Nearly half of all sites reported no employee departures in the last year. 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. 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. The word seems to be in. According to a column in last week's Wall Street Journal, Intellimatch went belly up at the end of last year. It's the first major casualty in the shakeout. More are coming.