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Departments - Circulation - Marketing Research Reports
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Departments - Marketing Research (1 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 23 items. Materials include: 7-pp. report, "Time line and description of past and current ethnic-related projects, The Los Angeles Times," (time line covers 1922 - 1988); 2 versions of 1-pp. "Marketing Research Report Summary"; 30-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research Department Employee Handbook," 4/1973; 2-pp. report, "The Many Faces of Marketing Research," (1973); 3-pp. memo/report, "Readership of Free Newspapers," 8/8/1962; 13-pp. report, "Profile of Readers," (Newspaper Audience Characteristics), 4/1964; 5-pp. "October 1965 TV Report"; 1/31/1950 LAT clipping, "Times-Mirror research work told to planners"; 13-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research" (history, leadership, organization, etc.), 1/1982; 26-pp. booklet, Los Angeles Media Facts, 1986"; 10-pp. segment of employee handbook on "Marketing Research Department," 4/1973; 11/1987 questionnaire to LAT readers regarding their opinion of LAT Magazine; booklet, 3/1977, "Dynamic / Diverse - Los Angeles and Orange County Market"; 13-pp. booklet, "1977 Report to Times Classified Advertisers"; (10/1976) 17-pp. "Los Angeles Recruitment Guide"; full-color cover, HOME (mag) - 13-pp., 10/1976; 10-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Los Angeles Times Net Paid Circulation," 1988; 2 copies, The Market and the Media, 1987; 10-pp. info packet, titled "1995 Gallup Los Angeles Media Study"; related marketing research materials. Binding removed. Split into two folders.
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Departments - Marketing Research (2 of 2)
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Approx. 23 items. Materials include: 7-pp. report, "Time line and description of past and current ethnic-related projects, The Los Angeles Times," (time line covers 1922 - 1988); 2 versions of 1-pp. "Marketing Research Report Summary"; 30-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research Department Employee Handbook," 4/1973; 2-pp. report, "The Many Faces of Marketing Research," (1973); 3-pp. memo/report, "Readership of Free Newspapers," 8/8/1962; 13-pp. report, "Profile of Readers," (Newspaper Audience Characteristics), 4/1964; 5-pp. "October 1965 TV Report"; 1/31/1950 LAT clipping, "Times-Mirror research work told to planners"; 13-pp. Los Angeles Times Marketing Research" (history, leadership, organization, etc.), 1/1982; 26-pp. booklet, Los Angeles Media Facts, 1986"; 10-pp. segment of employee handbook on "Marketing Research Department," 4/1973; 11/1987 questionnaire to LAT readers regarding their opinion of LAT Magazine; booklet, 3/1977, "Dynamic / Diverse - Los Angeles and Orange County Market"; 13-pp. booklet, "1977 Report to Times Classified Advertisers"; (10/1976) 17-pp. "Los Angeles Recruitment Guide"; full-color cover, HOME (mag) - 13-pp., 10/1976; 10-pp. spiral-bound booklet, "Los Angeles Times Net Paid Circulation," 1988; 2 copies, The Market and the Media, 1987; 10-pp. info packet, titled "1995 Gallup Los Angeles Media Study"; related marketing research materials. Binding removed. Split into two folders.
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Departments - Circulation - Audit Bureau of Circulation
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5 + items (one edge water-damaged on entire stack, no text lost): 4 Audit Reports (by Audit Bureau of Circulations) "for 12 months ending March 31, 1959," for Herald & Express (L.A.), Examiner (L.A.), Mirror News (L.A.), and Times (L.A.); additional 10-pp. with columns of figures related to circulation for the same newspapers. Audit Bureau of Circulations, "Newspaper Publisher's Statement - for 6 months ended Sept. 30, 1994 - Los Angeles Times." Report provides information on total circulation, and on many different aspects of the newspaper's sales, promotion, marketing and distribution.
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Departments - Circulation
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Approx. 30 items. Material includes: 3-pp. report in clear plastic sleeve, "Times circulation in the early years" (date of 1908 or after indicated); photocopy of Among Ourselves article, "Those Glorious Old Days," 10/1928; adv. flyers, 1981, for LAT-published book, Los Angeles 200: a Bicentennial Celebration, & mail order forms in plastic sleeve; 1 copy, LAT "Circulation Sales Manual" (1932); six reproductions of 1912 LAT promo. post cards; spiral-bound circulation sale booklet, "Good News for Southern California" (ca. 1966); employee bulletins/news releases on to circulation. sales; labor flyer of OC picketers, 10/30/1975, headed "(LAT) seizes power and control -- HELP STOP THE TAKEOVER; various circulation. promo materials; L.A. Business Journal article, 9/5/1994, "...Times continues to dominate the war of words." 1 photograph: snapshot of a man and woman at the circulation desk, undated.
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Departments - Marketing Research - McKinsey report 1988
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2 items: 35-pp. report, "Meeting Reader Needs: interpreting the boundary - market research results," 10/1988 (with attached note to Craig [St. Clair] from Dennis Driscoll); 35-pp. plus report, "Primary focus on circulation."
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Departments - Circulation - Berliner research report on circulation
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"1 item. 48-pp. "A Berliner Research Report on Newspaper Circulation (#4549)," 1938. Prepared by J.J. Berliner & Staff, New York, NY. The report is divided into ten major parts: I. How a wholesaler uses [an] assembly line... II. Mechanization of newspaper mailing III. Ways to meet high costs IV. Newspapers' productive circulation areas to be determined by new trading region analysis V. Street sales can be boosted profitably VI. Mail circulation can be expanded VII. Special offers boost sales VIII. Sunday and Daily newspapers; a study of their differences IX. Community store delivers the papers X. What is circulation expense? "
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