Manuscripts
Employees - Finley, Mark
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Employees - Finley, Harold M
Manuscripts
1 item: LAT tear sheet, 12/4/1941, "Big story wins a job," describes how a freelance story pitched to LAT won Finley a staff writing job in 1909.
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Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - Newspapers
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Approx. 15 items: 1 copy, 20-pp. bio material & co-worker interview transcripts; approx. 20-pp. of text, beginning, "I would like to discuss with you ...some of the current criticism directed at the daily press in this country"; 5-pp. text by Hotchkiss on the occasion of LAT 75th Anniversary; 4-pp. copied from ASNE Bulletin, 6/1/1957, "The 'full text' is still with us," featuring a quote from Hotchkiss; other ASNE Bulletins from 1950s, in which Hotchkiss is mentioned; tear sheet of 1951 article at the time of William Randolph Hearst's death; a selection of opinion pieces (1940s-1950s) by Hotchkiss; a profile (1948) of LAT staffer Tim Turner, "an 18th century liberal."
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Correspondence
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6 items: program booklet, "The Pulitzer Prizes - 75th Anniversary Celebration (9/22/1991)...Columbia University..." ; stapled packet (approx. 35 sheets), headed "Category X Criticism," with article copies from various newspapers being submitted for Pulitzer consideration ; list of names, addresses and phone numbers of "The Pulitzer Prize Board" as of 3/19/1991 ; correspondence involving David Laventhol (Times Mirror), Russell Baker (N.Y. Times), Meg Greenfield (Washington Post) and others.
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Anniversaries, 1932 - 1981
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Approx. 12 items. Material includes clippings and photocopies of LAT "birthday" articles from various years, including 1941, 1956 (75th), 1959, and text of speech given by U.S. Sen. William F. Knowland at LAT 75th Anniversary luncheon, 12/4/1956. Also in the folder is one copy of "Some Famous Firsts in Los Angeles," an insert published by LAT in 1956.
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Production - Employee Policies
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approx. 7 items: 9-pp. report, undated, "Changes - Policy, including personnel and work methods; 4-pp. packet of information (stapled), 2/1966, "Production Overtime"; 3 memos (stapled) 1/1967, on incentive systems / bonuses, etc.
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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts
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Approx. 12 items, some duplicates. Several examples of LAT 30-second "radio continuity" (ads). Several transcripts on various subjects: the firing of Joyce Haber (Charles Champlin is mentioned) reported on KNBC-tv; a gay protest at LAT building, reported by KFWB-radio (multi-page stack, dated 10/22-- Reverend Robert Serico/Sirocco interviewed several times; 2 copies of KNBC-tv interview (12/26) of Jean Sharley Taylor, new Associate Editor of LAT; transcript of KFI "Talk Radio" from 8/1 of "caller" criticizing Dorothy Chandler and the County Supervisors--"she got the supervisors to award her $100,000 of taxpayers' money to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion."
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