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Daily paper in Anaheim, California

Orange County Register
Orange County Register, Jan. 01, 2013,jpg.jpg

The Jan 1, 2013, front page
of the Register

Blazon Daily paper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(southward) Digital Starting time Media
Publisher Ron Hasse[1]
Editor Frank Pine[2]
Founded 1905; 117 years ago  (1905) (as Santa Ana Daily Annals)
Language English language
Headquarters 2190 S. Towne Centre Identify
Anaheim, California 92806
Circulation 80,000 daily; 180,000 Sunday
ISSN 0886-4934
OCLC number 12199155
Website ocregister.com

The Orange Canton Register logo in 2007

The Orange County Register is a paid daily newspaper published in California. The Register, published in Anaheim, is endemic past Digital First Media. Freedom Communications owned the paper from 1935 to 2016.

History [edit]

The Register was founded past a consortium as the Santa Ana Daily Register in 1905. It was sold to J.P. Baumgartner in 1906 and to J. Frank Burke in 1927. In 1935 it was bought past Raymond C. Hoiles, who renamed it the Santa Ana Register. After the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor, Hoiles was ane of the few newspaper publishers in the country to oppose the forced relocation of Japanese and Japanese Americans to camps away from the West Declension.[3] Hoiles reorganized his holdings equally Freedom Newspapers, Inc. In 1950, the proper name was changed to Freedom Communications. The newspaper dropped "Santa Ana" from its title in 1952.

In 1956, the newspaper was a prominent supporter of a vociferous entrada by anti-communists against the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Human action, challenge that it was office of a Communist plot to constitute concentration camps in Alaska. Circulation rose with the burgeoning population of Orange County and after the Register added a morning edition in 1959.

In 1970 Hoiles's sons, Clarence and Harry, became co-publishers until 1979, when R. David Threshie, Clarence's son-in-police, was named to the position.

1980s [edit]

Faced with an aggressive button into the county past the Los Angeles Times under then-publisher Otis Chandler, Threshie brought in 30-year-old N. Christian Anderson 3 as editor. Political positions were restricted to the editorial page. In 1981, the paper began publishing in full color.[ citation needed ]

In 1985, the paper assumed the name The Orange County Annals. In the same year it won its outset Pulitzer Prize, for its photographic coverage of the 1984 Summertime Olympics in Los Angeles. It won boosted Pulitzers in 1989 for beat reporting by Edward Humes on U.S. armed services problems with nighttime-vision goggles and in 1996 for an investigation into Ricardo Asch's fertility clinics.[iv]

1990s [edit]

In 1990, the newspaper launched the 24-hour OCN news aqueduct with news and feature stories about Orangish Canton. It closed in 2001.[v]

In 1992, Orange Canton Register Communications launched Excélsior, a Spanish-language weekly. In 2010 Excélsior had a apportionment of 51,000.[6] It covers Orangish County's growing Hispanic community, which now numbers over a million. Julio Saenz is the editor and full general manager.

In 1999, Threshie became chairman of the lath of Freedom Communications, and Northward. Christian Anderson III causeless the position of publisher and main executive officer.

2000s [edit]

Ken Brusic was named vice president of content and executive editor in Apr 2002.[7] In 2003, a family schism led to a sale on Oct. 9th of a majority interest in Freedom Communications to investors led by the Blackstone Group and Providence Equity Partners. Through a stock organisation, the Hoiles family unit descendants retained control of the board.

In 2006, Orange County Register Communications launched the OC Post, a tabloid with shortened versions of Register stories as well as news articles from the Associated Press. The newspaper likewise had its first significant staff reductions in Dec 2006, with 40 newsroom employees taking buyouts, forth with a small number of layoffs.

By April 2007, The Orange County Register had made additional staff cuts to help maintain shareholder profit, which had averaged more than 20 percent annually in the preceding v years. Since the launch of the OC Post in 2006, OCRC[ clarification needed ] has cut the Register'due south editorial staff by ten percent, eliminated its 3% holiday bonuses for editorial staff. and postponed pay raises to editorial staff, which had averaged three percent annually, for six months.[ citation needed ] In September 2007, Terry Horne replaced N. Christian Anderson III every bit publisher.

