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
Click here to read the national report or to select another newspaper
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 78
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 0.7 0.2 0.4
25504 / Barboursville / WV / 9.3 mi. 2,225 4,397 50.6 $37,051 1.9 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.5
45638 / Ironton / OH / 18.2 mi. 1,906 9,011 21.2 $26,938 4.4 0.5 2.8 0.2 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 0.5 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 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 0.2 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 0.1 0.2 0.4
25537 / Lesage / WV / 13 mi. 428 883 48.5 $27,426 1.6 0.9 0.1 0.1 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 0.4 0.1 0.3
25512 / East Lynn / WV / 13.2 mi. 270 712 37.9 $21,116 1.4 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1
25559 / Salt Rock / WV / 9.9 mi. 245 742 33.0 $32,614 1.1 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.2
25526 / Hurricane / WV / 23 mi. 209 7,460 2.8 $46,440 3.1 0.6 0.8 0.1 1.1
25523 / Hamlin / WV / 17.9 mi. 203 1,207 16.8 $25,729 1.7 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.0
25555 / Prichard / WV / 12.5 mi. 190 776 24.5 $29,024 1.4 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.2
25661 / Williamson / WV / 45.6 mi. 189 2,473 7.6 $22,139 10.8 0.7 8.4 0.3 0.5
25571 / West Hamlin / WV / 14 mi. 186 784 23.7 $25,571 1.6 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.1
41139 / Flatwoods / KY / 19.8 mi. 181 3,620 5.0 $31,454 2.0 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.3
41230 / Louisa / KY / 28.2 mi. 177 4,325 4.1 $22,513 1.4 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.1
25520 / Glenwood / WV / 17.9 mi. 157 587 26.7 $26,172 1.2 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1
25601 / Logan / WV / 42.5 mi. 156 2,856 5.5 $22,302 6.2 0.5 4.2 0.2 0.5
45623 / Crown City / OH / 18.9 mi. 130 1,423 9.1 $26,167 2.8 1.2 0.4 0.1 0.0
45645 / Kitts Hill / OH / 15.7 mi. 125 1,057 11.8 $33,021 1.6 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.1
25314 / Charleston / WV / 39.8 mi. 99 6,300 1.6 $62,445 8.4 0.7 3.1 0.2 3.3
41144 / Greenup / KY / 30.8 mi. 96 3,982 2.4 $28,779 2.9 0.6 1.3 0.2 0.2
25517 / Genoa / WV / 20.6 mi. 95 621 15.3 $19,107 1.6 0.5 0.0 0.3 0.1
25515 / Gallipolis Ferry / WV / 31.3 mi. 84 904 9.3 $27,458 1.6 0.5 0.0 0.2 0.1
25260 / Mason / WV / 47.3 mi. 81 760 10.7 $26,563 2.4 0.5 0.1 0.8 0.2
25560 / Scott Depot / WV / 28.3 mi. 65 3,022 2.2 $47,118 2.5 0.6 0.5 0.1 0.7
45678 / Scottown / OH / 16.8 mi. 60 424 14.2 $32,250 0.9 0.6 0.0 0.3 0.0
25508 / Chapmanville / WV / 35.1 mi. 56 3,852 1.5 $26,501 1.5 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.4
41169 / Russell / KY / 20 mi. 52 1,873 2.8 $45,915 3.0 0.7 0.7 0.0 1.0
41143 / Grayson / KY / 31.7 mi. 50 5,188 1.0 $28,796 1.6 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.2
25502 / Apple Grove / WV / 26.2 mi. 46 449 10.2 $24,545 2.1 1.2 0.1 0.1 0.0
25503 / Ashton / WV / 25.3 mi. 46 314 14.6 $29,911 1.6 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.5
45696 / Willow Wood / OH / 15.8 mi. 40 502 8.0 $25,179 1.2 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.3
45659 / Pedro / OH / 23.6 mi. 36 1,128 3.2 $23,617 1.5 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0
25557 / Ranger / WV / 20 mi. 34 780 4.4 $16,354 1.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1
45694 / Wheelersburg / OH / 33.1 mi. 32 4,421 0.7 $33,048 2.3 0.5 0.2 0.5 0.2
25674 / Kermit / WV / 35.1 mi. 29 1,212 2.4 $20,341 1.6 0.5 0.5 0.1 0.2
45629 / Franklin Furnace / OH / 28.3 mi. 28 1,223 2.3 $28,682 5.8 0.5 3.4 0.6 0.1
25312 / Charleston / WV / 39.4 mi. 24 6,525 0.4 $28,972 11.5 0.5 9.4 0.2 0.3
45662 / Portsmouth / OH / 39.7 mi. 24 13,268 0.2 $24,562 6.9 0.8 3.4 0.5 0.5
25524 / Harts / WV / 28.4 mi. 23 1,309 1.8 $19,531 1.3 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.2
45674 / Rio Grande / OH / 35.6 mi. 23 181 12.7 $16,458 9.8 0.6 4.5 1.3 1.4
25265 / New Haven / WV / 48.8 mi. 22 704 3.1 $28,942 2.1 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.3
45620 / Cheshire / OH / 43.5 mi. 17 492 3.5 $32,500 2.6 0.2 0.7 0.8 0.0
25635 / Man / WV / 53.8 mi. 15 573 2.6 $28,864 3.7 0.5 1.1 0.1 2.0
45769 / Pomeroy / OH / 54.6 mi. 12 2,610 0.5 $26,492 2.6 0.4 0.8 0.2 0.1
41267 / Warfield / KY / 35.4 mi. 7 528 1.3 $13,750 1.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.3
25670 / Delbarton / WV / 48.7 mi. 6 2,813 0.2 $24,848 2.5 0.5 0.9 0.3 0.1
41224 / Inez / KY / 35 mi. 2 1,994 0.1 $20,653 1.2 0.7 0.0 0.1 0.1
25678 / Matewan / WV / 51.8 mi. 1 584 0.2 $18,661 3.2 0.4 1.8 0.4 0.0
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