Manuscripts

Departments - Editorial - Personnel

Description: Materials include: 6-pp., in list form, headed "Staff - 1944," giving section names, personnel names and area of responsibility/job name; memo, 3/30/1959, from Nick Williams, being a general announcement of Taylor Trumbo's promotion to Managing Editor, and Chester Hale's promotion to City Editor; typed note--unsigned and unadressed--gives "ethnic breakdown of the editorial staffers," 5/12/1977. Management Bulletins, News Releases dated between 1983 and 1990; two copies of a 1995 LAT clip headlined "Clayton, Del Olmo, Plate get new Times assignments." (Janet Clayton, Frank Del Olmo, Thomas Plate); cover letter from "No Greater Love," an organization "providing...care for children of Americans who have given their lives in service to our country or in the pursuit of peace." The bulletins are announcements of promotions, appointments and organizational changes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1944, 1959, 1971 - 1995
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)

Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Personnel

Manuscripts

7 items: 3-pp. (Times-Mirror Company) "Executive Position Description - Public Relations Director," 3/1958; five Management Bulletins, 1985 - 1990, on hirings, promotions and other organizational changes in Promotion and Public Relations Department; 1-pp. map/chart of seating and office assignments for Promotion-Public Relations, 11/19/1986.

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Departments - Classified Advertising - Personnel

Manuscripts

9 items. Material includes: 9 "Management Bulletin(s)." The bulletins give the names of personnel promoted or transferred, and in some cases, professional bio material on them.

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Management Bulletins

Manuscripts

Approx. 80 items: mostly routine bulletins on periodic or annual events, some mid-level promotion notices ; bulletin, 8/18/1989, "Jeffrey S. Hall, vice president, marketing services, will be promoted to the new position of president of the San Fernando Valley Edition," effective 8/21/1989 ; bulletin, 10/3/1989, "Jeffrey S. Klein has been named to the new position of Assistant to the Publisher of The Times ; original of 36-pp. "Retiree Handbook," 8/1989 ; bulletin, 11/10/1989, "After 20 years on the Los Angeles Times editorial pages...Tony Day is taking on a new assignment....senior correspondent reporting about ideas and ideology...." (Day was succeeded as Editorial Page Editor by Thomas Plate, whose deputy would be Frank del Olmo.

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Departments - Editorial - Personnel Bios

Manuscripts

Approx. 85 items. Personnel biographical forms providing name, date of birth, education, previous work experience, positions held in company, company development (workshops, seminars, etc), date of preparation. Some dupes included.

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Departments - Editorial - Photography

Manuscripts

5 items. Materials include: LAT Part III, 10/21/1892, several pp. copied to show layout of text headlined "The Great Fair -- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, October, 1892 - Views of the Principal Buildings," also the photos, which were the first halftone engravings {photos} ever in LAT; letter from Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, to a Colonel Esau, of US Army War College, dated 1/16/1980, explaining the circumstances surrounding the earliest photographs to appear in LAT; photo from Among Ourselves, 6/1964, caption, "Famous Photo - Times photog Bill Murphy shows (his 1958 photo) of the late President Kennedy" - photo selected to be on a commemorative stamp of JFK; Summer 1988 issue of Panorama (LAT retiree newsletter), lead story, "Veteran Photographer (Murphy) Remembers 'Working the Street'."

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Departments - Display Advertising - Personnel

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: Management Bulletins on promotions, transfers, organizational changes and announcements within Display Advertising.

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