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Chronological File - August
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Approx. 25 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (8/16) letter to Howard Hays, Editor, Riverside Press-Enterprise, attached to ASNE forms for William Thomas' membership, and praising Hays for his work as Editor; (8/13) reply to a reader who praised cartoonist Conrad (the majority who wrote in criticized him) ; (8/13) letter to Stuart Loory on "theme issues" of West mag., which NBW does not like; (8/4) 2-pp. letter to Frank Tremaine, VP, United Press International, reacting negatively to notice of a 10% price increase to LAT for the UPI service; (8/4) letter to J. Edw. Murray of Detroit Free Press, in which NBW says that positive reaction to "Doonesbury" is word-of-mouth, negative is in letters; etc.
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Associated Press
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Approx. 80 items. Letters, memos and other material related to Associated Press. Subjects include the nomination of Otis Chandler to sit on the AP Board of Directors, and the rising cost of communications for news media, etc.
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Newspaper Analysis Service - Correspondence
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Approx. 35 items: correspondence involving H.E. Downing, Norman Chandler and Cooke Coen , Gen. Mgr. of Newspaper Analysis Service, 1938 - 1940.
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Articles on, 1970 - 1974
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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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Coffey, Shelby
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Riverside Press-Enterprise Lecture "Newspaper in the 90s" (2 copies) February 3, 1993; 31st Annual Editorial Awards remarks (2 versions), March 19, 1993; Bear Stearns Seventh Media and Communications Conference Future of News Panel, October 27, 1993.
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Circulation dealers
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4 items: memos related to LAT circulation dealers, thjree from Bert Tiffany, Director of Circulation, and one from Robert D. Nelson, VP and Gen. Mgr. of LAT.
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