Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items. Several articles, various publications, on LAT's alleged struggles of the early 1990s--David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey, and Richard Schlossberg are mentioned. Article from L.A. Weekly, 9/3, "Palace Coup--How corporate managers wrested control of the Times from Otis Chandler"; letter to L.A. Weekly by Otis Chandler 10/8, criticizing the "errors...and wrong conclusions" of previous Charles Rappleye story ("Palace Coup") on LAT; article from Frontiers (gay newsmag.), 10/8/1993, "Gay Life at the West's Largest Newspaper." 3 items: article from Columbia Journalism Review, Nov-Dec/1994, "Are New Ideas Killing the L.A. Times?"; clipping from LAT (date?), "Times Mirror shows old rules may no longer apply"; article from Grunion Gazette (Long Beach), 9/8, "From the Publisher's Notebook." 1 item. New York Times article (photocopy), "A family struggle for the soul of Times Mirror," 11/27/1995. Personal names: Otis Chandler, Robert Erburu, Mark Willes, Shelby Coffey III, Philip Chandler.
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5 items. Articles from: Interior Design, 3/1984, "The Los Angeles Times"; (periodical unknown) "Times vs. Times: Report from L.A."; Advertising Age, 11/30, "How three suburban newspapers have grown..." (headline & article incomplete); tear sheet of Time (mag), 4/30, "The Ten Best U.S. Dailies," which has segment on LAT, plus photocopy of same article. 1 item. Tear sheet of long article from Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "The Los Angeles Times: Heartbeat of the City for 104 years." 6 items. Four articles from L.A. Weekly: 10/3, "Drug Mania: an open letter to L.A. Times staffers"; 10/17, "The L.A. Times Urine Fund," on drug testing at LAT; 11/14, brief on firing of staffer Ron Harris for interview with Essence in which he discussed sexual technique; 10/3, brief on new LAT editor Shelby Coffey. Article from New Republic, 8/11, "And the L.A. Intellectual?", on lack of intellectual life in L.A. Finally, clipping of long letter to LAT with headline, "Likes and Dislikes from a Reader of The Times." 7 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 1 photocopy) of Los Angeles (mag) article, 9/1987, "'Gray Lady' at Crossroads" - about LAT. Article from Editor & Publisher, 8/15, "Promotion priorities questioned," on women and a "glass ceiling" at LAT. Brief from Los Angeles, 7/1987, "Half a Rim Shot for the Times?" Another "glass ceiling" brief from L.A. Weekly, 8/7. Finally, Jack Smith essay, "What's News?" from 12/13 Los Angeles Times Magazine. 6 items: Comments by LAT Publisher Tom Johnson on "The Next 25 Years," Los Angeles (mag), 1/1988; Los Angeles, 4/1988, "Real Power [in L.A.]; Avenue Magazine, 10/1988, "Stop the Presses"; Downtown News, 12/12, "N.Y. Times should stay with strengths"; brief from Los Angeles (mag), 12/1988, "Changing Times"; multiple reprints of USA Today article, 12/9, "L.A. Times wraps itself in late news."
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6 items: LAT clip, 9/1/1989, "David Laventhol named Publisher of The Times" ; article from Manhattan, inc (mag), 2/1990, a profile of Laventhol, "The quiet newspaper warrior, pp. 82 ; tear sheet from Los Angeles (mag), "The 30 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles," with Laventhol at #3 ; 15-pp. article copied from Buzz (mag), 2/1994, "Who was David Laventhol?" with introductory blurb describing Laventhol as having "the manners of a recluse and the soul of a salesman" ; 9-pp. packet with LAT, L.A. Daily News, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal and O.C. Register articles of 12/3/1993 on the resignation (citing illness) of Laventhol ; American Society of Newspaper Editors press release, ?/1994, "ASNE announces two new $10,000 prizes for deadline reporting," Laventhol mentioned etc.
