Topic Archive: Orange County
Steve Hymon isn't the only recent media type who has taken up blogging about ice hockey. Talking Ducks: A Ladies Hockey Salon is by Orange Coast Magazine managing editor Rose... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 21, 2009 12:10 AM
Pang is the Newport Beach financier accused by federal regulators of a massive fraud in which millions of dollars were re-directed for his personal use. He had been taken from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2009 5:09 PM
No surprise that the sordid tale of now-former OC assemblyman Michael Duvall has gone viral. Just a few minutes ago, a google search brought back thousands of hits. We've got... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2009 11:17 AM
The now-former OC assemblyman says on his Web site that the decision to resign was based on his "inappropriate story-telling" and should not be viewed as an admission that he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2009 10:11 AM
That's the obvious takeaway after Wednesday's resignation of OC Assemblyman Michael Duvall, who inadvertently boasted of his sexual conquests over an open microphone. From the LAT: As TV camera crews... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2009 6:29 AM
Response to Mark Whicker's tasteless sports column in the OC Register has been so brutal that he was forced to make a public apology on the newspaper's Web site The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2009 6:03 AM
According to his statement on his Web site, the OC assemblyman says "I have come to the conclusion that it would not be fair to my family, my constituents or... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 9, 2009 1:02 PM
In case you haven't heard (and the whole world will have heard in another few hours), Assemblyman Michael Duvall has a big mouth when it comes to his sexual trysts.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 9, 2009 9:35 AM
Register reporter Greg Hardesty got through to the aunt of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard and gets a bunch of exclusive details about the family reunion after 18 years.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 3, 2009 1:39 PM
The parent company of the Register in Orange County is expected to become the latest newspaper company to slide into chapter 11, the Wall Street Journal reports today. Freedom Communications,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 30, 2009 4:50 PM
This morning we noted a new reporter-turned-law student at UCLA. Now it's been pointed out that Frank Mickadeit, a columnist for the Register in Orange County, is also starting law... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 19, 2009 6:47 PM
The Times and Register have announced a deal in which L.A. Times delivery people will deliver both papers. The Register will thus become the Times' largest commercial delivery client. If... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2009 11:57 AM
Terranea, which opened last week on the old Marineland site in Rancho Palos Verdes, and the Resort at Pelican Hill near Newport Beach may be the last big resort compounds... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 18, 2009 11:09 PM
The job skills and responsibilities sought in a new county government reporter for the Register in Orange County could be a template for how out-of-work journalists should market themselves these... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2009 11:59 AM
The Orange County Register's communications manager is hosting a new blog to tell the rest of the story [aka the good news] about the paper and newspapers in general. Very... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 11, 2009 1:34 PM
The woman who claims her adoptive father was the Zodiac killer has also claimed her biological father was JFK. OC Weekly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 7, 2009 1:52 PM
Irvine's new law school — the one that was, then wasn't, and now is run by Erwin Chemerinsky — got a huge number of applicants for its first class and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 16, 2009 3:43 PM
In tomorrow's Daily Journal, staff writer Don DeBenedictis writes that Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas has been dismissing felony drug charges if defendants submit their DNA samples. Upset judges and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2009 8:43 PM
The team released a statement on the death of pitcher Nick Adenhart, and a statement from his family. Tonight's game was cancelled at the family's request. KPCC's Steve Julian talks... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2009 11:30 AM
The rookie started last night, then was among three people in a Mitsubishi who died when a red-light runner hit the car in Fullerton. Adenhart, who was 22, threw six... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2009 8:50 AM
Over two and a half decades, Steve Plesa was the Orange County Register's features editor, cities editor and special sections editor overseeing coverage for the Food, Travel and Home &... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 8, 2009 9:30 PM
Add the Register in Orange County to the list of local media imposing unpaid time off on their workers. Staffers were told today to take off five days between April... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2009 1:22 PM
Orange County Register staffers are being asked to let Marine Corps PIO's turn the tables a bit and do ride-alongs with the journalists. Here's the newsroom memo: From: Dennis Foley/OCR/FREEDOM... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2009 4:07 PM
Greetings from the new home of octomom Nadya Suleman, her babies and half the TV news crews in Southern California. "It's pandemonium out here," emails longtime reader Thomas Naccarato,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2009 8:54 PM
While Los Angeles readers will mostly have to just look elsewhere in the paper to find the news that used to appear in California, for those in Orange County this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 26, 2009 11:28 PM
