Reporter May Have Hastened Freedom Communications Bankruptcy Announcement
Saturday, OC Weekly editor Gustavo Arellano started asking questions. Sunday, Freedom answered.
These are dark Daily Print Newspaper Saving days in Southern California.
On Friday, Poynter chief media correspondent James Warren reported that 15 percent of Los Angeles Times newsroom employees have applied for the latest round of buyouts, a process with a deadline of Oct. 23. Today, Freedom Communications Inc., the parent company of the Orange County Register, The Press-Enterprise and other regional California newspapers and magazines, has announced it has filed for bankruptcy.
All the details are in the press release and accompanying note by Freedom CEO Rich Mirman, including assurances that the filing will have “minimal impact” on the Register’s day-to-day operations and the promise that Freedom will be profitable in 2015.
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