Manuscripts

Newspaper Guild drive

Description: Flier/article from the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild about cutbacks and layoffs at the Times with handwritten notes refuting many of the claims; list of Guild represented newspapers; anti-union memo entitled "What the Guild Won't Tell You" originally stamped CONFIDENTIAL.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1993
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Surveys - Newspapers vs. TV

Manuscripts

2 items. Memo and attached copy of "Special Gallup Survey" of October 1970, on the topic of newspapers, television and radio in competition as sources of news for the general public. The survey is headed "Confidential Report to Editors."

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Editorial Legal Services

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Notable names and items include: Anthony Day ; William Niese ; Tom Johnson ; under cover memo dated 8/12/1988, 15-pp. speech transcript, "The case for mediation and the private mini-trial," delivered by William A. Stricklin ; under cover memo dated 7/19/1989, a "Privileged and confidential" report ; under cover memo dated 3/16/1988, a "Privileged and confidential" report ; under cover memo dated 7/1/1988, a "Privileged and confidential" report ; more.

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Subjects - Newsday

Manuscripts

4 items: booklet, "Newsday and New York Newsday...Moving toward the Future" (ca. 1989) ; memo from Diane McNulty to David Laventhol on how her office (Meida Relations) had been dealing with inquiries from the press about rumors of coming layoffs at Newsday, 1/8/1990 ; Management Bulletin from Dick Schlosberg on "changes effective February 19, 1990, plus cover sheet ; memo from Laura Morgan to Jeff Klein, 1/22/1990, on "Newsday faxing."

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Don Clark - Policy / Long term strategy

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items - memos, letters and reports on policy and long term strategies within LAT. Notable names and subjects include: Don Clark "Confidential" memo to Dick Schlosberg titled "Are we going down the wrong road in Orange County?" (10/27/1988) ; newspapers and mass marketing, packet dated 2/29/1988 ; 10-pp. essay by Don Clark to Tom Johnson, 12/15/1986, answering TJ's question, "What would you do about the paper if you were king?" ; more.

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John Birch Society - Newspaper Industry Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Subjects include: correspondence between Williams and other U.S. editors; memo (June 15, 1964) describing tactics of John Rousselot in dealing with anti-JBS members of a Monrovia audience; Robert Notson, Editor of The Oregonian, wrote to Williams, "Otis Chandler's statement (condemning JBS) was forthright and courageous....I thought I would not see the day when conservatives attacked the Times." The letters filed here show strong support for The Times stance.

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Orange Coast Daily Pilot

Manuscripts

7 items: letters and a report titled "Orange Coast Daily Pilot - Sunday Edition Study," 12/16/1971. Stamped "Confidential, Please." The letters are between Thomas Keevil, Editor Daily Pilot, and Nick B. Williams of LAT.

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