Orange County Register announces layoffs

Editor & Publisher reports that the Orange County Register of Orange County, California will lay off about 110 people by Friday. This is the fourth round of layoffs for the paper in 2008.
The Register's daily circulation fell 15 percent in the year ending in September, one of the factors driving the need to cut staff. However, there is a silver lining:

[Publisher Terry] 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%

According to the article, Horne doesn't plan on instituting any significant changes to the paper, saying that it will continue to focus on local news that readers can't get elsewhere.

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