Eric Spitz, co-owner and president of Freedom Communications, peruses one of the first copies of the Los Angeles Register. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
A Los Angeles Register newsrack in downtown Los Angeles. The Orange County Register launched the new newspaper in April. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
The Los Angeles Register, which launched in April as part Aaron Kushner’s bold bet on print newspapers, will cease publication, effective immediately. (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)
Orange County Register co-owner and publisher Aaron Kushner speaks about the newspaper’s expansion into Long Beach at the Rotary Club of Long Beach’s weekly meeting aboard the Queen Mary on Aug. 21, 2013. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Rotary members pick up copies of the Long Beach Register last year. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
The company also announced the sale of the Orange County Register headquarters in Santa Ana for $27 million to local developer Michael Harrah. The Register will lease back the building. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
After Kushner’s 2100 Trust bought Freedom in 2012, he moved to aggressively expand. Kushner beefed up staffing at the O.C. Register, launched the Long Beach Register last year and bought the Riverside Press-Enterprise for nearly $27.3 million in November. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
