Manuscripts
Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service
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Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service
Manuscripts
Approx. 65 items. Subjects include: Minutes of the Jan. 1964 Meeting of the Exec. Comm. of LAT-Wash. Post News Service (incl. election of Katherine Graham to the Board replacing her late husband, Phillip Graham; multi-page Rex Barley (Syndicate) report on his two and one half week trip to Asia; correspondence between Williams and "Kay" Graham, and between W. and Robert Keith of WP; preparations for '64 Pres. campaign coverage; news release on the opening of a nightly high speed file to Europe; etc.
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Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service
Manuscripts
Approx. 75 items. Subject include: correspondence, meeting minutes and reports sent to members of the Executive Committee; a copy of the Memorandum of Agreement (from 1962) when the News Service was set up; 2-pp. list of clients in United States, Canada, & "Outside North America" (no date on the item); further material on Exec Comm. meetings and operations of the News Service; etc.
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Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service
Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items. Subjects include: "wire-sharing" with AP; writer Nicholas von Hoffman; proposed terms of agreement with Agence France Presse and other materials; Executive Committee Meeting minutes (4/21/1972); results of LAT-WPost News Service questionnaire on client usage of various features and request for feedback on the service; 4-pp. report to Bill Thomas and Ben Bradlee headed :Private and Confidential," about the news service operation in Europe; writer David Broder; Executive Committee Meeting minutes (11/10/1972 & 12/7/1972); information on the finalized agreement between Agence France Presse and LAT-WP News Service; etc.
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Times - Post News Service (2 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: memos, letters and reports related to the Times-Post News Service. Major items: 20+ pp. report with attachments, in dark blue binder, marked "CONFIDENTIAL," titled "Report on Staff costs, duties and organization of the Los Angeles Times / Washington Post News Service ; 8-pp. report with 10-pp. attachments, "Confidential," "...a report on News Service sales and revenue..." (5/6/1975) ; approx. 30-pp. packet related to Times-Post Executive Committee Meeting, 10/14/1974 ; etc. Split into two folders.
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Times - Post News Service (1 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: memos, letters and reports related to the Times-Post News Service. Major items: 20+ pp. report with attachments, in dark blue binder, marked "CONFIDENTIAL," titled "Report on Staff costs, duties and organization of the Los Angeles Times / Washington Post News Service ; 8-pp. report with 10-pp. attachments, "Confidential," "...a report on News Service sales and revenue..." (5/6/1975) ; approx. 30-pp. packet related to Times-Post Executive Committee Meeting, 10/14/1974 ; etc. Split into two folders.
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Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service
Manuscripts
Approx. 65 items. Subjects include: wire reports and LAT memos on the operations of various national news services such as AP, UPI and NY Herald Tribune; memo from Fran Kent to Williams suggesting a "reexamination of the duties and responsibilities of the (newsservice) editor" three months into the project ; memo from Phil Graham (Wash. Post) to Otis Chandler, Williams, et. al., suggesting a meeting in Wash.; memos on the subjects for discussion at the Jan. 1963 meetings between LAT and Wash. Post execs; "Progress Report: the First Six Months" (on the Times-Post Newsservice); further memos on the ups and downs of the newsservice and on its operations; etc.
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