Manuscripts

Policy - Cost Containment Strategies

Description: Approx. 10 items. Material includes: 2 small cardboard flyers with information on LAT "Pull Together Sweepstakes Prizes"; 7/18/1988 Tom Johnson memo on "a series of steps designed to reduce expenses"; 8/11/1988 follow-up memo to previous Johnson memo by Tom Boswell announcing "Pull Together Sweepstakes" to generate cost-cutting suggestions from all LAT employees; related cost-containment memos; memo (7/18/1988) on Expense Reduction Videotape to be viewed by LAT employees; 9/19/1988 memo on "organizational changes" from Dick Schlosberg.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1988
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Don Clark - Policy / Long term strategy

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items - memos, letters and reports on policy and long term strategies within LAT. Notable names and subjects include: Don Clark "Confidential" memo to Dick Schlosberg titled "Are we going down the wrong road in Orange County?" (10/27/1988) ; newspapers and mass marketing, packet dated 2/29/1988 ; 10-pp. essay by Don Clark to Tom Johnson, 12/15/1986, answering TJ's question, "What would you do about the paper if you were king?" ; more.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Suggestion Program

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: booklet, ca. 1985, "Los Angeles Times Suggestion System"; booklet (blue), "Getting ahead with ideas," (ca. 1965); in 1957 employee Maxine Caywood wrote a letter suggesting a bridge column be added to LAT. The suggestion was rejected, and Caywood was informed in a letter form Spence Price of the Suggestion Committee; memo on cost containment, 1988, and a flyer for the "Pull Together Sweepstakes (related to cost containment); an example of the "What is your suggestion?" form (in triplicate); other memos and material on the suggestion system.

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Subjects - Cost Reduction

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: memos, charts, reports and related material on the LAT cost containment and budget revision plan of 1988.

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Buildings - Parking Structures

Manuscripts

9 items: clipping, Downtown News, 12/12/1988, "Times opens parking structure" (213 S. Spring); LAT clipping (photocopy), "Broadway building losing skylights and top floors" (9/?/1970); letter from Tom Johnson to Carolyn Strickler of LAT History Center, inviting her to ceremony marking completion of 213 S. Spring parking structure; memo announcing opening ceremony for "213" garage on 12/9/1988; LAT article (2 photocopies), 11/1972, "Times Mirror Square garage slated for January opening" (2nd & Broadway facility); 7 copied sheets with historic photos of downtown L.A.; photocopy of LAT article, 1/21/1988, "(Parking garage) builders dig up a piece of L.A.'s Jewish history"; Downtown News article (1/30/1989), on LAT "213" parking structure's sculpted murals.

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Dick Schlosberg

Manuscripts

2 items: Tom Johnson memo, 11/13/1987, announcing that "...Schlosberg will become president and chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Times on (1/1/1988" ; Dick Schlosberg memo, 5/15/1988, on "Telephone usage guidelines."

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Financial information / Private communication

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: memos, charts and reports. Includes: 6-pp. memo from Thomas to Tom Johnson, 5/17/1982, begins, "our goal over the coming years..." ; charts showing financial impact of "Proposed expansion" ; report, 7/16/1985, "Washington Bureau pay" ; several reports on LAT compensation measured against newspaper industry ; large packet headed "Budget Narratives - William F. Thomas" (1988 budget) ; more.

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