The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington... Racial diversity of its news staff and community

Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists

at America's daily newspapers

with the communities that they serve

Newsroom diversity report for

The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington

Huntington, West Virginia

Owner: Gannett Co. (Va.)

From a report for the Knight Foundation

by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005

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Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

2005

12.9

2004

12.5

2003

10.7

2002

9.4

2001

5.4

2000

5.4

1999

Did not report

1998

Did not report

1997

12.5

1996

10.3

1995

Did not report

1994

Did not report

1993

Did not report

1992

8.6

1991

6.8

1990

Did not report

The latest year at peak is

2005

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Newsroom Diversity Index

for The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington

Year

Non-white % of newsroom staff

Non-white % of circulation area

Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100)

2005

12.9

4.8

268

2004

12.5

4.8

259

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, Gannett Co. (Va.),

has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 89.

See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures.

Peer group comparison

for The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington

This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 268.

This paper

Peer group

Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers

reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.

In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 2 out of 140

newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales.

FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of

approximately 29,323 ranks 348 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 Herald-Dispatch, Huntington

Circulation area

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.6

1,413

Black

2.6

5,899

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.5

1,131

Native-American

0.2

407

Other non-white

0.1

143

Multi-racial

0.9

2,081

Non-white

4.8

11,074

White

95.2

218,490

Total

229,564

Home county: Cabell

Race/ethnicity

% of population

Number of residents

Hispanic

0.7

654

Black

4.3

4,118

Asian and Pacific Islander

0.8

777

Native-American

0.2

166

Other non-white

0.1

Multi-racial

1.1

1,047

Non-white

7.1

6,840

White

92.9

89,944

Total

96,784

The home county of this newspaper is Cabell.

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 Herald-Dispatch, Huntington

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

25701 / Huntington / WV / 0 mi.

5,790

11,374

50.9

$25,504

13.0

1.0

9.0

0.2

1.2

25705 / Huntington / WV / 3.7 mi.

4,049

9,321

43.4

$34,655

6.1

0.5

2.7

0.2

1.3

25704 / Huntington / WV / 5.7 mi.

3,033

7,124

42.6

$27,335

2.9

0.7

0.2

0.4

25504 / Barboursville / WV / 9.3 mi.

2,225

4,397

50.6

$37,051

1.9

0.6

0.3

0.5

45638 / Ironton / OH / 18.2 mi.

1,906

9,011

21.2

$26,938

4.4

0.5

2.8

0.2

25702 / Huntington / WV / 7.1 mi.

1,613

3,675

43.9

$22,760

3.5

0.5

1.4

0.2

0.3

45669 / Proctorville / OH / 8.9 mi.

1,588

4,046

39.2

$32,966

2.3

0.5

0.2

0.5

45680 / South Point / OH / 9.4 mi.

1,499

5,167

29.0

$28,407

6.6

0.8

4.0

0.2

0.1

45619 / Chesapeake / OH / 8.4 mi.

1,110

3,119

35.6

$31,016

2.2

0.5

0.8

0.2

25541 / Milton / WV / 15.2 mi.

1,080

3,296

32.8

$32,233

1.5

0.6

0.2

0.1

0.2

41101 / Ashland / KY / 14.9 mi.

885

8,469

10.4

$30,452

4.8

0.6

2.2

0.1

0.6

25703 / Huntington / WV / 3.7 mi.

798

2,304

34.6

$13,551

20.6

1.2

16.6

0.1

0.9

25545 / Ona / WV / 11.7 mi.

660

1,649

40.0

$39,700

1.3

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.3

25530 / Kenova / WV / 8.3 mi.

648

2,690

24.1

$28,543

1.3

0.3

0.2

0.1

41102 / Ashland / KY / 17.2 mi.

529

8,093

6.5

$35,713

6.4

2.0

3.4

0.2

0.3

25570 / Wayne / WV / 10.1 mi.

482

2,336

20.6

$26,517

1.9

0.5

0.1

0.5

0.2

25535 / Lavalette / WV / 4.1 mi.

431

1,119

38.5

$37,925

1.2

0.1

0.2

0.4

25537 / Lesage / WV / 13 mi.

428

883

48.5

$27,426

1.6

0.9

0.1

45631 / Gallipolis / OH / 30.9 mi.

428

6,477

6.6

$31,285

5.4

0.6

2.9

0.4

0.5

25507 / Ceredo / WV / 8.1 mi.

370

657

56.3

$23,000

3.2

1.2

0.0

0.1

1.0

25550 / Point Pleasant / WV / 38.8 mi.

362

3,811

9.5

$29,420

3.1

0.5

1.2

0.2

0.6

25506 / Branchland / WV / 11.8 mi.

319

2,045

15.6

$20,480

1.6

0.7

0.0

0.2

0.1

25514 / Fort Gay / WV / 16.7 mi.

312

1,491

20.9

$26,065

1.5

0.4

0.1

0.4

0.2

41129 / Catlettsburg / KY / 12.6 mi.

294

3,895

7.5

$34,827

1.5

0.3

0.5

0.2

0.0

25510 / Culloden / WV / 18.5 mi.

281

2,038

13.8

$39,038

1.8

0.4

0.1

0.3

25512 / East Lynn / WV / 13.2 mi.

270