Manuscripts

History - Publications - "Thinking Big" Reviews

Description: Approx. 20 items. Reviews of the 1977 book, Thinking Big: the Story of the Los Angeles Times, its Publishers, and their Influence on Southern California. Clips, photocopies, and reprints from Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, N.Y. Times, Columbia Journalism Review and others, plus a memo by Robert Erburu reacting to the coverage.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1977 - 1978
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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History - Publications - "The Powers That Be" - Reviews (1 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 67 items. Reviews of the 1979 book, The Powers that Be, by David Halberstam. Clippings, photocopies and reprints of reviews from Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, N.Y. Times, Washington Post, Harpers, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New West, The Oregonian, Manchester Union Leader (New Hampshire), many other major magazines and newspapers, and many relatively small newspapers around California, the Pacific Coast states and New York City. Split into two folders.

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History - Publications - "The Powers That Be" - Reviews (2 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 67 items. Reviews of the 1979 book, The Powers that Be, by David Halberstam. Clippings, photocopies and reprints of reviews from Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, N.Y.Times, Washington Post, Harpers, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New West, The Oregonian, Manchester Union Leader (New Hampshire), many other major magazines and newspapers, and many relatively small newspapers around California, the Pacific Coast states and New York City. Split into two folders.

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Gottlieb, Robert

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Approx. 35 items: clips from LAT, University Times (Cal. St.), The Quill, Weekly News, correspondence, flyers, transcripts of conversations and other material related to author Robert Gottlieb, who's "unauthorized" book about LAT, Thinking Big, was highly critical of the newspaper. Gottlieb taught for UCLA extension, weaving his thoughts on LAT into his lectures.

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Articles

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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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Laventhol, David

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David Laventhol (1933 - ) attended Yale and the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining Times Mirror, he was an editor at the New York Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, and Newsday. Laventhol was President of Times Mirror from 1987-1993, Publisher & CEO from 1989-1993, and Editor-at-Large from 1994-1998. Series include correspondence, reports, and other material related to the Pulitzer Prize Committee, on which Laventhol sat, arranged chronologically. Date range is 1972-1993.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Contests

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: copies of LAT clips, 1922, 1926 - "New 'idea contest' for motion picture subjects started by De Mille and The Times," ""Winners in Times-De Mille film contest are announced"; 4-pp. News Release, 11/12/1987, "Times sponsors 'Write Stuff' contest at Dorothy Kirby Center"; photo & caption, ca. 1920, "Hoisting the prize autos to (2nd fl.) of The Times building"; article copy, "Start today in great popularity campaign," ca. 1920; tear sheet for 1989 "Tangle Towns" contest; clips of other contests, 1904, 1926.

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