Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists
at America's daily newspapers
with the communities that they serve
Newsroom diversity report for
Valley News, White River Junction
White River Junction, New Hampshire
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 Did not report
2004 Did not report
2003 Did not report
2002 Did not report
2001 0.0
2000 Did not report
1999 Did not report
1998 Did not report
1997 Did not report
1996 Did not report
1995 Did not report
1994 Did not report
1993 Did not report
1992 Did not report
1991 Did not report
1990 Did not report
The latest year at peak is 2001
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.
Newsroom Diversity Index
for Valley News, White River Junction
Year Non-white % of newsroom staff Non-white % of circulation area Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)
2005 N/A 4.6 N/A
2004 N/A 4.6 N/A
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 Valley News, White River Junction
This paper
Peer group
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers
reporting in this circulation 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 Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226.
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of
approximately 17,091 ranks 553 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 Valley News, White River Junction
Circulation area
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 1.1 970
Black 0.5 486
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6 1,451
Native-American 0.3 254
Other non-white 0.1 97
Multi-racial 1.0 873
  Non-white 4.6 4,131
White 95.4 85,915
Total 90,046
Home county:  Grafton
Race/ethnicity % of population Number of residents
Hispanic 1.1 914
Black 0.5 419
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7 1,420
Native-American 0.3 240
Other non-white 0.1 88
Multi-racial 1.1 932
  Non-white 4.9 4,013
White 95.1 77,730
Total 81,743
The home county of this newspaper is Grafton.
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
Valley News, White River Junction
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
03766 / Lebanon / NH / 5 mi. 2,094 3,755 55.8 $42,693 5.6 1.3 0.7 0.4 2.3
03755 / Hanover / NH / 5.1 mi. 1,615 2,462 65.6 $69,430 14.4 2.8 1.9 0.4 7.3
05001 / White River Junction / VT / 0 mi. 1,383 3,961 34.9 $43,125 3.5 0.8 0.6 0.3 0.9
03784 / West Lebanon / NH / 2.5 mi. 1,327 1,627 81.6 $42,397 9.2 2.6 1.0 0.4 3.6
05055 / Norwich / VT / 4.2 mi. 697 1,349 51.7 $66,214 4.5 0.8 0.5 0.2 1.7
05089 / Windsor / VT / 12 mi. 628 2,254 27.9 $36,795 2.7 0.9 0.1 0.3 0.3
05091 / Woodstock / VT / 7.8 mi. 618 1,429 43.2 $48,814 2.5 1.1 0.2 0.1 0.4
03748 / Enfield / NH / 10.6 mi. 577 2,446 23.6 $47,054 2.7 0.8 0.2 0.1 0.7
03743 / Claremont / NH / 19 mi. 546 5,848 9.3 $35,305 2.6 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.6
05048 / Hartland / VT / 5.1 mi. 453 731 62.0 $47,950 2.2 0.9 0.2 0.1 0.5
03741 / Orange / NH / 16.5 mi. 414 1,227 33.7 $42,877 2.4 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.3
05033 / South Corinth / VT / 24.2 mi. 412 1,091 37.8 $37,500 2.6 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.3
03753 / Grantham / NH / 13.5 mi. 369 832 44.4 $62,188 2.0 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.4
05068 / South Royalton / VT / 11.7 mi. 340 1,278 26.6 $32,164 3.2 0.9 0.8 0.3 0.8
03768 / Lyme / NH / 11.5 mi. 337 785 42.9 $54,545 1.6 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.6
05045 / Lake Morey / VT / 18.3 mi. 292 649 45.0 $43,512 3.3 0.5 0.3 0.6 0.7
05059 / Quechee / VT / 3.4 mi. 279 296 94.3 $55,662 2.9 1.3 0.2 0.2 0.8
05088 / Wilder / VT / 2.1 mi. 271 339 79.9 $34,444 3.9 0.8 0.4 0.5 0.9
03750 / Etna / NH / 7.6 mi. 226 366 61.7 $86,421 2.8 0.1 0.3 0.0 1.9
03781 / Plainfield / NH / 20 mi. 211 730 28.9 $58,011 2.0 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3
