What Edition Orange County Register

Daily paper in Orange County, California

Orange Canton Annals
The January 1, 2013, front end folio of the Register
Type	Daily paper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(due south)	Digital Showtime Media
Publisher	Ron Hasse^[ane]
Editor	Frank Pine^[two]
Founded	1905; 117 years ago (1905) (as Santa Ana Daily Annals)
Language	English
Headquarters	1925 Main Street, Suite 225 Irvine, California 92614
Circulation	eighty,000 daily; 180,000 Sunday
ISSN	0886-4934
OCLC number	12199155
Website	ocregister.com

The Orangish County Register logo in 2007

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

History [edit]

The Annals was founded by a consortium every bit the Santa Ana Daily Annals in 1905. Information technology 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 Annals. Subsequently the Japanese assail on Pearl Harbor, Hoiles was i of the few paper publishers in the country to oppose the forced relocation of Japanese and Japanese Americans to camps abroad from the West Coast.^[3] Hoiles reorganized his holdings equally Freedom Newspapers, Inc. In 1950, the name was changed to Freedom Communications. The paper dropped "Santa Ana" from its title in 1952.

In 1956, the paper was a prominent supporter of a vociferous entrada by anti-communists against the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act, claiming that it was part of a Communist plot to constitute concentration camps in Alaska. Circulation rose with the burgeoning population of Orange Canton and after the Register added a morn edition in 1959.

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

1980s [edit]

Faced with an aggressive push into the county by the Los Angeles Times under then-publisher Otis Chandler, Threshie brought in thirty-twelvemonth-old North. Christian Anderson III as editor. Political positions were restricted to the editorial folio. In 1981, the paper began publishing in total color.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In 1985, the paper assumed the name The Orange County Annals. In the same year it won its first Pulitzer Prize, for its photographic coverage of the 1984 Summertime Olympics in Los Angeles. It won additional Pulitzers in 1989 for shell reporting by Edward Humes on U.S. armed services problems with dark-vision goggles and in 1996 for an investigation into Ricardo Asch's fertility clinics.^[4]

1990s [edit]

In 1990, the newspaper launched the 24-60 minutes OCN news channel with news and characteristic stories about Orangish Canton. It closed in 2001.^[5]

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

In 1999, Threshie became chairman of the board of Freedom Communications, and N. Christian Anderson Iii assumed the position of publisher and chief executive officeholder.

2000s [edit]

Ken Brusic was named vice president of content and executive editor in April 2002.^[7] In 2003, a family schism led to a sale on Oct. ninth of a majority interest in Freedom Communications to investors led past the Blackstone Group and Providence Equity Partners. Through a stock organization, the Hoiles family descendants retained control of the lath.

In 2006, Orange County Annals Communications launched the OC Mail service, a tabloid with shortened versions of Register stories too equally news articles from the Associated Press. The paper also had its first pregnant staff reductions in December 2006, with 40 newsroom employees taking buyouts, along with a minor number of layoffs.

Past April 2007, The Orangish Canton Register had made boosted staff cuts to help maintain shareholder profit, which had averaged more than than 20 percent annually in the preceding five years. Since the launch of the OC Post in 2006, OCRC^{[ clarification needed ]} has cut the Register's editorial staff by 10 percentage, eliminated its 3% holiday bonuses for editorial staff. and postponed pay raises to editorial staff, which had averaged 3 percent annually, for 6 months.^{[ citation needed ]} In September 2007, Terry Horne replaced N. Christian Anderson III as publisher.

In June 2008, KTLA, The Los Angeles Times and Fox News reported that the Register had begun a i-month trial of outsourcing some layout and copy-editing work to India to save costs.^[viii] The trial was not accounted a success, and since then editing has been done by the Register in Orange Canton. In spring of 2009, Freedom Communications instituted furloughs for all employees nationwide, followed by a permanent five% pay cut starting in July 2009. News reports in Baronial 2009 indicated that Freedom Communications planned to file for bankruptcy and turn control of its publications, including The Orangish County Register, over to its lenders.^[9]

In September 2009, a column written by sports columnist Mark Whicker caused controversy.^[10] In the column,^[11] Whicker wrote about various sporting events that had occurred over the preceding 18 years, and how they had been missed by Jaycee Dugard, a girl who had been kidnapped, raped, and forced to deport her kidnapper's children. Whicker ended his column with the line "Jaycee, you lot have left the yard." The cavalcade generated widespread criticism and was parodied in blogs such equally Deadspin,^[12] who called it "the single worst piece of journalism ever committed on this folio," and The Huffington Mail service.

