Posted on 10/29/2008 3:31:35 PM PDT by abb
The Orange County Register will lay off about 110 employees by the end of the week, Register Publisher Terry Horne announced today.
The workers, who are being notified today and Thursday, will receive the company’s standard severance package of two weeks’ pay for every year of service, Horne said, according to an article on the newspaper's site.
Here is an excerpt from that article. *
Horne said the layoffs were part of an on-going effort to tailor the newspaper’s business model to a media environment that has been hard hit by a loss of employment, auto and real estate advertising; a drop in readership; a sour economy and increased competition from the Internet.
“This isn’t necessarily just to improve profitability, we have to become a different kind of company,” Horne said. “We will be more focused on Interactive and make more of an effort in the print business.”
Horne said he didn’t plan any immediate changes in the Register similar to those earlier in the year, when the company eliminated the stand-alone Marketplace section six days a week. The company, however, will continue to focus on news in Orange County that readers cannot get anywhere else, he said.
This is the Register’s fourth round of layoffs this year. The company also had layoffs in August 2007 and a voluntary severance program to cut staff in 2006. This latest layoff, which includes about 30 in the newsroom, will leave Orange County Register Communications with a staff of about 1,230, Horne said.
Horne said that while the company is facing challenging times, there are some areas of success. Online advertising, excluding employment, was up 69.3% over last year, he said. Revenues from direct mail were up 16%, Horne said. The Register is privately owned and does not release financial information.
Although the Audit Bureau of Circulation reported that the Register’s circulation declined to 236,270 daily (down 15%) and 298,410 (down 8.2%) in the year ended Sept. 30, Horne said most of it was a deliberate reduction in papers distributed to hotels, schools and other bulk delivery that is not valued by advertisers.
Home delivery, which is highly valued by advertisers, basically remained flat for the six months ended in September. Circulation on Thursday through Sunday, which are the biggest advertising days, rose 0.6%, Horne said.
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I haven't purchased it in over 11 years...now. But that was my perception then.
FWIW...the Daily Oklahoman is leaning left these days...IMO.
And I am about to quit buying it.
I get it every day starting to lean left also it has shrunk in size and page count in the last year. I am just about ready to only get it on Sunday
If you are talking about the D.O. what do you make of the K. Parker obsession lately....?
Even if the owner/publisher is conservative, the only hirelings available from j-school have been thoroughly indoctrinated by the faculty. The only solution is to put them all out of business and make the “profession” of journalism a non-paying prospect. They’ll finally go away then.
Media death spiral. Its a beautiful thing.
Picket LA Times Thurs 10-30-08 @ 10:00 AM
October 29, 2008 2:51:23 PM PDT · by RaginApache · 23 replies
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This is somewhat sad because, as Osage Orange suggests, the Register did not seem to tilt to the left.
Whatever, newspapers will make a come back after O shuts down the internet for reasons of national security.
Good.
Most papers, even the big one's do little investigative reporting. They rely on A.P., Reuters, Bloomberg, etc.. to fill the bulk of their paper.
And it's just redundant to say those agencies are marxist/socialist/communist/leftist entities.
IMO, the Daily Oklahoman and probably the O.C. Register has rotted from the top down.....They didn't use to be that way...but changes in upper control did them in.
“This is the Register’s fourth round of layoffs this year.”
Don’t give up. There’s still time for a fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth round of layoffs before the year is out!
Not valued by the hotels and schools either. Trees everywhere are glad to see the decline.
Well maybe so...if they are socialist/communist/leftist papers.
But not if they are critical of the Obama presidency. Obama and company have proven they will punish those that are critical of them.
People, papers, blogs, radio shows, t.v. stations.....
We've already seen this.
Sounds like all tricks and no treats this Halloween for these fish wrappers.
Freddie from Elm Street will be paying a visit.
About 5 years ago, I was in the OKC area, and I couldn’t believe how leaning left the DO had become.
My Grand Dad loved that newspaper in the 1940/50’s. He took the morning paper to work and came home to the afternoon paper and would read it with his afternoon iced tea or beer.
My mother cancelled her subscription shortly after that.
I quit this paper about 8 yrs ago after yrs with it. As the slimy liberals moved down to OC from LA co they bowed to their requests, ERGO I went good riddance.
Not totally, but it's noticeable.
I've written them...but they deny, deny, deny...LOL!!
I buy it...just about every day....but I've about had it here recently. And will probably wean myself........
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