In June 2008, KTLA, The Los Angeles Times and Fox News reported that the Annals had begun a ane-month trial of outsourcing some layout and copy-editing work to Bharat to save costs.[8] The trial was non accounted a success, and since then editing has been done past the Register in Orange County. In spring of 2009, Freedom Communications instituted furloughs for all employees nationwide, followed by a permanent 5% pay cut starting in July 2009. News reports in Baronial 2009 indicated that Freedom Communications planned to file for bankruptcy and plow control of its publications, including The Orange County Register, over to its lenders.[9]

In September 2009, a column written by sports columnist Marking Whicker acquired controversy.[10] In the column,[eleven] Whicker wrote about various sporting events that had occurred over the preceding 18 years, and how they had been missed past Jaycee Dugard, a girl who had been kidnapped, raped, and forced to bear her kidnapper'southward children. Whicker ended his column with the line "Jaycee, y'all take left the k." The cavalcade generated widespread criticism and was parodied in blogs such as Deadspin,[12] who called it "the single worst piece of journalism always committed on this page," and The Huffington Post.

2010s [edit]

On July 25, 2012, The Orange Canton Annals and six other papers were purchased by 2100 Trust LLC.[13] The papers continued to operate nether the Freedom Communications name.[14] In December the Register inverse its logo and branding, dropping "The" in favor of Orange County Register.[15]

A lawsuit was filed in October 2013 past the former owners of Freedom Communications confronting Aaron Kushner, principal of 2100 Trust, demanding that Kushner'southward company pay more than $17 million remaining on the sale. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Kushner, "a quondam greeting-menu executive with no prior media experience," claimed that the prior owners had given him "inaccurate valuations for a host of crucial financial indicators" and that he faced "$62.three one thousand thousand in unexpected financial liabilities as a result."[xiv] On August nineteen, 2013, the Long Beach Register was launched as an edition of the Orange County Register serving the Long Beach, California, community. It was focused solely on community news, including city government, public and private education, local sports coverage, business concern and entertainment equally an intended competitor to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. In add-on, on January 20, 2014, The Press-Enterprise became an edition of the Orange Canton Register while maintaining coverage of the Inland Empire.[16]

On April 16, 2014, the Orange County Register launched the Los Angeles Register, "more a impress play than a digital one" serving Los Angeles Canton. Information technology was the first time since the Herald-Examiner folded on November 1, 1989, that a main competitor to the Los Angeles Times was launched, this time intended to be "as local every bit i edition can be for the entire county."[17] V months later, Kushner announced in a company memo that the Los Angeles Annals was ending publication effective immediately. Kushner wrote that "pundits and local competitors" will be quick to call the endeavour a failure while he believes that "not taking bold steps toward growth" would have been the true failure.[xviii] The Long Embankment Register became a Sunday-but publication in June 2014,[xix] and ceased publication in December 2014.[xx] In October the Los Angeles Times sued the Register for failing to pay more $2 million to the Times for delivery services for the now-defunct Register newspapers in Los Angeles and Long Beach. In March 2014 the Los Angeles Superior Court granted the Times a $4.two million writ of attachment to secure the ability of the Times to enforce a possible judgment in its favor.[21]

On March ten, 2015, Aaron Kushner and his partner, Eric Spitz, resigned from executive duties at the paper and Freedom Communications Inc. The company was rumored to be readying itself for a potential sale. Publisher Rich Mirman, a quondam Las Vegas casino executive who had invested in Freedom, was appear as the new president and chief executive.[22]

