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Orange County Register

Orange County Register
Orange County Register, Jan. 01, 2013,jpg.jpg
The January 1, 2013, front page
of the Register
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Digital First Media
Publisher Ron Hasse
Editor Frank Pine
Founded 1905
Language English
Headquarters 625 North Grand Avenue
Santa Ana, California 92701
Circulation 250,724 Daily
311,982 Sunday
ISSN 0886-4934
OCLC number 12199155
Website ocregister.com

The Orange County Register is a paid daily newspaper published in California. The Register, published in Santa Ana, is owned by Digital First Media. Freedom Communications owned the newspaper from 1935 to 2016.

The Register was 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. In 1935 it was bought by Raymond C. Hoiles, who renamed it the Santa Ana Register and reorganized his holdings as Freedom Newspapers, Inc., in 1950, later Freedom Communications. The paper dropped "Santa Ana" from its title in 1952.

In 1956, the newspaper was a prominent supporter of a vociferous campaign by anti-communists against the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act, claiming that it was part of a Communist plot to establish concentration camps in Alaska.

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.

Faced with an aggressive push into the county by the Los Angeles Times under then-publisher Otis Chandler, Threshie brought in 30-year-old N. Christian Anderson III as editor. Political positions were restricted to the editorial page. In 1981, the paper began publishing in full color.

In 1985, the paper assumed the name The Orange County Register. In the same year it won its first Pulitzer Prize, for its photographic coverage of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. It won additional Pulitzers in 1989 for beat reporting by Edward Humes on U.S. military problems with night-vision goggles and in 1996 for an investigation into Ricardo Asch's fertility clinics.

In 1990, the newspaper launched the 24-hour OCN news channel with news and feature stories about Orange County. It closed in 2001.


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