05075 / Thetford Center / VT / 11 mi. 210 578 36.3 $47,321 2.6 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.5
03773 / Newport / NH / 21.1 mi. 207 3,017 6.9 $38,573 2.4 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.3
03745 / Cornish / NH / 8.6 mi. 204 648 31.5 $52,557 2.5 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3
05032 / Olympus / VT / 17.4 mi. 198 1,097 18.0 $36,138 3.0 1.1 0.2 0.2 0.5
05156 / Weathersfield Center / VT / 24.4 mi. 198 3,810 5.2 $34,877 2.9 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.8
05043 / East Thetford / VT / 12.5 mi. 193 240 80.4 $49,750 2.4 0.8 0.2 0.0 0.2
05065 / Sharon / VT / 7.8 mi. 169 470 36.0 $41,875 3.9 1.1 0.5 0.5 0.5
03777 / Orford / NH / 20.2 mi. 157 361 43.5 $45,341 4.0 1.2 0.1 0.2 0.5
03257 / New London / NH / 23.1 mi. 150 1,716 8.7 $59,625 2.1 0.7 0.2 0.1 0.7
05060 / West Brookfield / VT / 22 mi. 141 1,857 7.6 $38,140 2.4 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.6
03770 / Meriden / NH / 9.9 mi. 132 117 112.8 $55,417 3.6 0.0 0.3 1.6 1.3
05070 / South Strafford / VT / 11 mi. 100 179 55.9 $52,917 2.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.5
05077 / Tunbridge / VT / 17.3 mi. 94 491 19.1 $40,000 2.0 1.0 0.2 0.1 0.2
05037 / Brownsville / VT / 14.6 mi. 91 168 54.2 $51,000 3.0 1.8 0.0 0.8 0.0
03240 / Grafton / NH / 18.9 mi. 82 424 19.3 $37,596 2.1 0.6 0.0 0.3 0.4
05031 / Barnard / VT / 13 mi. 78 44 177.3 $36,250 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
03785 / Woodsville / NH / 34.9 mi. 75 1,400 5.4 $36,686 2.1 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.3
03779 / Piermont / NH / 23.6 mi. 73 294 24.8 $38,611 2.4 1.0 0.1 0.0 0.3
05038 / Chelsea / VT / 21.3 mi. 73 524 13.9 $32,813 2.1 0.4 0.2 0.7 0.1
05058 / Post Mills / VT / 15.4 mi. 67 31 216.1 $31,000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
03765 / Haverhill / NH / 28.2 mi. 60 155 38.7 $42,768 0.9 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.3
03782 / Sunapee / NH / 21 mi. 57 1,160 4.9 $50,479 2.3 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.4
03603 / Charlestown / NH / 27.6 mi. 56 2,151 2.6 $38,512 1.8 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.2
05051 / South Newbury / VT / 30.9 mi. 56 224 25.0 $26,116 1.7 0.4 0.0 1.1 0.0
05083 / West Fairlee / VT / 18.4 mi. 55 84 65.5 $31,458 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0
05040 / East Corinth / VT / 26.5 mi. 53 139 38.1 $36,131 3.3 0.3 0.5 0.5 1.0
05084 / West Hartford / VT / 3.9 mi. 52 44 118.2 $47,708 0.8 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
05061 / Randolph Center / VT / 20.4 mi. 51 417 12.2 $51,458 3.0 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.6
05072 / Strafford / VT / 13.9 mi. 51 205 24.9 $44,688 1.8 0.8 0.2 0.0 0.2
03284 / West Springfield / NH / 18.1 mi. 48 157 30.6 $39,219 1.2 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.3
05062 / Reading Center / VT / 15.3 mi. 47 322 14.6 $41,389 2.2 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.3
05067 / South Pomfret / VT / 8.5 mi. 47 81 58.0 $51,250 3.8 0.9 0.0 0.0 1.4
05053 / North Pomfret / VT / 7.5 mi. 45 76 59.2 $64,375 2.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5
05079 / Vershire / VT / 19.1 mi. 37 261 14.2 $37,353 2.1 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3
03751 / Georges Mills / NH / 20 mi. 34 158 21.5 $36,500 3.3 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.6
05034 / West Bridgewater / VT / 13.5 mi. 33 118 28.0 $39,250 3.4 0.0 1.7 0.0 0.3
05035 / West Bridgewater / VT / 15.7 mi. 32 299 10.7 $39,028 1.2 0.1 0.0 0.4 0.4
05074 / Thetford Hill / VT / 11.8 mi. 32 66 48.5 $68,250 3.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 0.6
05081 / Wells River / VT / 34.6 mi. 32 374 8.6 $35,000 3.2 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.1
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