On February 12, 2016, Freedom Communications announced that the Orangish County Annals and the Printing-Enterprise along with its websites, customs weeklies and the ii Spanish-Linguistic communication weeklies Excelsior in Orangish County and La Prensa in the Inland Empire, were being placed in a "stalking horse" auction afterward the visitor alleged broke at the finish of 2015. Both Digital First Media and Tribune Publishing were the bidders. The sale started on March 21 and was completed on March 31, 2016. The U.Due south. Department of Justice blocked the sale of Freedom Communications to Tribune Publishing because it would create a newspaper monopoly in both Orange and Riverside Counties..On March 21, 2016, Digital First Media acquired both the Orangish County Register and the Press-Enterprise for $52.iii million in a U.Southward. Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana. Los Angeles News Group was renamed Southern California News Group on March 31, 2016, once the sale of Freedom Communications to Digital First Media was completed. It has 11 paid regional dailies, and customs weeklies serving the South Bay communities of Hermosa Beach, Redondo Embankment and Palos Verdes Peninsula, the Long Beach neighborhoods northward and eastward of downtown and over xx community weeklies in Orange County, as well equally the Spanish-linguistic communication weeklies Impacto United states and Unidos, now consolidated as Excelsior, which will have three editions for Los Angeles Canton, Orange County and Inland Empire.[23] On Sept. 21, 2016, it was appear that the Register would motility its headquarters to 2190 Towne Center Place, Anaheim, and vacate its longtime dwelling at 625 N. Grand Ave., Santa Ana.[24] The new headquarters opened April 24, 2017.[25]

The Alliance for Audited Media reported in 2017 that the Register'due south circulation had dropped to 80,000 on weekdays and 180,000 on Sundays.[26]

Editorial stances [edit]

The Register was notable for its more often than not libertarian-leaning editorial folio.[27] Information technology more often than not supported gratuitous markets and social liberties, though at to the lowest degree some on the editorial board said they would not call it libertarian.[28] Although it sometimes supported Republican politicians and positions, it was the largest paper in the country to have opposed the Iraq State of war from the showtime and opposed laws regulating issues such equally prostitution and drug utilise. It was one of a handful of newspapers that opposed the internment of Japanese aliens and Japanese-Americans during Earth War Two.[29] [30] It besides opposed Proposition 8 in 2008, which proposed to define the word "spousal relationship" in the California Constitution to mean between a homo and a woman definitively.[31] Afterwards the Digital First purchase of Liberty Communications, the Annals 'south editorial folio was merged with that of the Los Angeles Daily News and Digital Showtime'due south other papers in the region to form a single editorial board for the Southern California News Group on regional and national issues.[32]

Other publications [edit]

In improver to publishing the Orange County Register, Southern California News Group publishes OC Family magazine, Declension magazine, and the following affiliated weeklies:[33]

  • Anaheim Bulletin of Anaheim[34]
  • Coastal Current (North and South editions) of Newport Beach[35] [36]
  • North County News Tribune of Fullerton[34]
  • Irvine Globe News of Irvine[36] [37] [38]
  • Laguna Woods Globe of Laguna Wood
  • Saddleback Valley News of Lake Forest/Mission Viejo[34]
  • The Wave of Huntington Beach

Online content [edit]

On April one, 2013, the Orange County Register began providing its online content through a metered paywall. Most online content required a subscription, with the exception of local weather, traffic, Associated Printing or non-Register articles, and a few select local news manufactures.[39] As of October 2015, the website does not have a paywall and online content is free.[ commendation needed ] As of May 2018, the paywall has been reinstated.[40]

See as well [edit]

