Manuscripts

Editorial

Description: 4 items: 16 x 14" full color illustrated map inspired by the book "Alice in Wonderland" with "Mirror City Room" handwritten at top margin and names of about thirty staffers and locations at The Mirror hand-printed along the margins ; 3-pp. "Report on Mirror Editorial Department - 1948" ; 9-pp. "Report to Mr. Norman Chandler, Mirror Editorial - 1949" ; brief article copied from Among Ourselves, 1/1950, "Mirror adds new Southland Home section."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1948 - 1950
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.

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: article copy, Among Ourselves, 4/1960, "Times, Mirror news libraries are key information centers"; 1-pp., copied from a history of LAT, the writer seems to be Harrison Gray Otis, because, in referring to the aftermath of the 1910 explosion and fire at LAT, the text reads, "I have been gradually collecting books...for a reference library, and...am keeping them at 'The Bivouac' [Otis's home on Wilshire Blvd.], (rather than) the temporary editorial rooms of The Times."; 3-pp. memo, 2/23/1954, "Defendant's pre-trial memorandum - The Times-Mirror Co. vs. U.S. of America"; 46-pp. spiral-bound report, "Editorial Library - User Survey," by Cecily J. Surace, 11/1980; 19-pp. report by graduate students in library / information science (Livia Di Mare/Glenn Johnson-Grau) on the Edit. Lib., 1992, recounting the history, services, resources, and research practices, and describing departments within the library; articles on the library from AO, 1927, 1976; info on LAT database's availability on Nexis; 11-pp. booklet, 12/1982, "Guide to the (LAT) Editorial Library"; article copy, CD-ROM Professional (mag), "Searching Los Angeles Times DIALOG OnDisc: The Times Editorial Library Experience," by Dorothy Ingebretsen and Steven Tice; plus assorted brief reports on aspects of the library.

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Editorial Staff - Recruiting and Keeping

Manuscripts

6 items. File contains 17 pp. report titled "Tomorrow's Editors: A report on the status of journalism education..." 2 pp. memo headed "Personnel" from Frank McCulloch to Williams (with margin notes) on topic of attracting and keeping talented staffers. A considerable amount of discussion concerning the role of editorial work and the value of staffers educates as journalists. Also a few other memos, including one headed "Ideas on Editorial Recruitment." Undated memo to Otis Chandler notes "Newspapers are now attracting by far the best all-around talent they ever attracted. This used to be a business for showoffs, crackpots and drunks, with an occasional brilliant reporter. It isn't that way now.

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Departments - Editorial - Calendar Section

Manuscripts

5 items. Materials include: LAT memo (8/22/1960) from Edw. Reap, Promotion, to James Toland, Sunday Editorial, on the soon to be published "first issue of the new entertainment tabloid CALENDAR..."; copy of article from Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "Calendar has new look, new columnist"; tear sheet of "Calendar - Letters" for 6/28/1987, featuring a selection of letters critical of the "Calendar" section; 3-pp. report headed "Sunday Calendar Redesign," 7/1994; article copied from Lifestyle Media-Relations Reporter, 9/5/1994, "Los Angeles Times Calendar Eds: Home Entertainment, Family Fun," mentions staffers Sherry Stern, Susan Freudenheim, Anne Hurley and John Lindsay.

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Departments - Editorial - Editorial Awards

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: 8 programs from LAT Editorial Awards Banquet, 2 cps. of 18th Annual (1978), 3 cps. of 20th Annual (1980), 1 cp. 21st Annual (1981), 1 cp. of 25th Annual (1985), 1 cp. 33rd Annual (1993); list of 1982 Winners; 2 cps. of "Transcript of the Twenty-Seventh Annual (LAT) Editorial Awards"; 5-pp. set of material headed, "Editorial Contests - April - June 1990"; transcripts of the 30th and 33rd Annual Editorial Awards"; Among Ourselves articles, 2/1966 and 4/1989, both on Editorial Awards of those years.

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Departments - Editorial - "Editorial Excellence"

Manuscripts

1 item: approx. 130-pp. transcript (from Tapes I, II and III), "Los Angeles Times Executive Conference - Editorial Excellence (5/17/1969)." The Conference seminar was conducted at Times Mirror Square. The transcript was labeled "Confidential." A list appears on the first page with names of the top ranking editors--Nick B. Williams, Frank Haven, James Bassett, James Bellows, William F. Thomas, etc.--and executives--Otis Chandler, Robert Flannes, Robert D. Nelson, etc.-- who participated.

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Departments - Editorial - Sections and Features

Manuscripts

14 items. Materials include: 13-pp. chronology, headed "Editorial Changes," running from 4/24/1960, "Opinion Section stared...", to 5/1974, "News Bureau is established in Cairo...", and 6/1974, "Paul Steiger wins the ...Loeb Award" (Financial journalism); 6-pp. (stapled) headed, "Today's metropolitan newspaper must compete successfully with other media," followed by listing of "Editorial Improvements" running from 1960 to 1966, bureau openings, news additions to LAT editorial staff, innovations; 2-pp. with listing of "Sections of the Times," giving dates various sections started, and more in-depth info for Obituary Page, the Tuesday Business Section, and Focus; article, Among Ourselves, 1929, "How we have grown!"; two copies of 12-pp. booklet titled "Daily and Sunday Features published in the Los Angeles Times ("1959" added in pencil on the unbound copy), the spiral-bound copy (with cover) is dated 1/1/1962 (binding removed) ; 1-pp. chronology for "Los Angeles Times Illustrated Weekly Magazine," 1897 - 1934; 1-pp. chronology headed "Home Magazine started," running from 1940 - 1972; article, Among Ourselves, 5/1960, "Sunday Times Given Attractive New Look"; 3-pp. of material from Los Angeles Sunday Times of 12/5/1897, including the cover of the "Illustrated Magazine Section"; 2-pp. "Fact sheet" on Voices section (start-up was 9/1992) including bio info for editors Judy Dugan and Dean Wakefield, and description of features appearing in the section; 2-pp. "fact sheet" for City Times section (start-up 1992), including general description and brief professional bios on the entire staff of the section; 2-pp. chronology of "LAT Sunday Supplements," by Craig St. Clair (1991).

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