Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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
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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3 items: article tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 9/1980, "The Times Token Crank"; single-sheet (LAT) Biography, 5/1991, "Howard Rosenberg - Television Critic"; article copy, 12/1992, Emmy (mag), "The Rosenberg Rap - Times critic... swears he lauds TV as much as he lashes it. So why do readers belabor the barbs?"
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5 items. Articles from: Interior Design, 3/1984, "The Los Angeles Times"; (periodical unknown) "Times vs. Times: Report from L.A."; Advertising Age, 11/30, "How three suburban newspapers have grown..." (headline & article incomplete); tear sheet of Time (mag), 4/30, "The Ten Best U.S. Dailies," which has segment on LAT, plus photocopy of same article. 1 item. Tear sheet of long article from Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "The Los Angeles Times: Heartbeat of the City for 104 years." 6 items. Four articles from L.A. Weekly: 10/3, "Drug Mania: an open letter to L.A. Times staffers"; 10/17, "The L.A. Times Urine Fund," on drug testing at LAT; 11/14, brief on firing of staffer Ron Harris for interview with Essence in which he discussed sexual technique; 10/3, brief on new LAT editor Shelby Coffey. Article from New Republic, 8/11, "And the L.A. Intellectual?", on lack of intellectual life in L.A. Finally, clipping of long letter to LAT with headline, "Likes and Dislikes from a Reader of The Times." 7 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 1 photocopy) of Los Angeles (mag) article, 9/1987, "'Gray Lady' at Crossroads" - about LAT. Article from Editor & Publisher, 8/15, "Promotion priorities questioned," on women and a "glass ceiling" at LAT. Brief from Los Angeles, 7/1987, "Half a Rim Shot for the Times?" Another "glass ceiling" brief from L.A. Weekly, 8/7. Finally, Jack Smith essay, "What's News?" from 12/13 Los Angeles Times Magazine. 6 items: Comments by LAT Publisher Tom Johnson on "The Next 25 Years," Los Angeles (mag), 1/1988; Los Angeles, 4/1988, "Real Power [in L.A.]; Avenue Magazine, 10/1988, "Stop the Presses"; Downtown News, 12/12, "N.Y. Times should stay with strengths"; brief from Los Angeles (mag), 12/1988, "Changing Times"; multiple reprints of USA Today article, 12/9, "L.A. Times wraps itself in late news."
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Approx. 10 items. Two articles critical of LAT: "Fought Ceaselessly for Freedom," The Register, 12/8/1961; "Chandler's Los Angeles Times Publishes some Dirty Books," The Californian, 3/1961. Also clippings reflecting LAT's prominence in the newspaper field: several articles by Norman Chandler and Otis Chandler, including two copies (tear sheets) of "An Octogenarian and Still More Growth Ahead," by Otis Chandler, 12/3/1961. One clipping of Newsweek article, "Away with Trivia," (on LAT efforts to balance its political/social coverage) 10/30/1961. 1 item. Clipping from LAT of 4/14/1962, headlined "Corman Lauds Times' Fair Political Coverage: Van Nuys Democrat refutes charge that Republican news is frozen out of papers." 3 items. Clipping from Time (mag.), 11/29/1963, LAT quoted in article - "Covering the Tragedy" (Kennedy assassination); clipping from The California Publisher, 6/1963, article titled "Timesmen Travel Far to Get News"; clipping from The California Publisher, 12/1963, article titled "Safety Important at L.A. Times." 1 item. Clipping from Time (mag.), 1/10/1964, with segment about LAT in longer article with brief "biographies" of major papers across U.S. 6 items. Five tear sheet copies of Saturday Review article (6/12/1965), title "The New Look at The Times" (2 have mag. cover attached); one tear sheet copy of article from The Quill, 10/1965, title "L.A. Times -- A 'How' Story of Journalism."
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Approx. 20 items: LAT article copy, 3/11/1980, "Times Mirror names 5 senior vice presidents"; WSJ, same day, same topic; LAT clips in plastic sleeve, same as previous story; LAT clip, 3/6/1980, "Two (Tomas Rivera, Alfred E. Osborne, Jr.) named directors of Times Mirror Co."; LAT clip (in sleeve), 3/28/1980, "FCC approves Times Mirror purchase of 5 TV stations"; article copy, Financial World, 6/15/1980, "Digestion time--has Times Mirror bitten off more than it can chew? Don't bet on it"; LAT tear sheet, 10/23/1980, "Times Mirror agrees to buy Denver Post"; article copy, Time, 11/3/1980, "Thunder in the Rockies"; LAT clip, 11/5/1980, "Times Mirror profits decline - firm seeking cable TV system; tear sheet, Women's Wear Daily, 12/3/1980, "A sign of The Times," photo essay on reception given at TM Square by Buff Chandler; Wash. Post covered the same party; Beverly Hills People ditto; article copy, Herald Examiner, 12/5/1980, Ben Stein's column, "Mr. Reagan - your real friends don't eat veal piccata"; related notes and clips.
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3 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 2 reprints) of article from Los Angeles Magazine, title "The Changing Direction of The Times. Also, one tear sheet copy of Time (mag.) article titled "Enterprise in Los Angeles," on LAT coverage of Watts riots, the resulting Pulitzer, Otis Chandler and the philosophical evolution of LAT. Attached to the Time article is a humorous note, hand-written by Otis Chandler. 7 items. Two tear sheets of Newsweek article, "How to Build an Empire" (1/2/1967) about LAT and the Chandlers--attached is color cover photo of Otis Chandler. One tear sheet and two photocopies of Saturday Review article (9/23/1967), "New Winds in the South, New Splash in the North, in part, about LAT. 4 items. Photocopy of chapter titled "The Times: Los Angeles and New York," from The Elite Press by John C. Merrill, 1968. Photocopy of chapter titled "Expanding Empire of a Newspaper," from Los Angeles--a Profile, by W.W. Robinson. Complete issue of The Nation, 1/15/1968, containing article "Los Angeles Times: Most Likely to Succeed," by Phil Kirby, and a tear sheet of same article. 5 items. Two copies of Harper's Magazine article of 12/1969, titled "The Los Angeles Times," by John Corry. Two news clippings, one titled "Pulitzer Prize Winner Pays Tribute to Times," the other "How Soviet Journalists Rate U.S. Newspapers." Clipping from L.A. Free Press, dated only "1969," titled "Los Angeles Times as Underground," giving the leftist newspaper's reaction to "the L.A. Times editorial of June 1st." The writer concludes, "Considerable changes must have taken place in the editorial offices of the Times...(noting) the increased liberal format of the new L.A. Times."
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