Manuscripts

Employees - Finley, Mark

Description: 2 items stapled together: letter, 4/9/1991, from Mark Finley of MA., addressed to "Dear LA Times Archives," offering to provide some historical information on LAT (he was communications consultant in L.A. ca. the 1930s; 1-pp. copied from Variety's 75th Anniversary Edition, article titled "Birth of TV in Hollywood," in which Finley is mentioned.(undated).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1991
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.
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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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3 items: LAT clip, undated - ca. 1970, "Mark Murphy appointed Times Metropolitan Editor"; single-sheet, "Biography from the Los Angeles Times," for Mark Murphy, 7/1977 (started at LAT in 1964); 24-pp. transcript of interview, headed "L.A. Times -- Mark Murphy -- Tape R#12 and R#13."

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Reductions under Mark Willes

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items. Material includes: news stories from local and national media on July 1995 LAT layoffs of hundreds of employees; in-depth interviews by Warren Olney of Nat. Public Radio with Laura Morgan (LAT Dir. of Comm.), Kevin Starr (historian, California State Librarian), Charles Rapley (Editor, L.A. Weekly), Lawrence Dietz (historian, author), and Joe Scott (journalist, political consultant), etc.; July 1995 news stories from NY Times, Wall St. Journal, (L.A.) Daily News, The Hollywood Reporter, Editor & Publisher, L.A. Business Journal, L.A. Reader, Chicago Tribune, Time magazine; LAT News Release (7/21/1995) announces "...Section Changes, Staff Reductions."

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Employees - Bellows, James

Manuscripts

7 items: article, Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "James Bellows joins Times (as Associate Editor)"; 10/28/1966, Otis Chandler's memo on appointment of Bellows as LAT Associate Editor; article copy, New West, 1/16/1978, "What's black and blue...", on Jim Bellow's becoming editor of L.A. Herald-Examiner ; tear sheet, 8/1/1978, Esquire, "Can Jim Bellows Save...(Herald-Exam.)"; tear sheet, LAT, 11/20/1981, "Editor of Herald Examiner resigns..."; tear sheet, LAT, 7/13/1983, "Bellows will develop a TV magazine for ABC"; tear sheet, LAT, 10/13/1988, "USA Today TV sets different direction";

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

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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Employees - Hotchkiss, L.D. - Editorials - Newspapers

Manuscripts

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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