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Description: Approx. 65 items - letters and other material. Notable names and items include: 20-pp. booklet, "How newspapers are owned -- and does it matter?" - a lecture by C.K. McClatchy, Chairman, McClatchy Newspapers, 1/27/1988 ; letter, 6/25/1988, addressed to Robert Erburu, Queen Elizabeth (Gt. Brit.) and Margaret Thatcher (PM of Gt. Brit.) protesting LAT "discrimination against Northern Irish Protestants in coverage" ; Justice Stanley Mosk (CA Supreme Ct.) ; Otis Chandler note to Day (11/11/1988) in which he mentions the illness of his son Norman ; memo, "Cost containment...travel savings" - 9/1/1988 ; newspaper reader surveys ; circulation memos and information ; more cost containment material ; wide range of memos on mundane LAT operations and policies ; Abraham Lowenthal (USC prof.) ; more. Split into two folders.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1988
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)

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Manuscripts

Approx. 65 items - letters and other material. Notable names and items include: 20-pp. booklet, "How newspapers are owned -- and does it matter?" - a lecture by C.K. McClatchy, Chairman, McClatchy Newspapers, 1/27/1988 ; letter, 6/25/1988, addressed to Robert Erburu, Queen Elizabeth (Gt. Brit.) and Margaret Thatcher (PM of Gt. Brit.) protesting LAT "discrimination against Northern Irish Protestants in coverage" ; Justice Stanley Mosk (CA Supreme Ct.) ; Otis Chandler note to Day (11/11/1988) in which he mentions the illness of his son Norman ; memo, "Cost containment...travel savings" - 9/1/1988 ; newspaper reader surveys ; circulation memos and information ; more cost containment material ; wide range of memos on mundane LAT operations and policies ; Abraham Lowenthal (USC prof.) ; more. Split into two folders.

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Policy - Cost Containment Strategies

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Approx. 10 items. Material includes: 2 small cardboard flyers with information on LAT "Pull Together Sweepstakes Prizes"; 7/18/1988 Tom Johnson memo on "a series of steps designed to reduce expenses"; 8/11/1988 follow-up memo to previous Johnson memo by Tom Boswell announcing "Pull Together Sweepstakes" to generate cost-cutting suggestions from all LAT employees; related cost-containment memos; memo (7/18/1988) on Expense Reduction Videotape to be viewed by LAT employees; 9/19/1988 memo on "organizational changes" from Dick Schlosberg.

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Subjects - Cost Reduction

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Approx. 12 items: memos, charts, reports and related material on the LAT cost containment and budget revision plan of 1988.

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Approx. 30 items: correspondence, memos and other material related to persons, groups or organizations starting with the letters "Mc." Includes: C.K. McClatchy (Pres. of McClatchy Newspapers) ; Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. (U.S. Rep.), etc.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Four letters of correspondence between C.K. McClatchy, Editor of McClatchy Newspapers, and Otis Chandler.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Suggestion Program

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Approx. 12 items. Materials include: booklet, ca. 1985, "Los Angeles Times Suggestion System"; booklet (blue), "Getting ahead with ideas," (ca. 1965); in 1957 employee Maxine Caywood wrote a letter suggesting a bridge column be added to LAT. The suggestion was rejected, and Caywood was informed in a letter form Spence Price of the Suggestion Committee; memo on cost containment, 1988, and a flyer for the "Pull Together Sweepstakes (related to cost containment); an example of the "What is your suggestion?" form (in triplicate); other memos and material on the suggestion system.

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