Former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona was found guilty on one count of witness tampering and not guilty on five other charges that led to his departure from elected office.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 16, 2009 2:36 PM
Attorney Daniel Callahan announced that the Orange County Register has settled with his clients, 5,000 delivery carriers who filed a class-action suit five years ago over their employee status. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 24, 2008 12:41 PM
Oh no -- LAO Lite again? Not to worry, Kevin gets back tomorrow and things return to normal. Meanwhile, there's news: Of the three wildfires now burning in SoCal,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 17, 2008 6:22 AM
The worst of SoCal's many fires are in Orange County (above), where more than 150 homes have burned and 1,000 more are in harm's way. OC Register Lots of first-person... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 16, 2008 8:20 AM
Affected staffers are being told today and Thursday that they will be laid off, The Register's publisher Terry Horne announced today. They will get the company’s standard severance package of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 29, 2008 11:44 AM
Shirley Babashoff won eight medals swimming for the U.S. at the 1972 and '76 Olympics, but she and her legacy were victims of doping by her East German competition. When... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2008 10:59 PM
The Financial Times is reporting that Sam Zell's Tribune has been kicking the tires on the Orange County Register with an eye to "consolidate the Los Angeles newspaper market, as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 22, 2008 3:50 PM
KDOC, Orange County's only commercial TV station, has dropped its morning news show "Daybreak OC." From the Orange County Business Journal report: The move comes a year after KDOC launched... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 14, 2008 3:36 PM
Thirty positions to be eliminated at the Register tomorrow, the OC Weekly says.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2008 3:31 PM
After being told that his wife was leaving him for a younger man, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Robert McClain sexually tortured her and her lover for hours and left... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2008 2:59 PM
Of course Orange County judge David C. Velasquez was going to lose on his order barring the Register from reporting on a lawsuit against the paper by its news carriers.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2008 12:37 PM
Ex-LAT reporter and editor William Lobdell took some meaning from a recent perusal of the most-viewed stories at the Times and Register websites, concluding that the opinion pieces, crime briefs... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2008 9:40 AM
William Lobdell launched his new Orange County-centric blog with a list of the 42 things he knows after a career at the Los Angeles Times. Excerpts: 8 - The idea... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2008 1:10 AM
Alan Mittelstaedt, formerly an editor and L.A. Sniper columnist at CityBeat and LA Weekly (and blogging at the Weekly and at Witness LA), is joining the editing staff at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 28, 2008 1:59 PM
A New York Times style blog takes umbrage at a cover by Orange County's Coast magazine that sure borrows a lot from an earlier T Magazine cover in the NYT.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 9, 2008 10:47 AM
The July issue is a relaunch under Emmis ownership by new editor Martin Smith. Editor's note here. The issue's best of OC media section proclaims the Register's Frank Mickadeit as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 7, 2008 9:05 AM
The toll of yesterday's newsroom cuts at the Orange County Register includes the sports editor and travel editor, a deputy editor and a design editor, among others. OC Weekly gives... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 29, 2008 2:56 PM
Today's slash of 80-90 employees, or 5% of the staff, is the third round of layoffs in a year at the Register's parent. Declining advertising revenue is to blame, President... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 28, 2008 5:28 PM
Nick Schou* thinks so and posts some intriguing evidence from a Singleton paper up north — how about a joint Media News Staff byline that includes a Register reporter's name?... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 26, 2008 11:06 AM
Terry Horne writes on the Orange County paper's blog that he's sorry so many readers are unhappy with recent changes in format and coverage, but "The Register is under economic... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 5, 2008 8:10 AM
I'm trying to keep a holiday schedule today to work on some website improvements, but there's also newspaper news from the Register in Orange County. It's killing the stand-alone Business... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 21, 2008 11:43 AM
N. Christian Anderson yields the publisher portion of his title to Marti Buscaglia, publisher of the Duluth News Tribune. She formerly worked at the Long Beach Press-Telegram and at La... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2007 8:41 AM
Executive Editor Matt Coker isn't moving north to Long Beach — he's going another 400 miles further. His email to what remains of the OC Weekly staff follows: From: Matt... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 22, 2007 5:56 PM
We told you yesterday afternoon that Rebecca Schoenkopf became the third exit in a week from the OC Weekly, and said her farewell "Commie Girl" column would run today. Well... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 1, 2007 5:19 PM
The Orange County Register has found its replacement for Mark Katches, who announced in September that he was leaving his post as Senior Team Leader/Watchdog Journalism — and leaving the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 14, 2006 11:36 PM