To all associates:

When we came to the Register some 18 months ago, we made an explicit commitment that we
were going to take the challenges and opportunities head-on to put our newspaper on a
permanently profitable path of growth.

We are an institution dating back over 100 years, and in that time many talented journalists and
business people have played their roles in assuring the vitality of our newspapers and our
community.

Ken Brusic is certainly in the upper echelon of those people. Each of us have been touched by
Ken in our own ways, often and likely in ways that will stay with us for a long time. With full and
grateful hearts we thank Ken for his leadership, inspiration and dedication over two decades as he
concludes his tenure this week as our Editor.

We also want to thank and recognize the contributions of Rebecca Allen, Terry Moore and Brenda
Shoun who will be passing their leadership to a new team.

Congratulations to Rob Curley who will be our new Editor. Many of you already know and
appreciate the energy, intelligence and heart that Rob brings every day.

Congratulations to our new senior content management team reporting to Rob:

 Donna Wares will be our Managing Editor whose responsibilities will include overseeing
the LA Register;
 John Fabris will be our Deputy Editor/Operations; Steve Green will be our Assistant
Managing Editor/Local;
 Todd Harmonson will be our Assistant Managing Editor/Sports;
 Helayne Perry will be our Assistant Managing Editor/Design;
 Marcia Prouse will be our Assistant Managing Editor/Visuals;
 and Jeff S. Miller will be heading our Features team.

This is quite a team of leaders. They will give everything they have to fulfill the promise of what
the Register can be, leading one of the most talented newsrooms in the country.

As we finish our year, we take stock in all that we have accomplished. We evaluate what worked
well and what did not. And then we prepare for making 2014 a year of profitable growth. Today
we concluded a difficult but important restructuring of our OC Register content team that reflects
our assessment of what our content team looks like to tackle the next phase of our growth in
Orange County and LA County.

The 32 friends and colleagues leaving us have helped the Register navigate through some very
challenging times. We are grateful for their service.
We enter 2014 with real opportunities and real challenges. We have significant continued
opportunities in Orange County with growing subscription, local advertising and digital revenue
as we work to hone and improve how we produce a great newspaper and the quality of that
newspaper. We have significant new opportunities as we bring our brand of local, community
building newspapering to Los Angeles with the LA Register.

We will start the next leg of our growth with approximately 370 content team members covering
Orange County and LA County. This is up from 198 team members just eighteen months ago and
makes our newsroom one of the largest metro newsrooms in the country. Over the past 18
months we have added more journalists to our team than every other newspaper in the country
combined, and we have increased the breadth and depth of the value that we provide to our
subscribers at a breathtaking pace.

On behalf of everyone in our business and in our community, thank you for your understanding,
hard work and commitment. Let’s build on the foundation we’ve established to continue to grow
in 2014.

Sincerely,

Aaron Kushner Publisher