Manuscripts

Daily News purchase

Description: 4 items: two versions of an announcement, n.d., which opened, "Today the Times-Mirror Company concluded an agreement with Clinton D. McKinnon...Editor and Publisher of the Daily News," and went on to explain TM's motives and plans related to the purchase ; 5-pp. packet under the heading "Suggested statement," with two versions of a statement by Clinton D. McKinnon, Editor and Publisher of the Daily News.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1954
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,

Newspapers - Daily News

Manuscripts

Approx. 45 items: selection of newspaper stories, from LAT and other area newspapers, as diverse as California Publisher and Temple City Times, on the history and final closing of the Daily News (L.A.) in 1954. Notable items: original letter, 7/18/1924, from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. to Cordelia St. Clair of Hollywood, on subject of common stock in the newspaper ; article copy, Frontier (mag), 2/1955, "The Daily News and why it died" ; article copy, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1970, "No news today...how Los Angeles lost a daily" ; original tear sheet and one copy, Westways, 12/1974, "Daily News folds! ; LAT tear sheet, 12/26/1984, featuring article on Daily News by Patt Morrison, "After 30 years, an EXTRA!" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/11/1985, "Jack Kent Cooke buys Daily News for $176 million" ; ?/1986 tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "The Return of Jack Kent Cooke" ; LAT clip, 8/21/1990, "Editorial employees picket Daily News."

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Daily News (formerly Valley News)

Manuscripts

4 items: articles and correspondence related to the start-up (1979) of The Valley News (soon to be renamed The Daily News) as a "news" paper as opposed to a free "shopper." Other materials are related to The Daily News' pretensions as a competitor of LAT and Herald-Examiner.

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New York Daily News

Manuscripts

One item comprising seven pages of newspaper cllippings pertaining to the New York Daily News.

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Greensboro Daily News

Manuscripts

Two items comprising five pages pertaining to the Greensboro Daily News, containing letters and memos.

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Chicago Daily News

Manuscripts

Two items comprising four pages pertaining to the Chicago Daily News, containing letters and an envelope.

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Daily Advertising Comparisons

Manuscripts

Bound volumes listing daily advertising sales in reverse chronological order for the Times, Examiner, Herald, Daily/Illustrated News, and Evening News during the years 1937-1940. Date range 1936-1940.

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Daily News purchase

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