2010s [edit]

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

A lawsuit was filed in October 2013 by the former owners of Freedom Communications against Aaron Kushner, principal of 2100 Trust, demanding that Kushner's company pay more than $17 million remaining on the sale. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Kushner, "a former 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 "$62.3 meg in unexpected fiscal liabilities as a consequence."^[fourteen] On August 19, 2013, the Long Beach Annals was launched equally an edition of the Orange County Annals serving the Long Beach, California, customs. Information technology was focused solely on community news, including city government, public and individual education, local sports coverage, business and entertainment equally an intended competitor to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. In addition, on January 20, 2014, The Press-Enterprise became an edition of the Orange County Register while maintaining coverage of the Inland Empire.^[16]

On Apr xvi, 2014, the Orange Canton Register launched the Los Angeles Register, "more than a impress play than a digital 1" serving Los Angeles County. It was the commencement time since the Herald-Examiner folded on Nov ane, 1989, that a master competitor to the Los Angeles Times was launched, this time intended to be "as local as one edition can be for the unabridged county."^[17] Five months later, Kushner appear in a company memo that the Los Angeles Register was catastrophe publication constructive immediately. Kushner wrote that "pundits and local competitors" will be quick to call the effort a failure while he believes that "not taking bold steps toward growth" would accept been the true failure.^[18] The Long Beach Register became a Dominicus-only publication in June 2014,^[xix] and ceased publication in December 2014.^[20] In Oct the Los Angeles Times sued the Annals for failing to pay more $ii one thousand thousand 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 $4.2 million writ of zipper 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 newspaper and Liberty Communications Inc. The company was rumored to be readying itself for a potential sale. Publisher Rich Mirman, a former Las Vegas casino executive who had invested in Freedom, was announced equally the new president and chief executive.^[22]

On February 12, 2016, Freedom Communications announced that the Orange County Annals and the Press-Enterprise forth with its websites, community weeklies and the two Spanish-Linguistic communication weeklies Excelsior in Orangish County and La Prensa in the Inland Empire, were being placed in a "stalking equus caballus" auction later on the company declared bankrupt at the end of 2015. Both Digital Starting time Media and Tribune Publishing were the bidders. The sale started on March 21 and was completed on March 31, 2016. The U.Southward. Department of Justice blocked the sale of Freedom Communications to Tribune Publishing because it would create a newspaper monopoly in both Orangish and Riverside Counties..On March 21, 2016, Digital First Media acquired both the Orange Canton Register and the Press-Enterprise for $52.3 million in a U.Due south. Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana. Los Angeles News Group was renamed Southern California News Group on March 31, 2016, once the auction of Liberty Communications to Digital First Media was completed. It has 11 paid regional dailies, and customs weeklies serving the Southward Bay communities of Hermosa Beach, Redondo Embankment and Palos Verdes Peninsula, the Long Beach neighborhoods due north and e of downtown and over 20 community weeklies in Orange County, too every bit the Spanish-language weeklies Impacto USA and Unidos, at present consolidated every bit Excelsior, which will have three editions for Los Angeles County, Orange Canton and Inland Empire.^[23] On Sept. 21, 2016, it was announced that the Register would movement its headquarters to 2190 Towne Centre Place, Anaheim, and vacate its longtime habitation at 625 North. M Ave., Santa Ana.^[24] The new headquarters opened Apr 24, 2017.^[25]

The Brotherhood for Audited Media reported in 2017 that the Register'southward 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 generally supported free 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 newspaper in the land to accept opposed the Iraq War from the beginning and opposed laws regulating issues such every bit prostitution and drug use. Information technology was 1 of a handful of newspapers that opposed the internment of Japanese aliens and Japanese-Americans during World War Two.^[29] ^[30] It also opposed Proposition eight in 2008, which proposed to define the word "union" in the California Constitution to mean between a human and a woman definitively.^[31] After the Digital First purchase of Freedom Communications, the Annals 's editorial page was merged with that of the Los Angeles Daily News and Digital Offset'due south other papers in the region to form a single editorial board for the Southern California News Grouping on regional and national problems.^[32]

Other publications [edit]

In addition to publishing the Orange County Annals, Southern California News Group publishes OC Family mag, Coast mag, and the following affiliated weeklies:^[33]

Anaheim Bulletin of Anaheim^[34]
Coastal Current (Due north and Southward editions) of Newport Beach^[35] ^[36]
Due north Canton News Tribune of Fullerton^[34]
Irvine Globe News of Irvine^[36] ^[37] ^[38]
Laguna Forest Earth of Laguna Woods
Saddleback Valley News of Lake Woods/Mission Viejo^[34]
The Wave of Huntington Beach

Online content [edit]

On Apr 1, 2013, the Orange Canton Register began providing its online content through a metered paywall. Virtually online content required a subscription, with the exception of local weather, traffic, Associated Press or non-Annals manufactures, and a few select local news articles.^[39] Every bit of October 2015, the website does non have a paywall and online content is free.^{[ commendation needed ]} As of May 2018, the paywall has been reinstated.^[xl]

References [edit]

