Best story of the morning goes to John Gittelsohn at the Register for his report on the weekend Strawberry Festival activities of Mark Dornan.
To best appreciate this tale you have to know Mark. The son of legendary Republican congressman Bob Dornan, a onetime congressional candidate himself, onetime Susan Kang (Schroeder) BF and present day OC school teacher, Mark is, well, not shy. If you're in a fight, you want this energetic guy on your side. I've witnessed him put the fear of God in usual
This just in: C.P. Smith, an OC Reg A1 editor ( who is reportedly on his way out via buyout) got behind Register reporter John Gittelsohn as he was taped for a KOCE broadcast - and purposefully picked his nose for all to see.
This ticked off news director Michael Taylor, who issued a memo that somehow found its way to -gasp- LA Observed.
Read it after the cut.
In other Register news, the Times had a piece on the layoffs today.
Yesterday, the Orange County Press Club hosted a panel featuring the newest kids on the Orange County media block: Orange County Register publisher Terry Horne, KDOC-TV Channel 56 news director (and former Register reporter) Jeff Rowe, and our own editor Ted Kissell. Each gave their impressions of the Orange County market to an audience of about 50 at Memphis' Santa Ana location. But the real revelations came during the question-and-answer session, and it was courtesy of current and former Regis
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, Freedom Communications hatchet men are waving carrots before sticks, offering sweet retirement deals to senior-level management before going to lowly reporters. The best deal yet: a payout through the end o
The Register's John Gittelsohn blogs on Mathew Padilla's Mortgage Insider about House of Cards, a CNBC documentary that names Orange County as the birthplace of the sub-prime
loans that infected the world financial system. Gittelsohn notes that among the locals featured in the 90-minute program, which first airs Thursday, are Bill Dallas, founder of Ownit; Lou Pacific, a Mission Viejo
real estate consultant; Daniel Sadek, founder of Quick Loan Funding; and . . . drum roll, please . . . John Gitt
The Orange County Register's Norberto Santana Jr. drove his green jeep (loaded with boxes and boxes of files) out of his paper's Grand Avenue HQ parking lot for the last time minutes ago. The veteran investigative journalist tells me that he's decided to leave the Register after a five-year-stint that included dozens of impressive scoops. "I'm leaving on a good footing with them," said Santana, who began his 14 years ago as a Washington, D.C. correspondent with Congressional Quarterly. "It's a
These days it's rare to hear about a reporter leaving the newspaper where he or she has worked for more than a decade that isn't totally depressing. Which is it, this time, you might ask? Layoff? Buyout? Nope: John Gittelsohn, a business writer at the Register who has covered Southern California's real estate crisis better than anyone else, is quitting the OC Register to take a job in New York City with Bloomberg News.A Register memo from yesterday broke the news to Gittelsohn's colleagues. It f
