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July 25, 2006
R.I.P, Orange County Register
Last year, the parent company of the Orange County Register, Freedom Communications, launched this fishwrap to reach a younger demographic since the Reg's core readership was born around the Roosevelt administration (Teddy, not FDR). This followed in the wake of the paper's continuing advertising ca ... More >>
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September 29, 2006
Register One Step From Layoffs
To prevent layoffs on the heels of a sharp decline in advertising revenue, Freedom Communications--the parent company of The Orange County Register--today offered voluntary severance packages to employees, according to sources. "If not enough people opt out, then there will be layoffs," a veteran o ... More >>
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May 23, 2007
Register Gone Red?
The Orange County Register's parent company, Blackstone Group, said Red money is good money May 22 as they accepted $3 billion from its newest partner, the Chinese government, according to reports from several news agencies. Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that owns 28 daily newspapers and ... More >>
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July 15, 2007
Sunday's Headlines & Surprises
John Wayne and the Grey, er, Wild Goose: Greg Aragon reports that John Wayne's 1942 yacht, Wild Goose, remains a work horse tour boat for Hornblower Cruises & Events in the area and that the long dead actor's spiritual presence is aboard. (If dying doesn't change bad habits, I presume he's still in ... More >>
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August 22, 2007
The New Reg Regime
The Register has -somewhat- reported that their publisher, N. Christian Anderson III, is on his way out, and Terry Horne of the East Valley Tribune is settling into his seat. I say somewhat because while the Reggie's article says who is taking Anderson's job, it doesn't touch upon the all-important ... More >>
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January 8, 2008
SCOWL Part 2: More Layoffs at the Register!
The Orange County Register is apparently running a story tomorrow saying that 25 people are being laid off from the paper in just the latest downsizing by Freedom Communications and its corporate investor overlord, Blackstone. One person who's leaving is Susan Jacobs, an editor who took a buy-out ... More >>
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February 11, 2008
What you missed over the weekend: Part IX
The Gothla Festival hit Fullerton from Friday to Sunday, and we were there in full force. Christopher Victorio took some beautiful pictures of the ladies gyrating in all sorts of intricate outfits at Saturday night's Gothic Gala. (Check those out here.) Luke Thompson and Derek Olson were also in att ... More >>
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April 29, 2008
Reg Obit Writer Among Those to Leave Paper
There's something a little sad—ironic is too obvious a word—in the apparent fact that Robin Hinch, the Register's famed obituary writer, is among the casualties of the paper's most recent round of self-immolation. Today I received an anonymous tip from a source with ties to the Register's news ... More >>
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June 19, 2008
Gunga Din, Bring Copy!
Sources we know who know sources at the Register say there's a rumor circulating around Grand Street, namely that the visionary wizards at Freedom Communications are about to embark on a new experiment: outsourcing weekend copy editing for the Register-owned San Clemente Sun-Post to the Indian subco ... More >>
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July 14, 2008
Times Begins Layoffs, Reg to Up the Ante?
Today, according to reports on LAObserved and Fishbowl LA, the Los Angeles Times got an early start to the layoffs announced last week of 150 newsroom employees. Editors have already drawn up lists of names of folks who will be handed pink slips. But with the surprise—not really—exception of pub ... More >>
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June 1, 2009
Called It! Reg. Owner CEO A Playboy Candidate (Updated: This IS Happening)
No, silly, Freedom Communications's CEO Scott Flanders isn't posing in the venerated skin mag -- we hope. But he is being considered to run it, according to The Wall Street Journal, via the Register's own business blog (wonder if Reg real estate guru Jon Lasner got permission from the top to link to ... More >>
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October 9, 2008
OC Register to Lay Off 30 Newsroom Employees
Just received word from an anonymous but reliable source that the Register is going to announce the elimination of 30 newsroom positions tomorrow. The paper is hoping to avoid direct layoffs by getting volunteers. Stay tuned for updates on who jumps the ship(wreck).* *Update #1: Apparently, Freedo ... More >>
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January 2, 2003
2002: Diary of a Mad Year
Just received word from an anonymous but reliable source that the Register is going to announce the elimination of 30 newsroom positions tomorrow. The paper is hoping to avoid direct layoffs by getting volunteers. Stay tuned for updates on who jumps the ship(wreck).* *Update #1: Apparently, Freedo ... More >>
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November 24, 2008
Orange County Register Settles Suit Brought By Carriers for $42M
UPDATED WITH REGISTER'S TAKE ON THE SETTLEMENT:The Orange County Register agreed today to shell out $42 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by newspaper carriers that was hailed as "the first of its kind in the United States" by the delivery workers' Santa Ana-based law firm. Daniel J. Callaha ... More >>
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March 20, 2009
OC Register Parent Company Announces Company-Wide Furloughs
In the vein of Spencer's post about Register interns, I've got some confessions of my own: a certain person on this blog may have, at one point, worked as an intern for one of the Orange County Register's sister papers, the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Arizona. In fact, said Albert-esque person may ... More >>
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March 30, 2009
Insiders Take Potshots at Freedom Communications
Author, sociologist and working-class advocate Barbara Ehrenreich recently spoke about being confronted by a foe who accused her of engaging in class warfare, to which Ehrenreich responded that's absolutely true but her side in not the one that started the war.Who knew class-warfare skirmishes could ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
Battle Between Register Execs and Peons Takes a Spanish Turn
Clockwork feels obliged to point out the latest comments left on our recent blog posts about the continuing turmoil within the Grand Avenue headquarters of the Orange County Register.HorneTo recap, it all started with our March 9 "Publisher to Register Employees: Let Them Eat Hawaiian Bread," which ... More >>
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September 25, 2003
Represent What?
