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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
6 items. File contains 17 pp. report titled "Tomorrow's Editors: A report on the status of journalism education..." 2 pp. memo headed "Personnel" from Frank McCulloch to Williams (with margin notes) on topic of attracting and keeping talented staffers. A considerable amount of discussion concerning the role of editorial work and the value of staffers educates as journalists. Also a few other memos, including one headed "Ideas on Editorial Recruitment." Undated memo to Otis Chandler notes "Newspapers are now attracting by far the best all-around talent they ever attracted. This used to be a business for showoffs, crackpots and drunks, with an occasional brilliant reporter. It isn't that way now.
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Approx. 20 items. Material includes: tear sheet, 3/9/1937, 3 photos/captions allegedly showing that (L.A.) Examiner retouched and used LAT photo of wounded DA Fitts, "Here is a study of pictorial journalism"; stack of approx. 15 typed, photocopied sheets describing LAT's coverage of nation and world in editorials (1939-40); 13-pp. report, typed on yellow paper, gives headlines and summary of editorials, headed "Pre-WW2 (Asia, Europe) 1926-38 - HC-NC (& LEAGUE failures)"; single sheet, typed, "The Times' Creed," calls for "the loyalty of every Phalanx member [all staffers]"; copy of brief editorial, 6/23/1932, headline, "Things aren't so bad when...", opening with "Daily we see or hear about some kindly deed"; clips of editorials related to LAT policy toward Spanish-speaking Angelenos, tobacco--how harmful?, increase in crime, Gen. Otis' "carefully-wrought instructions" to "Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chandler" about how to conduct LAT operation "after his demise" (1917); a 1929 thesis presented at Claremont Colleges, "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," which points up the ultra-conservative viewpoint of LAT editorial policy; 3/24/1976 info sheet [LAT Editorial Policy] on LAT daily column, "Information," which appeared in the 1910s, and which was a mouthpiece for the anti-union stance of the paper; 28-pp. (yellow sheets) headed, "Times & opposition papers (SG chronology)," beginning in 1881, running to 1914; plastic bag containing several copies of editorials, 1919-1934, on the subjects "hard liquor advertising," the Lindbergh kidnapping," "the press and the public," and "yellow journalism."
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4 items: 16 x 14" full color illustrated map inspired by the book "Alice in Wonderland" with "Mirror City Room" handwritten at top margin and names of about thirty staffers and locations at The Mirror hand-printed along the margins ; 3-pp. "Report on Mirror Editorial Department - 1948" ; 9-pp. "Report to Mr. Norman Chandler, Mirror Editorial - 1949" ; brief article copied from Among Ourselves, 1/1950, "Mirror adds new Southland Home section."
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2 items: reproduction of Opinion Page One for 1/31/1988, with headline "GLASNOST - Truth helps, truth hurts"; article, Editor & Publisher, 5/21/1994, "Expression by Advertisement," explaining a criticism State Sen. Tom Hayden had regarding LAT; various issues of Among Ourselves from 1949, 1974, etc., showcasing articles on the philosophy and operation of LAT Editorial Pages. Oversize pencil and pen drawing of Editorial page eagle logo remove to Reference File - Oversize box.
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Memo from Norman Chandler to L. D. Hotchkiss listing the members of the Editorial Department to be retired. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.
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Payroll survey of the Editorial Department from 1937.
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