Manuscripts

Coffey, Shelby

Description: Approx. 20 items: memos, transcripts, tear sheets and article copies related to Editor Shelby Coffey, 1987 - 1988. Includes: approx. 25-pp. transcript of Q&A with Coffey, headed "Bureau Breakfast with Shelby Coffey," (6/10/1988) ; numerous news clips and copies on the selection of Coffey as Executive Editor of LAT ; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1987 - 1988
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Employees - Coffey, Shelby

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Approx. 15 items: tear sheet, Herald-Examiner, 4/5/1988, "L.A.Times appoints Shelby Coffey to new executive editor post"; tear sheet, NY Times, 4/6/1988, "Los Angeles Times names heir apparent to the Editor's job"; Employee Bulletin, 4/5/1988, with Tom Johnson's announcement of Coffey selection; various publications' reporting on above appointment and other career moves, incl. L.A. Weekly, The American Editor, etc; multi-page tear sheet, Esquire, 12/1988, "Shelby Coffey, Oozing Charm"; approx. 25 -pp. transcript of Coffey's remarks, including Q&A, at LAT Washington Bureau, 6/10/1988;

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Coffey, Shelby Files

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Shelby Coffey III was editor and executive vice president of the Times from 1989-1997, after holding the post of deputy associate editor from 1986-1988. Contains a fact book created for the War Desk to use during the first Gulf War (1990). All items date from 1990.

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Memoranda - Coffey, Shelby

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Memoranda to and from Shelby Coffey.

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Memoranda - Coffey, Shelby

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Memoranda to and from Shelby Coffey.

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Coffey III, Shelby

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Nine pages comprising eleven pages pertaining to Shelby Coffey, III, containing resumes, letters, and memos.

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"Articles on, 1989 - 1992 "

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Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings on women in media jobs--hiring, promotions, salaries. Two copies--1 tear sheet, 1 photocopied--of long Wall St. Journal article, "Illusory Monopoly," on LAT. Clips on Times executives Norman Chandler, Tom Johnson, David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey. NY Times article, "Soul Searching at Los Angeles Times," 8/10, on LAT "killing" a negative story about Mayor Tom Bradley. Long article from L.A. Business, 4/1989, on L.A. Daily News "taking on" LAT. 7 items. Several news clips on LAT circulation and Times Mirror profits. Photocopied article from Smart (mag) on LAT Editor Shelby Coffey. Multi-page photocopy of article from New Yorker, "Letter from Los Angeles," on the history of the Los Angeles Times and the Chandler family. 4 items: long article from L.A. Weekly, 8/9, "Times A-Changing--veteran reporters sent down to the sticks"; article from California (mag), 5/1991, "L.A.'s Troubled Times--when a bad month happens to a good paper"; article from Time (mag), 4/15, "Hello, Sweetheart! Get Me Remake," on David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey and a "refurbished" LAT; Time article, 2/11, mentioning LAT. 2 items: Article tear sheet from Los Angeles Magazine (date ?), highly critical of LAT; article from USA Today Money section, 3/13, "Turbulent Times in L.A.--Suddenly, costs, morale are problems."

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