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March 13, 2003
We Must Be Butter Cause Were on a Roll
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January 30, 2003
Pop Your Go Pills, Then Read
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August 22, 2002
R.C. Hoiles Speaks From the Grave
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August 15, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
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August 26, 1999
You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, We'll Sue
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April 29, 2009
Navel Gazing: The Avis of Journalistic Blogs in the West
Dear readers, prepare to withstand some navel gazing about Navel Gazing, the OC Weekly staff news blog: It has won second-place honors from Best of the West, which was founded in 1987 to promote freedom of information and reward journalistic excellence, mainly through its contest for newspapers and ... More >>
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May 4, 2009
An Even More Dramatic Look at Register's Circulation Free Fall
Data released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations at the end April was sad but unsurprising: over the previous six months, circulation at the Orange County Register of Santa Ana fell 7.9 percent to 230,877 for Monday through Friday editions and 3.7 percent to 300,273 on Sundays. But a Bay Area press ... More >>
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May 5, 2009
Register Marketing Ploy: Insert Head in Sand
Michael Volpe's Media & Marketing column in the current Orange County Business Journal--which I'd link you to but it's a pay site and I'm not that kind of girl--reports that the Orange County Register is launching promotions aimed at countering all the bad news about newspapers, which includes W ... More >>
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May 12, 2009
Will Freedom Take Playboy Down With Register?
There is one thing we can take solace in here at the Weekly: post something online about infighting at the Orange County Register and its Freedom Communications parent and it's sure to generate comments--from those doing the infighting. Our Publisher to Register Employees: Let Them Eat Hawaiian Brea ... More >>
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May 29, 2009
The Register To Start Charging For Online Content?
This could be nothing, but the media-watching folks at The Atlantic and Gawker seem to think it very well could be something big. The executives of the nation's top newspaper companies -- Register-owning, Irvine-based Freedom Communications among them -- met yesterday in Chicago to talk about the fu ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
OC Register Says Advertisers, Clients Screwed Them Out of $350,000
Lawyers for the Orange County Register have filed nine lawsuits in the last nine months--including two in recent days--seeking more than $350,000 in outstanding debt from advertisers, commercial printing clients and at least one distributor of OC's largest daily newspaper.According to Superior Court ... More >>
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June 16, 2009
Called It! [Again] on Register/Freedom CEO Musical Chairs
Burl OsborneA Register Orange County Business News blog post that went up last night crows that it learned from "four inside sources" Monday that Burl Osborne will be named chief executive officer of the paper's parent company Freedom Communications Inc. of Irvine when the board meets later this wee ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
Jacko and Freedom CEO Flanders: Just Beat It
Not sure which stage of grief this falls under, but as the initial reports of Michael Jackson's death were coming out, what are assumed to be Orange County Register and/or Freedom Communications insiders were linking the King of Pop's departure from Earth with Freedom CEO Scott Flanders' departure f ... More >>
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June 30, 2009
Source: 5% Across the Board Pay Cut for All Register Employees [UPDATED]
UPDATED WITH CONFIRMATION, DETAILS FROM REGISTER REPORT...It will be was announced today that all Orange County Register employees will be subjected to a 5 percent pay cut, an insider tells the Weekly. effective July 13.This comes on top of mandatory employee furloughs--or unpaid, one-week vacations ... More >>
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July 6, 2009
Bigger PR Nightmare: Henry Nicholas III or OC Register?
FishBowlLA.com connects the dots today between indicted Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas III, the Orange County Register's parent company and the "PR guy" for both of them: Sitrick & Co. does PR for Freedom Communications, Inc.Mike Sitrick is also the PR guy for Dr. Henry Nicholas III, the for ... More >>
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July 14, 2009
Texas Freedom Paper's Paid Online Content a Sign of What's to Come to the Orange County Register?
Valley Morning Star of Harlingen, Texas, announced today on Saturday it "has been selected to be the first newspaper" in the Irvine-based Freedom Communications' chain that is flagshipped by the Orange County Register "to use its online edition to boost readers' subscription values."Translation: Val ... More >>
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September 1, 2009
Freedom Communications/OC Register Woes: Financial or Political? [UPDATED WITH BANKRUPTCY CONFIRMATION]
With the Orange County Register's parent company Freedom Communications of Irvine confirming it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (something deemed inevitable in Nick Schou's Navel Gazing item yesterday), one would assume this to be a financial matter. But according to several reader ... More >>
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October 4, 2009
Taco Bell Crime of the Week!
