Manuscripts
Valley Section (2 of 2)
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Valley Section (1 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items: notes, letters, memos, reports and other material related to the Valley Section. Includes: a collection of memos on operation of, and changes to the Valley Section ; promotion of the Valley Section ; 20-pp. report (large font) headed "COMPARATIVE DEMOGRAPHICS - AGE -- EDUCATION -- ETHNIC," which includes info in both charts and text ; spiral-bound booklet titled "San Fernando Valley - Display Advertising Department ; more. Split into two folders.
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Real Estate Section
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: notes, memos, letters and reports related to the LAT Real Estate section, 1967 - 1988. Includes: 6-pp. report, John Lindsay to Shelby Coffey III on "Sunday Real Estate Project" w/ attached sheet on figures on 10 years of "Real Estate Linage ; info packet on banquet (12/3/1987) honoring LAT's Dick Turpin put on by Society for Marketing Professional Services ; memos from 1978 on expansion of Real Estate section ; material from 1967 on "zoning" the Real Estate section ; more.
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Suburban Sections (Zones) (2 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Materials include: 44-pp. spiral-bound report by Ron Haggart, Canadian author of uncertain affiliation, "The Los Angeles Times and the Suburbs," April 1967; various clippings/copies of suburban section and "Among Ourselves" stories; large packet (50+ pp.) of charts and analysis of LAT, OC edition, and suburban editions operations; assorted maps, charts and statistical information related to these operations, from the 1950s to the 1970s; copy of article from American Journalism Review, 11/1993, "A Zone of Their Own" on the new zoned section covering "central city"; three-pp. report,"Development of (LAT) Zone Sections and Editions," in the form of a chronology; two-pp. report titled "Westside Section History" (3/31/88); article, probably from "Among Ourselves" newsletter, titled "Zone offices pull together a decentralized area," (no date seen). Split into two folders.
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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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Suburban Sections (Zones) (1 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Materials include: 44-pp. spiral-bound report by Ron Haggart, Canadian author of uncertain affiliation, "The Los Angeles Times and the Suburbs," April 1967; various clippings/copies of suburban section and "Among Ourselves" stories; large packet (50+ pp.) of charts and analysis of LAT, OC edition, and suburban editions operations; assorted maps, charts and statistical information related to these operations, from the 1950s to the 1970s; copy of article from American Journalism Review, 11/1993, "A Zone of Their Own" on the new zoned section covering "central city"; three-pp. report,"Development of (LAT) Zone Sections and Editions," in the form of a chronology; two-pp. report titled "Westside Section History" (3/31/88); article, probably from "Among Ourselves" newsletter, titled "Zone offices pull together a decentralized area," (no date seen). Split into two folders.
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Suburban Sections - San Fernando Valley expansion
Manuscripts
Approx. 45 items: memos, letters, reports, lists, related to operation of the Suburban Sections. Includes: five year plans ; budgets ; Section Editors Conference material ; circulation ; expenses ; more.
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