USA TODAY Column: …[Aaron Kushner, the free-spending, print-loving owner of the Orange County Register] says he thinks the Register will offer an alternative that will appeal to a substantial number of Angelenos and advertisers. While he offers that the L.A. Times is “a very good national newspaper,” he says the Register’s focus will be unremittingly local. And he believes his paper’s “right-of-center, pro-business” editorial stance will attract readers looking for a point of view more conservative than the Times’.
Kushner says his new baby will be “robust”: 50 to 60 pages during the week and 80 to 90 on Sunday. The Register is opening four new bureaus, downtown and in the San Fernando Valley, Hermosa Beach and Pasadena. The Register also has that presence in Long Beach, which happens to be in Los Angeles County…
Pressed, he says there will be “over 50” journalists who just cover Los Angeles politics and business. While the Times, whose parent Tribune Co. has gone through bankruptcy, has suffered steep staff cuts, it still has far more reporting firepower… (more)
