Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Subjects include: letters to/from Washington Post's Katherine Graham and Bee Bradlee; joint distribution announced for news services of NY Times, Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times; Exec. Comm. meeting minutes for April 16, 1971; report on News Service rates; salary list for News Service; 1972 annual budget; report on "amalgamating our service in Europe with the Guardian and/or Financial Times; Exec. Comm. meeting minutes for Nov. 8,1971; other material on News Service operations.
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Approx. 75 items. Subject include: correspondence, meeting minutes and reports sent to members of the Executive Committee; a copy of the Memorandum of Agreement (from 1962) when the News Service was set up; 2-pp. list of clients in United States, Canada, & "Outside North America" (no date on the item); further material on Exec Comm. meetings and operations of the News Service; etc.
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Approx. 35 items. Subjects include: "wire-sharing" with AP; writer Nicholas von Hoffman; proposed terms of agreement with Agence France Presse and other materials; Executive Committee Meeting minutes (4/21/1972); results of LAT-WPost News Service questionnaire on client usage of various features and request for feedback on the service; 4-pp. report to Bill Thomas and Ben Bradlee headed :Private and Confidential," about the news service operation in Europe; writer David Broder; Executive Committee Meeting minutes (11/10/1972 & 12/7/1972); information on the finalized agreement between Agence France Presse and LAT-WP News Service; etc.
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Approx. 65 items. Subjects include: spreadsheet for 1966 LAT-WP News Service projected budget; list of clients (not dated); discussions via memo and letter of operations and clients; etc.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items: memos, letters and reports related to related to the operations of the L.A. Times - Washington Post News Service. Bulkiest items are two reports - the LAT - WP News Service Board meetings of 5/2/1983 and 11/16/1983.
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Approx. 65 items. Subjects include: wire reports and LAT memos on the operations of various national news services such as AP, UPI and NY Herald Tribune; memo from Fran Kent to Williams suggesting a "reexamination of the duties and responsibilities of the (newsservice) editor" three months into the project ; memo from Phil Graham (Wash. Post) to Otis Chandler, Williams, et. al., suggesting a meeting in Wash.; memos on the subjects for discussion at the Jan. 1963 meetings between LAT and Wash. Post execs; "Progress Report: the First Six Months" (on the Times-Post Newsservice); further memos on the ups and downs of the newsservice and on its operations; etc.
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