Among those that did lose people, most lost only 1 or 2 online employees. Job satisfaction at this stage of the industry appears to be high. European sites were more receptive to hiring the newly graduated than American sites. The majority of news sites do not have anyone devoted full time to marketing themselves. Most online news sites primarily have staff members devoted exclusively to working on the online operation, with a modest percentage of job titles crossing over into responsibilities at other departments within the company.
European sites have more titles that have dual company roles than do American sites.
Also, smaller print publishers have more shared positions than do larger publishers. 140 companies are represented in this survey. Participants came from throughout the world, but predominantly from North America and Europe. Our results seem to indicate bullishness on the part of news Web sites, since most expect to grow significantly in staff size within the next year. This was IPS' first survey of the interactive news industry.