Posts Tagged ‘Orange County Register’

The Los Angeles News Group has decided to relocate the printing operations of the San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and Redlands Daily Facts to the printing presses of the Orange County Register.

In addition, the San Bernardino news desk will leave the printing facilities and move to “the heart of the city.”

(Nothing says the heart of a city like downtown San Bernardino.)

The exact location is to be determined and the new offices are expected to open in the fall.

Neil Saavedra, KFI’s (640 AM) marketing director and producer of “The Jesus Christ Show,” will host a new food show starting on Jan. 7 titled “The Fork Report.”

The show, from 2-4 p.m., will focus on local restaurants, kitchen gadgets, recalls, new products, and interviews with chefs, according to Gary Lycan of the Orange County Register.

“People who love food will love this show and people who don’t love food, well, who cares what they think,” Saavedra told Lycan.

Foodies now have a second show to listen to on Saturdays after KCRW’s “Good Food,” hosted by Evan Kleiman at 11 a.m.

Best of luck to Saavedra in his new gig.

Politico staffer Kendra Marr was forced to resign after seven instances of plagiarism were discovered in her recent work. Marr was outed after a New York Times writer alerted Politico editor-in-chief John Harris to similarities between his/her recent transportation story and Marr’s Politico followup. Harris launched an investigation an subsequently discovered six other instances of reporting and phrasing that was lifted from other stories without attribution. There were no manufactured quotes or invented scenes in Marr’s work, but the offenses were serious enough to force her resignation.

Marr is a California native who previously wrote and worked as a copy editor an intern for the Orange County Register and wrote for the San Jose Mercury News.

Betsy Rothstein at our sister site FishbowlDC got a hold of the Politico editorial honchos’ memo to staff, after the jump.

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Mt. San Antonio College professor Tammy Trujillo and student Alan Bailey are trying to fill the radio news void left after LARadio.com came to an end following a 15-year run.

The two started Southern California Radio People, a Facebook group dedicated to providing local radio news.

“I have encouraged my students to look at the real world, and that in radio would be LARadio.com,” Trujillo told Gary Lycan of the Orange County Register. “When Don Barrett announced he was ending it, I talked to my students and one of my superstars, Alan, who is also program director at 90.1 FM Mt. Rock and www.audio8ball.com. I threw him the challenge to start Southern California Radio People.”

The 22-year-old Bailey took up Trujillo’s challenge. “It’s a void not having LARadio.com,” Bailey told Lycan. “But a lot of my generation has Facebook pages. People need to understand it is a hellacious tool for marketing.”

For all of you radio fans, head over to Southern California Radio People and give them a like.

The OC Weekly has long had the kind of relationship with the Orange County Register that you’d expect an irreverent weekly to have with the “establishment”paper in its coverage area. But something just awful has happened in the past few years: OCR has been sucking so profoundly, the weekly’s jokes stopped being … well, jokes.

To wit: OC Weekly began publishing a “Death Watch” for the paper of record, which would be a cute idea if the paper weren’t really, seriously dying. It’s the kind of feature that in another part of the country would be filled with sophomoric jokes about the decline in the newsroom staff’s pulchritude. Instead, it’s breaking news about content-sharing deals with Singleton.

Well, when the Reg finally does give up the ghost, at least OC readers will have the Weekly.

Update:

A Tipster tells us “That dude at the weekly isn’t breaking news, he’s printing conjecture about which he doesn’t really know all the facts. not that knowing all the facts is ever a reason for an alternative weekly or a blog not to run with a story, of course….”

Meow.

In the aftermath of the latest round of Orange County Register buyouts and layoffs, Greg Magnus, a former videographer was kind enough to answer our question, “What the fuck?”

His response? Magnus had gotten “no warning, no real notice” before he was laid off on Monday, and he had been “basically suckered into work on my day off to be let go.”

His full account follows:

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From Romenesko via LA Observed: AP’s LA Assistant Bureau Chief Frank Baker tells his staff that “Now and for the foreseeable future, virtually everything involving Britney is a big deal.”

He tries to qualify it, saying “that doesn’t mean every rumor makes it on the wire. But it does mean that we want to pay attention to what others are reporting and seek to confirm those stories that WE feel warrant the wire. And when we determine that we’ll write something, we must expedite it.”

We hear the memo went on to tell reporters to be glad they weren’t on the ever-dwindling staff of the Orange County Register, remind them to fill their sacks with heavy resolve and just keep moving.

The Orange County Register is shedding yet another body: Blythe “Never Say No” Bernhard is leaving the paper on Thursday for the wilds of St. Louis, where she’ll do breaking news, enterprise and watchdog stories as the Post-Dispatch medical writer.

“I am really excited and nervous. I’ve never worked at another paper, so I need the experience and the challenge,” Bernhard tells FBLA. “I’ve also never experienced a real winter, so we’ll see how that goes!”

Bernhard’s facile mind and strong reporting skills served her well at the Reg, where she leaped from Anaheim buro intern in 2003 to medical reporter (and this fishie’s replacement) in 2005. Along the way, she picked up a number of distinctions, not the least of which was being called out for her “easy smile” by the OC Weekly.

Good luck in St. Louis, Blythe. And congratulations!