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November 16, 2007
Chuck Smith Heralded as Jesus in Backwards California County
Tehama County, California, is one of the Golden State's more-backward counties, with a population of about 60,000 and a local economy predicated on tourism and...uh, not much else. The main newspaper in town, the Red Bluff Daily News, is a Dean Singleton-owned rag, and thus we can't expect much of i ... More >>
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February 20, 2008
OC Register Death Watch Part Two
Last week, I reported that the Orange County Register is in secret talks with Dean Singleton, owner of the Denver-based MediaNews Inc. and an all-around Darth Vader of daily news--he bought and all but killed the Long Beach Press Telegram, just as one example--to share content and lay off writers. I ... More >>
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February 26, 2008
OC Register Death Watch Part Three
It's been just over a week since I wrote that the Orange County Register is in content-sharing talks with Dean Singleton's MediaNews Inc. and a week since Register publisher Terry Horne told one of his own reporters about his vision for saving the paper, including the formation of "a consortium with ... More >>
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February 27, 2008
More newsroom cuts! Who is it this time?
LA Daily News staff are bracing for a possible shakeup after, as media blog LA Observed reports, employee representatives have sent memos saying a meeting this very afternoon could produce some very bad news. We expect there will probably be a staff meeting called Wednesday afternoon and that they ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2008
Devil Dean Calls Obama "Bin Laden"
Most people know Dean Singleton as the owner of the Denver-based MediaNews, Inc., a man who loves to buy newspapers like the L.A. Daily News and Long Beach Press-Telegram so that he can slash salaries, bust unions, earn huge profits, and generally quicken the destruction of print journalism. (His ef ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2008
OC Register Laying off Five Percent of Workforce
It's never fun being right about this kind of thing, but apparently the OC Register is laying off 80 to 90 employees, according to a post today on the newspaper's website. Here's about half of the post (it's really short): "... [Publisher Terry] Horne cited Orange County’s sluggish economy, es ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2008
Dumbest Register Story Ever?
According to folks we know who work there--see our OC Register Death Watch archive for all the depressing details--morale has never been lower at the Orange County Register. Last weekend, I bumped into one prominent Reg writer who told me it takes all his strength to even show up at work for fear of ... More >>
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August 22, 2008
What's Red and Blue and Drops Balloons All Over?
Sniff. Sniff. Ecch. You smell something? What the... OK, who let all those elephants and donkeys in here? Yes, a fun temporary feature tracking the movements of America's favorite symbolic political herbivores now lurks in the lower-right-hand area of our home page: Two blogs from our Village Voice ... More >>
News
March 20, 2008
The Content-Sharing Deal Between the OC Register and MediaNews Hasn't Led to Cuts at the Reg (Yet)
Sniff. Sniff. Ecch. You smell something? What the... OK, who let all those elephants and donkeys in here? Yes, a fun temporary feature tracking the movements of America's favorite symbolic political herbivores now lurks in the lower-right-hand area of our home page: Two blogs from our Village Voice ... More >>
Columns
February 28, 2008
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Sniff. Sniff. Ecch. You smell something? What the... OK, who let all those elephants and donkeys in here? Yes, a fun temporary feature tracking the movements of America's favorite symbolic political herbivores now lurks in the lower-right-hand area of our home page: Two blogs from our Village Voice ... More >>
News
February 14, 2008
The Register in talks with MediaNews about sharing content
Sniff. Sniff. Ecch. You smell something? What the... OK, who let all those elephants and donkeys in here? Yes, a fun temporary feature tracking the movements of America's favorite symbolic political herbivores now lurks in the lower-right-hand area of our home page: Two blogs from our Village Voice ... More >>
Columns
February 1, 2007
See You, Suckers!
This time, she means it
Features
December 28, 2006
Diary of a Mad Year
Jan. 1-Dec. 13
Columns
December 7, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
Nov. 29 - Dec. 5
News
November 6, 2003
Safe For Now
Register eludes slash-and-burner Singleton
News
October 22, 2009
Has the Decline of the Register Created Space for Nonprofit Site the Voice of OC to Put Down Roots?
Register eludes slash-and-burner Singleton
Blogs
January 19, 2010
Yet Another Newspaper Chain To Go Bankrupt
Who's Next?The rest of the economy might be slowly recovering from the great global economic cataclysm, but the death march of daily print journalism continues. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal---one of the few daily papers that successfully managed the rise of the Internet--reported that Dean ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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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