Manuscripts

Departments - Editorial - Editorial Coverage - Movies

Description: Approx. 20 items. Material includes: copies of articles from Among Ourselves (various years) relating to motion picture news; excerpts from books, Thinking Big and Hedda and Loulla; 2 memos from 1990 (to Ron Iori) with LAT Calendar section history info.; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1928 - 1990
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Departments - Editorial - METPRO/Minority Training Program

Manuscripts

9 items: Materials include: booklets and information sheets related to Minority Editorial Training Program - METPRO / Reporting, METPRO / Editing, 1984-1994; LAT News Release - "Special Section Profiles 12 Black Journalists," 2/23/1990; 2 articles from Among Ourselves, "(19)94 METPRO class joins The Times" (1984), "Ron Harris to direct minority program," (1994); white envelope containing 2 photos of METPRO "Class of '92."

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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 - Employee Relations - Articles

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Material includes: copies of Among Ourselves clippings from late 1920s onward; LAT clips on subject of unions, LAT employee "census" counts; 1987 memo to LAT employees on availability of radon testing kits; booklet, "A report to the employees of the Times-Mirror Company" (1957); 6-pp. report, "Times Mirror / LAT info for Employees, ca. 1964"; memos and other info., 1988, on Temporary Help Agencies; 2/1/1989 clip from LAT, "20 at Times Costa Mesa plant charged with drug sales"; LAT Performance Appraisal Form, 1/1985; 14-pp. LAT "Employee Handbook, 1990"; etc.

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Departments - Editorial - Editorial Coverage - Ethnic Minorities

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Material includes: 4 clear plastic sleeves containing tear sheets of a series of articles by David Shaw on the coverage of ethnic minorities by newspapers in general, and LAT specifically (12/1990); one tear sheet, 5/26/1992), "Times coverage of LAPD, Minority areas," by David Shaw.

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Departments - Editorial - Editors

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Material includes: various chronological listings of LAT Editors; tear sheet of Among Ourselves, 6/1974, with photo essay, "The Senior Editors"; "Newspeak" column from L.A. Weekly (sarcastic coverage of other L.A. publications), 8/7-13/1987; 2-pp. (yellow) sheets with info on editor chrono., plus additional info on Harry Andrews, Leroy Mosher and Charles Lummis; dupes of some of above items; article, Time (mag), 6/28/1971, "Chandler's Change of Heart," on last minute switch by Otis Chandler in placing William F. Thomas into top Editor position instead of an earlier choice, Robert J. Donovan; article, Newsweek, 9/6/1971 (same topic as Time article; LAT article, undated, "Cotliar to replace Haven as Times Managing Editor."

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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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