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To: Moonray who wrote (11796)	1/20/1998 8:22:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Online News Sites Expect to Add 40% Additional Staff in 1998 PR Newswire - January 20, 1998 03:00 %MLM %PDT V%PRN P%PRN 44% of Online Editors Earn More Than $55,000 a Year; New Survey Details News Site Salary and Staffing Practices NEW YORK, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The "typical" online news site in North America employs 8 people and is expecting to grow to 11 within a year -- representing growth of nearly 40% among a cross-section of small, medium and large sites. The typical European site now has 5 employees and expects to grow to 9 a year from now (+80%), indicating a strong will to catch up. Online news operations run by daily newspapers will drive this growth, with the typical site increasing staff by 57% in the next year, according to a new survey of 140 online news Web sites conducted by Interactive Publishing Surveys ( interactivepublishing.ch ). The same survey reveals salary structures of 19 different online news job titles. The median (worldwide) annual salary for online editors is US $51,000; for new media managers, $59,000; and for Webmasters, $43,000. The median starting annual salary for recent college graduates is about $25,000. At European sites, the median starting salary is about $31,000, and 46% of new grads earn more than $32,000 annually (vs. 8% at U.S. news sites). These and other findings are available in this detailed survey of managers of 140 online news sites worldwide. The survey represents a first international benchmark on salary and staffing trends within the online news industry. Authors: Riley Kirby/Interactive Marketing & Research (USA); Steve Outing/Planetary News (USA), a well known interactive media columnist for Editor & Publisher; and Norbert Specker/Interactive Publishing (Switzerland), proprietor of the popular annual Interactive Publishing conference in Europe. All are consultants and researchers who have been tracking the online news industry for 5 years. Relevance of topics and the final report was critically reviewed by a Board of Advisors, comprised of some of the world's best known interactive news industry executives: Michel Colonna D'Istria/Le Monde; Leah Gentry/Los Angeles Times; Bruno Giussani/N.Y. Times Electronic Media Co., L'Hebdo; Uli Hegge/Gruner+Jahr; Chris Jennewein/Knight-Ridder New Media; Jan Lamers/Uitgeversbedrijf Tijd NV; Hans Lindroth/Dagens Nhyeter; Paul Maidment/Financial Times; Martin Nisenholtz/New York Times Electronic Media Co.; Mike Pilmer/Hollinger Digital Canada; and Scott Woelfel/CNN Interactive. A free Executive Summary of the report can be found at planetarynews.com Purchase Information: A Standard Report and Expanded Report may be purchased for US $400 and US $500, respectively. (See planetarynews.com SOURCE Catchup Communications /CONTACT: Steve Outing of Planetary News, North America, E-mail steve@planetarynews.com, or 303-543-7810; or Riley Kirby of Interactive Marketing & Research, oriley@inter-active.com, or 704-341-3270; Europe -- Norbert Specker of Interactive Publishing, Catchup! Communications, nspecker@interactivepublishing.ch, or +41 1 994 74 94/ /Web Site: planetarynews.com or inter-active.com interactivepublishing.ch or catchup.ch