Manuscripts

Mass Media

Description: 5 items. Notable items include: 6-pp. article copy, Business Week, 3/27/1971, "The TV networks shrug off new competition" ; 7-pp. article copy, The Atlantic, 7/1969, "The American media baronies, a modest Atlantic Atlas" ; LAT "Update," article - "Schlosberg to retire... Willes to become Times publisher" ; more (some stapled packets seem illogically grouped).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1969 - 1997
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Articles

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2 items: LAT article [late 1993], "Schlosberg is named new Times Publisher"; LAT tear sheet (pp. 1 & jumps), 9/13/1997, "Mark Willes is named Publisher of The Times."

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Approx. 15 items: packet of LAT memos, 5/2/1995, plus a news release with bio info on Mark Willes and Robert Erburu; article copy, Editor & Publisher, 5/13/1995, "Willes to succeed Erburu as CEO of Times Mirror Co."; column copy, Boston Globe, 5/1995, "News ways to satisfy your appetite," by Mike Barnacle; article copy, 5/8/1995, "CEO Willes touts brand new ways at (TM)"; article copy, Advertising Age, 6/5/1995, "Times Mirror shifts course," with cover note from Laura Morgan; article copy, AdWeek, 6/26/1995, "Times Mirror tries to deliver its future"; article copy, Wall St. Journal, 7/17/1995, "New York paper's end is...the beginning for Times Mirror CEO...Mark Willes mulls changes in executive ranks and at Los Angeles Times"; LAT article copy, "7/19/1995, "Los Angeles Times to reduce its work force by 700 in 1995"; article copy, (L.A.) Daily News, "L.A. Times to cut 470 positions - profits trail industry average"; Wall St. Journal and New York Times articles, same day, same story; article copy, American Journalism Review, 7-8/1995, "General Mills gift to journalism"; a collection of news articles, 9/12 - 9/19, during 1997, on Mark Willes being named LAT publisher (replacing Richard Schlosberg), from publications and services such as AP, Reuter, Dow Jones, N.Y. Times, Denver Post, Washington Post, Newsday, Hartford Courant, Orange County Register, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, et al.

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Schlosberg, Richard T

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Speech to New York investment community, February 1995; RTS Address at Employee Recognition Event, February 28, 1995; Paine Webber Media Conference presentation made by Mark Willes, Tom Unterman, Kathryn Downing, and Dick Schlosberg, December 7, 1995.

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Employees - Downing, H. E

Manuscripts

4 items: 2 copies, Among Ourselves, 1/1949, "Men who made The Times," on H.E. Downing; rough draft of Downing bio, 5-pp. on yellow paper w/ corrections; article copy, Among Ourselves, 1/1946, "Downing, McBride retire after long service with firm."

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Media Companies

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Approx. 20 items: brief profiles of LAT, along with other media companies from Time (1964), Business Week (3/1971), Editor & Publisher (4/1971), etc. Major items: 12-pp. copied from The Atlantic, 7/1969, "The American Media Baronies..." ; pp. 54-58, copied from Saturday Review, 2/13/1971, "What is black and white and the tenth largest industry in the country?" ; booklet, "An extended view of public attitudes toward television and other mass media 1959-1971," Roper Organization, 6/1971 ; booklet, "Summary of Operating Results - Major Publicly held newspaper companies, 1966-1970," (reprint from Editor & Publisher, 7/17/1971) ; complete issue, Finance--the Magazine of Money, 4/1973 ; reprint from Time (mag), 7/8/1974, "The Press...fair of foul," (incl. two articles) ; 12-part series reprinted from The Washington Post, "The Newspaper Business," orig. published beginning 7/24/1977 ; complete issue, Columbia Journalism Review, "Supermarketing the newspaper," 9/1977.

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Death

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Approx. 10 items: article copy, Los Angeles (magazine), 8/1997, "The Power that Was - Dorothy "Buff" Chandler 1901 - 1997"; 4-pp. Times Mirror news release, 7/6/1997, "Dorothy Buffum Chandler dies at 96"; LAT memo, 7/6/1997, by Richard T. Schlosberg III, on "Dorothy Chandler's contributions to the institutions of Los Angeles..."; LAT Communications Department news release, 7/6/1997, on passing of Mrs. Chandler; clipping from LAT, 7/8/1997, of Paul Conrad's drawing in tribute of Mrs. Chandler; copy of N.Y. Times obit, 7/8/1997, "Dorothy Chandler, 96, dies ... arts patron in Los Angeles"; transcripts of broadcast reports of Mrs. Chandler's death; LAT tear sheet, 7/7/1997, "Dorothy Chandler, cultural leader, dies"; negative of photo portrait of Mrs. Chandler, taken on 2/6/1963 (in plastic sleeve).

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