^ "Register names new publisher" Executive squad named for And then Cal News Group to lead the Orange County Register, April 2, 2016
^ "[1]" Executive Leadership, updated Apr 14, 2016
^ Register, Orange Canton (Nov 18, 2007). "In his own words: R.C. Hoiles on the WWII Japanese internment". Orange County Register . Retrieved September fifteen, 2019.
^ Graham, Harry Fifty., Stop the Damned Presses!, pp. 183–186, Words & Pictures Printing, Articulate-water, FL, 2005.
^ Moxley, R. Scott. "So Long, OCN", OC Weekly, Orangish Canton, 20 September 2001. Retrieved on 23 May 2015.
^ "Updated 'Excélsior' Statistics for 2010". Repeat Media.
^ "Executive Leadership". The Orange County Register. September 25, 2009. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
^ "OC Annals to Outsource Editing to India". Flim-flam News. June 25, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
^ Kouwe, Zachery (August 31, 2009). "Possessor of Orange County Annals May File for Defalcation". New York Times . Retrieved May 25, 2010.
^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (September 14, 2009). "Outrage Over Column on California Kidnapping". New York Times . Retrieved May 25, 2010.
^ Whicker, Mark (September 7, 2009). "Many odd things have happened in sports the past 18 years". The Orangish County Register. Archived from the original on June 25, 2011. Retrieved Baronial 6, 2011.
^ Tommy Craggs (September nine, 2009). "Mark Whicker Leaves The Thousand". Deadspin.com. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
^ Milbourn, Mary Ann (July 25, 2012). "Freedom Communications closes sale of the Register". Orange County Register (archive). Archived from the original on August 29, 2012. Retrieved April one, 2013.
^ ^a ^b Ken Bensinger, "O.C. Register Sellers Sue New Ower," Los Angeles Times, November 1, 2013, page 33
^ "Orange County Annals". Archived from the original on December 17, 2012. Retrieved March 31, 2014 (December 15 archive shows previous logo). {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^ "To Our Readers: Meet the New and Enhanced Press-Enterprise". The Press-Enterprise. Riverside, California. January xx, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
^ Doctor, Ken (April sixteen, 2014). "Six things to consider near the new Los Angeles Register". Nieman Lab. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
^ Khouri, Andrew (September 23, 2014). "Freedom Newspapers Ceases Publication of 50.A. Annals". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved September 23, 2014.
^ Lopez, Ricardo (June 3, 2014). "O.C. Register owner to cutting staff, merge Long Beach and Fifty.A. newspapers". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved June xv, 2014.
^ Pfeifer, Stuart; Khouri, Andrew (Dec 28, 2014). "Long Beach Register stops publishing". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved December 30, 2014.
^ Reynolds, Matt (March 17, 2015). "LA Times Wins $iv.2M Lien Against Register". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved Apr 9, 2015.
^ "O.C. Register owners quit: Aaron Kushner, Eric Spitz resign executive duties". Los Angeles Times. March 10, 2015. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
^ Pressberg, Matt (March 21, 2016). "Tribune Abandons Bid For OC Annals Post-obit DOJ Lawsuit, Paving Way For Digital Start Purchase". International Concern Times . Retrieved May 4, 2016.
^ "Orange County Register moving headquarters from Santa Ana to Anaheim in 2017 – Orange County Annals". September 21, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
^ "Contact Us". Orangish County Annals. March sixteen, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
^ Brandon Angel (May 7, 2018). "The OC Register will no longer cover Orange County small theater productions". Daily Titan . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
^ Lattman, Peter; Adams, Russell (Baronial 31, 2009). "Paper Owner Freedom Plans to File For Affiliate xi". The Wall Street Periodical. p. B1.
^ Jonathan Polakoff (January 13, 2014). "Paper Claims Right Focus for L.A." Los Angeles Business organization Periodical.
^ "R.C. Hoiles, Chief of Liberty Paper Chain, Dies at 91". Los Angeles Times. Oct 31, 1970. p. C1.
^ "Raymond C. Hoiles, 91, Is Expressionless". New York Times. Oct 31, 1970. p. 32.
^ "Suggestion 8". 2022. Retrieved May eleven, 2022.
^ "Brian Calle expands oversight of stance and commentary coverage". Orange County Register. April 14, 2016.
^ Annals, Orange County. "Advertising and Marketing Services | Brands". OC Register . Retrieved May thirty, 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Archives". Los Angeles Times.
^ "OC Annals Ramps Up Newport Beach, Costa Mesa Coverage".
^ ^a ^b DiMartino, Mediha (May 30, 2014). "Sources Say Liberty to Furlough Staff, Trim Long Embankment to Weekly Schedule". Orange Canton Business Journal . Retrieved June 15, 2014.
^ Register Parent Buys 3 Weekly Newspapers
^ "Irvine Globe News officially becomes daily paper". July 22, 2013.
^ Register to launch online paywall (Subscription required) Retrieved Apr 1, 2013
^ OC Register to charge for unlimited access to digital news to help support local journalism Retrieved July 18, 2018