I'd love to link to this week's edition--a break-in at a Taco Bell in Celina, Ohio, wherever the hell that is--but the newspaper that reported the story has a pay wall prohibiting non-subscribers from reading stories on its website. Strangest part? Its publisher is Freedom Communications, parent com ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
Porn Proudly Enters Register Coverage of Freedom Bankruptcy
Perhaps this art photo by Nick Gaines is an example of the porn the newspaper company is trying to hide.Orange County Register business writer Mary Ann Milbourn boldly got out front of the story about her corporate overlords at Irvine-based Freedom Communications being accused of trying to keep d ... More >>
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November 2, 2009
OC Register Overlord Freedom Communications Kills a Paper
Officials from Irvine-based Freedom Communications, whose flagship newspaper is the Orange County Register, told employees of Arizona's East Valley Tribune newspapers that they will cease operations on Dec. 31.Freedom's official announcement is contained in this company news release. It's also ba ... More >>
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November 27, 2009
Reports of Freedom Paper's Death May Have Been Premature
Perhaps a daily newspaper the Orange County Register's corporate parent planned to kill will rise from the ashes.The Arizona daily does circulate just outside Phoenix, after all.
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April 30, 2010
Under New Management! OC Register No Longer a Family Affair
It came not with a bang but a whimper. At around noon today, the Orange County Register officially announced that four score minus five years of ownership by the fracturing Hoiles family is now no more. Parent company Freedom Communications will continue to have a stake in the paper but not wi ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Dreaming of the Parts of Freedom CEO Mitch Stern's Interview That Weren't Print to Fit
Now that he's unloaded the U-Haul and settled into his new office in Irvine, Freedom Communications CEO Mitch Stern sat down for an interview with a reporter from his media company's flagship newspaper, the Orange County Register.This is important to Grand Avenue wags as Freedom emerges from banr ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
Thank Register Investor for Killing $184 Million Brightwater Bolsa Chica Bailout?
If the death of a $184 million bailout ultimately kills the developer of homes above the ecologically sensitive Bolsa Chica wetlands, preservationists may have karma, an ancient Indian curse or an Orange County Register investor to thank.Or all three.
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November 18, 2010
Orange County Register Owner Freedom Communications' Papers, TV Stations for Sale
Update, November 18, 5:20 p.m.: A media industry watcher suggests Freedom Communications may have a strategy behind what would seem to be a counter-intuitive move to sell the modern-day equivalent of buggy whips, daily newspapers."Might the strategy be to sell some of the properties, keep othe ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
New Rumors of a Merger Between Freedom and MediaNews
Yesterday, Dean Singleton, the controversial chairman and CEO of MediaNews Group, which owns dozens of newspapers including the Denver Post and LA Daily News, announced he was stepping down from his longtime post. Now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting, two new members of the board of director ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Owners of Los Angeles Times and Other SoCal Papers Expected to Bid on The Orange County Register
Like vultures hovering over roadkill, media companies and private-equity firms are expected to pick at what remains of Irvine's Freedom Communications--parent company of The Orange County Register of Santa Ana--at auction Thursday.Among those likely placing bids will be Chicago-based Tribune, whi ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Register Sale Could Lead to One Company Owning All SoCal Dailies: Media Expert
A newspaper journalist-turned-Silicon Valley media mogul sets up the dominoes which, once tipped over, could lead "a single entity" to "publish all the dailies from the Tehachapi Mountains at the north end of metro L.A. to the Mexican border."At the middle of it all is the pending sale of the Ora ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
[UPDATED with Tribune Talks Back On:] Sale Could Lead to One Company Owning All SoCal Dailies
UPDATE, JUNE 16, 9:22 A.M.: Now that merger talks with MediaNews have broken down, Irvine-based owner of the Orange County Register Freedom Communications has revived negotiations with that other Southern California newspaper publisher.No, not the Los Angeles investment company that bought ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Extreme Pick-Up Rate Roils Orange County Register
Reality television has been blamed for a coarsening of society, the death of (well) scripted programming and my reason for being.It's also playing a role in the disappearance of the Orange County Register. No, this is not another post about the financial woes of Freedom Communications, the Regist ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Jose Solorio and Tony Mendoza, Assembly Democrats, Blasted for "Anti-Business" Bills
SolorioA proposed law authored by one Orange County assemblyman is being called a big favor for big labor, while legislation from another has powerful California business interests lined up against it.The legislators are Democrats and California Latino Legislative Caucus leaders Jose Solorio of S ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Orange County Register Business Coverage Hits TheStreet
It's Business Monday at the Orange County Register, but you've got wonder if the section's editors, reporters and columnists are looking over their shoulders following a recent business decision by the Santa Ana daily.Freedom Communications, the Irvine company that owns the Register and mo ... More >>
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