According to a video posted on O.C. Metro's website today, Orange County Register publisher Terry Horne plans to retire on Sept. 30, after 35 years in the journalism business. Horne has been publisher since 2007 and his departure coincides with rumors that the newspaper, along with the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, might someday be folded into a mega-paper.
There's nothing immediately visible on the Register's website about Horne's looming departure, but you can watch a video of the Metro's scoop here. The clip provides no explanation for Horne's decision but quotes him talking nice about the O.C.
Says Horne, “Orange County is one of the most dynamic and vibrant communities in the country.”
Award-winning investigative journalist Nick Schou is Editor of OC Weekly. He is the author of Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb (Nation Books 2006), which provided the basis for the 2014 Focus Features release starring Jeremy Renner and the L.A. Times-bestseller Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s Quest to bring Peace, Love and Acid to the World, (Thomas Dunne 2009). He is also the author of The Weed Runners (2013) and Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood (2016).