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6 items. Three reprints from Advertising Age of article (11/17) titled "L.A. Times: Giant in big media jungle"; article from Cal. State L.A.'s University Times, "Author plans expose of L.A. Times"; article from L.A. Free Press, 11/7-13/1975), "At the Times: speak your mind and lose your job"; memo from Robert Flannes to Otis Chandler on Robert Gottlieb lecturing at UCLA, and being highly critical of LAT, with attached page from UCLA class catalog. 1 item: article copy, 2-pp., U.K. Press Gazette, "Innovate to invigorate," by Douglas Brown, reports on LAT's circulation and editorial success of the 1960s and 1970s. Approx. 15 items. Major article from Los Angeles (mag), 12/1977, "The changing of the guard," about Otis Chandler, the "easing out" of Dorothy "Buffy" Chandler, and emergence of Tom Johnson (20 + pp. - photocopies); article from Fortune (6/1977) titled "The big play in newspaper stocks may be over"; text of interview with Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt (given here as Wolfe), authors of Thinking Big (a critical history of LAT), aired on KCOP-tv in 12/1977; NY Times article, "Coast paper (LAT) defends stand on land law"; complete issue of The Green Banner (Amer. Linen Supply Co.) 5/1977, including the article, "Interesting Customer...Los Angeles Times"; Los Angeles (mag) 3/1977), "Can the Times ad censors cope with the new morality?"; other clippings on porn movie ads being banned from LAT; two articles on Rupert Murdoch vs. Otis Chandler feud; etc. Approx. 10 items. Long article on LAT from Los Angeles (mag) titled "Changing of the Guard." (It is labeled "1978" on the margin, elsewhere same article labeled "Dec. 1977). Also "Invasion of the Copy Snatchers," from California (mag), 7/1978, on LAT expanding into San Diego market. Article from Human Behavior, "Inside the Front Page," on LAT, Wash. Post, etc. Article from Spotlight, 7/3/1978, "Managing News, Not Reporting..." on LAT. Several clippings of brief articles on the newspaper industry in general and LAT in particular.
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Approx. 10 items. Two articles critical of LAT: "Fought Ceaselessly for Freedom," The Register, 12/8/1961; "Chandler's Los Angeles Times Publishes some Dirty Books," The Californian, 3/1961. Also clippings reflecting LAT's prominence in the newspaper field: several articles by Norman Chandler and Otis Chandler, including two copies (tear sheets) of "An Octogenarian and Still More Growth Ahead," by Otis Chandler, 12/3/1961. One clipping of Newsweek article, "Away with Trivia," (on LAT efforts to balance its political/social coverage) 10/30/1961. 1 item. Clipping from LAT of 4/14/1962, headlined "Corman Lauds Times' Fair Political Coverage: Van Nuys Democrat refutes charge that Republican news is frozen out of papers." 3 items. Clipping from Time (mag.), 11/29/1963, LAT quoted in article - "Covering the Tragedy" (Kennedy assassination); clipping from The California Publisher, 6/1963, article titled "Timesmen Travel Far to Get News"; clipping from The California Publisher, 12/1963, article titled "Safety Important at L.A. Times." 1 item. Clipping from Time (mag.), 1/10/1964, with segment about LAT in longer article with brief "biographies" of major papers across U.S. 6 items. Five tear sheet copies of Saturday Review article (6/12/1965), title "The New Look at The Times" (2 have mag. cover attached); one tear sheet copy of article from The Quill, 10/1965, title "L.A. Times -- A 'How' Story of Journalism."
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7 items. Police Chief Edward M. Davis accused LAT of "attempting to generate and contrive news"; survey of newspaper publishers rates LAT second nationally (after NY Times); Saturday Review article praises "the Los Angeles Times, whose rise in both quantity and quality of news coverage during the last decade has been spectacular"; tear sheet of Los Angeles (mag) article titled "Is Los Angeles a three-newspaper kind of town?"; 27-pp. photocopy of manuscript titled "The Los Angeles Times: powerful voice in west coast journalism," by John Poppy; article from New York (mag) titled "Will Big Otis try to cross the East River?" by Edwin Diamond; etc. 9 items. Articles from various sources on the rise of LAT (since 1960) and leadership of Otis Chandler, from Editor & Publisher, Chicago Journalism Review, Business Week, and two foreign language publications (Russian? - Polish?). 3 items. Complete issue of The Bulletin (ASNE) 2/1973 - "Special Issue: The press under fire," includes essay by William F. Thomas, Editor, LAT, titled "How did we get into this terrible fix"; AP brief headlined "Times Brushes off Newsprint Strike"; AP article headlined "Sources dwindling," on confidential news sources and the courts. Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings from papers in Chicago, Santa Barbara, etc., reporting "war of words" between Union Oil Pres. Fred Hartley and LAT, NY Times and Wash. Post; Rex Reed column in Beverly Hills Discloser, titled "...Dull Editor runs The Times"; two copies of reprint from Advertising Age, "L.A. Times: Giant in big media jungle"; two Time (mag) articles mentioning LAT; complete Winter 1974 issue of The Review of Southern California Journalism, including articles titled "The forgotten history of the Los Angeles Times," "The frame-up of Mooney and Billings" and "The book the L.A. Times tried to kill."
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