On Monday, Chris Anderson who was the Former publisher of Orange County Register was declared the publisher of the Portland newspaper- The Oregonian. Anderson had left the Orange County Register in the year 2007. Eastern Oregon was the place where Anderson had grown up and he used to deliver The Oregonian when he was a boy. Anderson expressed his desire to make The Oregonian more important and the most sought after newspaper in the future on the newspaper’s website.

From an editor of the Register in the year 1980, Anderson became the publisher in the year 1999 of the county’s largest daily newspaper. Two years back, Anderson was superseded by, Terry Horne, who is presently the publisher of the Register. Anderson had worked a lot upon bringing in changes for the readers. Anderson has been working as a consultant for Stacey Nicholas who is the ex-wife of Broadcom Corp.’s cofounder Henry Nicholas and R.J. Brandes in those two years.

At the University of Arizona, Anderson used to visit as a professor of journalism as well. The Oregonian too is facing numerous hardships like reduction in the number of readers and other similar challenges that were faced by the Register. As per the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the distribution of the newspaper showed a reduction of 12% from the previous year in September and as per the Register it was down 10% in September. The reason is that Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc. which is the owner of the Register is trying to undergo bankruptcy reorganization.

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