Manuscripts

"Zones" issues

Description: Approx. 12 items: large folded map of Greater L.A. Circulation zone boundaries, 1958 ; 14-pp. report, "The Suburban (Zone) Sections of the Los Angeles Times, 1957 - 1966" ; 10-pp. report, "Daily Orange County Zones at Costa Mesa" ; 14-pp. report, "Readership Study of LOS ANGELES SUBURBAN NEWSPAPERS, INC. (8 - 10/1963) by Facts Consolidated" ; multi-page, spiral bound report (yellow cover) - "Suburban Sections Report" (2/1962) ; multi-page spiral bound report (blue cover) - "An analysis of the Suburban Sections with a proposed immediate & extended program, 1963 - 1964" ; more.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1958 - 1964
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Suburban Sections (Zones) (1 of 2)

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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 (Zones) (2 of 2)

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"Zones" issues

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Approx. 20 items: memos and brief reports related to the operations of the Suburban Zone sections of LAT.

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Suburban Zones/Sections Report

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2 items: "cover" memo dated 10/15/1987 - "Summary of Zones" ; approx. 20-pp. report, "Suburban Sections & Editions," with charts.

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Miscellaneous materials (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 70 items (exact count difficult because much of the material has been bunched and stapled):memos, letters, press releases, reports, tearsheets, and other material related to newspaper marketing and advertising. Major items: 48-pp. commemorative booklet, Los Angeles Sports 200 (1981), published by L.A. Junior Chamber of Commerce ; complete issue of Sales and Marketing Management, 6/1986, 17-pp. (stapled) issue of Display Advertising Digest, 10/1986, an LAT publication ; multi-page report, "Circulation history of the Los Angeles Times Suburban Sections," 6/1972 ; multi-page report, "Territorial history of the Los Angeles TImes Suburban Sections," 6/1972.

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