Would have posted this earlier but was on a tablet...
https://www.ocregister.com/2007/06/27/buscaglia-will-not-join-register-as-new-publisher/Buscaglia will not join Register as new publisher
Marti Buscaglia
By ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
June 27, 2007 at 3:00 am
Marti Buscaglia will not become the Orange County Register’s new publisher because she misrepresented her educational qualifications on her resume, said N. Christian Anderson, current publisher and president and chief executive of Freedom Orange County Information.
Buscaglia’s resume listed graduation from Lima University in Peru. She has been publisher of the Duluth News Tribune in Minnesota for five years. She was slated to join the Register on July 9.
Anderson said the company had received Buscaglia’s resume from executive recruiters when she was considered for other jobs within Freedom Communications Inc. the Irvine-based nationwide media chain that includes the Register. Anderson and Buscaglia declined today to say how the misrepresentation came to light.
“I take full responsibility for it,” Buscaglia said in a phone interview. “It’s one of those things you put on a resume when you are young and stupid and you can never take it back.”
Anderson said, “I regret the information came to light after we had announced Marti’s appointment (on June 6) that precludes our being able to move forward with this decision.
“Credibility is a hallmark of Freedom and our products,” he continued. “We agreed that this breach would make it impossible for her to fulfill her responsibilities.”
Anderson has been publisher of the Register for eight years and had hired Buscaglia for that role so that he could concentrate on interactive media, specialty publications and commercial printing services for Freedom Orange County Information, the umbrella division that includes the newspaper group. All are part of Freedom Communications.
Hiring a new publisher was intended to be part of a company-wide initiative to respond to the rapidly changing media environment as newspaper circulation declines and readers turn to the Internet and other sources for information.
Anderson will continue as Register publisher but “it would make sense for us to look for another publisher,” he said.
