Month: December 2013

The Orange County Register does really wonderful front pages for the holidays. Especially Christmas.

Here’s a look at this year’s OCR Christmas cover, as well as the covers for our sister newspapers in Southern California:

Here’s another look at that great shot, which was photographed by Leonard Ortiz and art directed by Karen Kelso.

The Riverside Press-Enterprise:

Irvine World News:

Long Beach Register:

The Current (Newport Beach and Costa Mesa):

Both The Current and Long Beach Register had great front pages yesterday (Dec. 24, 2013), and were both named to the Newseum’s Top Ten in the Nation for the day:

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Last year’s Christmas cover for the OC Register was pretty fantastic, as well. (It also was shot by Leonard Ortiz and art directed by Karen Kelso.)

From the Dec. 20, 2013, edition of the Orange County Register:

Our special Focus page, edited and produced by Charles Apple:

We have an amazing puzzle builder, David Steinberg, who helps us put together an exclusive crossword puzzle every week for the Register’s community/weekly newspapers. He did a special puzzle for the OC Register today.

(If you see this kid show up at a trivia contest, walk away. He will clobber you.)

And here’s a closer look at his puzzle from today’s paper:

Charles also did our awesome flag treatment for the front page. Here’s a closer look:

We talk about giving our readers daily gifts and little moments of serendipity. Delightful and delicious surprises. Yep, this is how we try to do those things at the Register.

(I’m not going to post the answers on here, at least not today. But if you really want to see the answers, email me at rcurley at ocregister dot com.)