The Orange County Register
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The Orange County Register is a daily newspaper published in Santa Ana, California. It boasts a circulation of 295,000 daily and 340,000 on Sunday, mostly in Southern California. The Register is tied with The Sacramento Bee for third-largest newspaper in California (behind only the Los Angeles Times and the second-ranked San Francisco Chronicle). The Register is the flagship publication of Freedom Communications, Inc., which publishes 28 daily newspapers, 23 weekly newspapers, Coast and Orange County Home magazines, and several related Internet sites. It is remarkable for its generally conservative and libertarian editorial page.
Founded by 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. Finally, in 1935 it was bought by R.C. Hoiles, who renamed it the Santa Ana Register and reorganized his holdings as Freedom Newspapers, Inc. in 1950, later Freedom Communications. The paper was renamed The Register in 1952.
Circulation rose with the burgeoning population of Orange County and after The Register added a morning edition in 1959. In 1970 Hoiles' son Clarence became co-publisher with his brother Harry until 1979, when R. David Threshie, Clarence's son-in-law, was named to the position.
In 1981, the paper began publishing in full color.
In 1985, the paper was renamed yet again to The Orange County Register. In the same year it won its first Pulitzer Prize, for its photographic coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympics in nearby Los Angeles. It won additional Pulitzers in 1989 for military reporting and 1996 for an investigation into Ricardo Asch's fertility clinics.
In 1999, Threshie became Chairman of the Board for Freedom Communications and N. Christian Anderson III assumed the position of publisher and CEO. Ken Brusic is the executive editor.
In 2004, a family schism led to a sale of a majority interest in Freedom Communications to investors led by the Blackstone Group and Providence Equity Partners. Through a stock arrangement, the Hoiles family descendents retained control of the board.
External links
- [OCRegister.com] (The Orange County Register official site)
- [OCExcelsior.com] (Spanish-language sister publication)
- [Freedom Communications, Inc.]
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