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. 40 items: memos, letters, reports and other material on LAT Mag. Includes: memo & report from Laura Morgan, Public Relations, on LAT Mag., 9/16/1985, with attached 7-pp. of "Media questions and answers" at the time LAT ceased publishing Home magazine ; 4-pp. article copied from Washington Journalism Review, 4/1985, "The new Los Angeles Times Magazine" ; memo, 7/5/1984, from Alan Parachini to Jean Sharley Taylor with attached 3-pp. of "story / profile ideas" ; 30-plus pp. (black clip) headed "Advertiser and Reader reactions to redesigned Sunday Magazine," 6/18/1984.
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5 items: LAT memo, 3/30/1987, regarding "Upcoming feature...'Notes of a counterrevolutionary' (in LAT Mag)" - memo notes that writer "Arturo Cruz is available to discuss his upcoming (LATMag) article on your program," aimed at radio/tv stations ; multi-page "Media questions and answers: Los Angeles Times Magazine" ; 2-pp. article copy, Adweek, 5/13/1986, "Can downsizing fatten Sunday magazines?" ; 6-pp. article copy, Columbia Journalism Review, 7-8/1986, "Sunday magazines: do they deserve to survive?" ; LAT memo, 3/20/1987, :LAT Magazine, preview of "Upcoming features - "A Latter Day tale of greed, forgery and deceit," and "The California Power Move."
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3 items: multi-page packet, "Summary of [answers to] questions on Among Ourselves." which analyses responses to an employee questionnaire (150 participants) on in-house newsletter, ca. 1929; article copy, Among Ourselves, 7/1940, "Picnic voted best ever -- [LAT] barbecue attendance, fun, food stupendous"; LAT article copy, 4/26/1950, "Prize awarded Times-Mirror employee paper."
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Approx. 35 items: memos, correspondence, research and reports related to the new LAT Magazine. Notable items: 42-pp. script for "New Magazine presentation - Executive Incentive Group Meeting," 9/13/1985 ; multi-page packet, "Cost porjections - LATM promotion," 7/26/1985 ; more.
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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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Approx. 12 items: letters, clippings and LAT reprints on media coverage in the period 1974 - 1975. Most (if not all) of this material relates to LAT staff writer David Shaw being assigned to write media criticism for the paper.
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