Roger Oglesby

Roger Oglesby has been promoted to the new position of president and chief executive of California Community News Corp., a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Co. California Community News publishes the Daily Pilot, Huntington Beach Independent, Orange Independent and Saddleback Valley Voice in Orange County. In Los Angeles County, CCN publishes the Glendale News Press, the Burbank Leader and the Foothill Leader.

Roger Oglesby, editor of the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., on Wednesday was named president of The Times Orange County edition, effective March 1. Oglesby, 49, also was appointed as a vice president of The Times. "This is kind of like coming home for me," said Oglesby. He previously lived in Orange County for 12 years, first as a lawyer for the firm of Kindel & Anderson and later as a Times Orange County assistant city editor.

Roger Oglesby, editor of the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., on Wednesday was named president of The Times' Orange County edition, effective March 1. Oglesby, 49, was also appointed a vice president of The Times. He will succeed Robert G. Magnuson, who was promoted in October to senior vice president of The Times overseeing all regional editions. Magnuson, 46, has been president of Times Orange County since June 1996.

Roger Oglesby has been promoted to the new position of president and chief executive of California Community News Corp., a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Co. California Community News publishes the Daily Pilot, Huntington Beach Independent, Orange Independent and Saddleback Valley Voice in Orange County. In Los Angeles County, CCN publishes the Glendale News Press, the Burbank Leader and the Foothill Leader.

Roger Oglesby has been named editor and vice president of the Morning Call, the Times Mirror Co. newspaper in Allentown, Pa. Oglesby, 46, was president and chief executive of California Community News, a Times Mirror subsidiary that publishes daily and weekly community newspapers in Los Angeles and Orange counties. In addition, he was assistant to Los Angeles Times Publisher and Chief Executive Richard T. Schlosberg III. Jeffrey S.

The publisher of the Orange County Register has sued six publishing companies alleging that they reprinted the Register's help-wanted advertisements without permission and then billed the advertisers themselves. The suit filed in Orange County Superior Court on Tuesday by Irvine-based Freedom Newspapers Inc. on behalf of the Register seeks $100,000 in general damages and $1 million in punitive damages. The action follows by three months a federal lawsuit filed by the U.S.

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Steven U. Lee, president of The Times' Inland Valley/San Gabriel Valley region, Friday was named president of the newspaper's Orange County edition. Lee, 37, a marketing expert who lives with his family in Irvine, oversaw The Times' creation and marketing in the past year of a section for readers in eastern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino and Riverside counties. He will continue to supervise those operations until a successor is found.

Los Angeles Times Publisher and Chief Executive Richard T. Schlosberg III on Wednesday announced a series of organizational changes aimed at strengthening the newspaper's operations. William R. Isinger, previously vice president of finance, was promoted to the new position of senior vice president for finance. Isinger, 46, will oversee the newspaper's administrative services and purchasing departments and continue to supervise its finance, accounting and information systems departments.

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