  • OC Weekly

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Register names new publisher" Executive team named for So Cal News Group to lead the Orangish County Annals, April 2, 2016
  2. ^ "[1]" Executive Leadership, updated April 14, 2016
  3. ^ Register, Orange Canton (November 18, 2007). "In his own words: R.C. Hoiles on the WWII Japanese internment". Orange Canton Register . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  4. ^ Graham, Harry L., Cease the Damned Presses!, pp. 183–186, Words & Pictures Press, Clear-water, FL, 2005.
  5. ^ Moxley, R. Scott. "And then Long, OCN", OC Weekly, Orangish County, 20 September 2001. Retrieved on 23 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Updated 'Excélsior' Statistics for 2010". Echo Media.
  7. ^ "Executive Leadership". The Orange Canton Register. September 25, 2009. Retrieved Baronial 6, 2011.
  8. ^ "OC Annals to Outsource Editing to India". Trick News. June 25, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
  9. ^ Kouwe, Zachery (August 31, 2009). "Owner of Orange County Register May File for Defalcation". New York Times . Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  10. ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (September 14, 2009). "Outrage Over Column on California Kidnapping". New York Times . Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  11. ^ Whicker, Mark (September vii, 2009). "Many odd things accept happened in sports the past 18 years". The Orange County Register. Archived from the original on June 25, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
  12. ^ Tommy Craggs (September nine, 2009). "Mark Whicker Leaves The Yard". Deadspin.com. Retrieved Baronial half dozen, 2011.
  13. ^ Milbourn, Mary Ann (July 25, 2012). "Freedom Communications closes sale of the Register". Orange Canton Annals (archive). Archived from the original on August 29, 2012. Retrieved Apr 1, 2013.
  14. ^ a b Ken Bensinger, "O.C. Register Sellers Sue New Ower," Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2013, page 33
  15. ^ "Orange Canton Register". Archived from the original on December 17, 2012. Retrieved March 31, 2014 (Dec 15 annal shows previous logo). {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  16. ^ "To Our Readers: Come across the New and Enhanced Press-Enterprise". The Press-Enterprise. Riverside, California. January twenty, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  17. ^ Dr., Ken (April xvi, 2014). "Six things to consider about the new Los Angeles Register". Nieman Lab. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  18. ^ Khouri, Andrew (September 23, 2014). "Freedom Newspapers Ceases Publication of L.A. Annals". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  19. ^ Lopez, Ricardo (June 3, 2014). "O.C. Register possessor to cut staff, merge Long Embankment and Fifty.A. newspapers". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  20. ^ Pfeifer, Stuart; Khouri, Andrew (Dec 28, 2014). "Long Beach Register stops publishing". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  21. ^ Reynolds, Matt (March 17, 2015). "LA Times Wins $4.2M Lien Against Register". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved April ix, 2015.
  22. ^ "O.C. Annals owners quit: Aaron Kushner, Eric Spitz resign executive duties". Los Angeles Times. March 10, 2015. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  23. ^ Pressberg, Matt (March 21, 2016). "Tribune Abandons Bid For OC Annals Following DOJ Lawsuit, Paving Manner For Digital Showtime Buy". International Business Times . Retrieved May four, 2016.
  24. ^ "Orange County Register moving headquarters from Santa Ana to Anaheim in 2017 – Orange County Register". September 21, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  25. ^ "Contact Us". Orange County Register. March 16, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  26. ^ Brandon Angel (May vii, 2018). "The OC Register volition no longer encompass Orange Canton small theater productions". Daily Titan . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  27. ^ Lattman, Peter; Adams, Russell (August 31, 2009). "Paper Owner Freedom Plans to File For Chapter 11". The Wall Street Journal. p. B1.
  28. ^ Jonathan Polakoff (Jan 13, 2014). "Newspaper Claims Correct Focus for L.A." Los Angeles Business Periodical.
  29. ^ "R.C. Hoiles, Master of Freedom Paper Concatenation, Dies at 91". Los Angeles Times. October 31, 1970. p. C1.
  30. ^ "Raymond C. Hoiles, 91, Is Dead". New York Times. Oct 31, 1970. p. 32.
  31. ^ "Proposition 8". 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  32. ^ "Brian Calle expands oversight of opinion and commentary coverage". Orangish County Register. Apr 14, 2016.
  33. ^ Register, Orangish County. "Advertisement and Marketing Services | Brands". OC Register . Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  34. ^ a b c "Athenaeum". Los Angeles Times.
  35. ^ "OC Register Ramps Upward Newport Beach, Costa Mesa Coverage".
  36. ^ a b DiMartino, Mediha (May thirty, 2014). "Sources Say Freedom to Furlough Staff, Trim Long Beach to Weekly Schedule". Orange County Business organization Journal . Retrieved June 15, 2014.
  37. ^ Register Parent Buys iii Weekly Newspapers
  38. ^ "Irvine Globe News officially becomes daily paper". July 22, 2013.
  39. ^ Register to launch online paywall (Subscription required) Retrieved April 1, 2013
  40. ^ OC Annals to charge for unlimited access to digital news to help support local journalism Retrieved July 18, 2018

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Orange County Register Online Teaching (An Online Education Information Portal)
  • OCExcelsior.com (sis publication) (in Spanish)
  • Liberty Communications flagship contour of The Orange County Register

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