5 mi.	3,261	18,518	17.6	$32,382	8.7	1.0	5.4	0.3	0.8
40383 / Versailles / KY / 10.9 mi.	3,095	7,838	39.5	$49,007	9.8	2.9	5.6	0.1	0.3
40509 / Lexington / KY / 5.5 mi.	2,977	8,884	33.5	$48,804	20.1	2.5	12.6	0.2	3.1
40391 / Winchester / KY / 17.7 mi.	2,929	12,905	22.7	$39,830	7.0	1.2	4.8	0.2	0.2
41701 / Walkertown / KY / 84.8 mi.	2,347	6,776	34.6	$22,645	4.5	0.5	2.6	0.1	0.8
42501 / Walnut Grove / KY / 62.2 mi.	2,222	7,087	31.4	$24,616	4.4	0.8	2.0	0.2	0.4
40513 / Lexington / KY / 5.2 mi.	2,104	3,147	66.9	$77,386	9.2	1.0	2.3	0.1	4.7
40361 / Paris / KY / 16.4 mi.	2,076	6,971	29.8	$35,620	11.2	2.6	7.4	0.1	0.1
40353 / Mount Sterling / KY / 28.8 mi.	1,832	7,083	25.9	$33,257	6.6	1.2	4.4	0.1	0.1
40514 / Lexington / KY / 5.7 mi.	1,734	3,905	44.4	$69,680	7.6	1.2	3.1	0.1	2.1
40741 / Tuttle / KY / 64.7 mi.	1,563	7,580	20.6	$27,430	2.8	0.5	0.7	0.3	0.4
40403 / Berea / KY / 32.6 mi.	1,513	7,819	19.4	$33,440	5.4	0.9	2.7	0.3	0.6
40507 / Lexington / KY / 0.7 mi.	1,506	1,090	138.2	$16,288	33.7	3.6	26.5	0.1	1.5
40422 / Danville / KY / 30.2 mi.	1,454	8,778	16.6	$35,994	14.8	1.5	11.3	0.2