Manuscripts

WEST - Initial PR

Description: 7 items: memos a tear sheet and copies of a press release related to the launch of West (mag.).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1965
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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WEST - Initial promotion brochure

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: correspondence and reports related to the launch of WEST (mag.). Includes: charts of advertising rates ; news releases ; etc.

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Informational packets - TV Channels, WEST, YOU

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Info packet for "You" / Info packet for WEST. Light blue folder contains memos, form letters and press releases related to the launch of TV Channels magazine, a Sunday supplement of LAT (1960).

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Articles

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6 items: LAT clip, 9/1/1989, "David Laventhol named Publisher of The Times" ; article from Manhattan, inc (mag), 2/1990, a profile of Laventhol, "The quiet newspaper warrior, pp. 82 ; tear sheet from Los Angeles (mag), "The 30 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles," with Laventhol at #3 ; 15-pp. article copied from Buzz (mag), 2/1994, "Who was David Laventhol?" with introductory blurb describing Laventhol as having "the manners of a recluse and the soul of a salesman" ; 9-pp. packet with LAT, L.A. Daily News, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal and O.C. Register articles of 12/3/1993 on the resignation (citing illness) of Laventhol ; American Society of Newspaper Editors press release, ?/1994, "ASNE announces two new $10,000 prizes for deadline reporting," Laventhol mentioned etc.

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Newspapers - Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram

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2 items: 1975 advertisement for Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach), headed "Suburban papers...many thrive" ; tear sheet, Time (mag), 12/27/1976, "California split...dog bites dog."

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Newspapers - Los Angeles

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Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.

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Employees - Dosti, Rose

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Approx. 10 items: LAT clips from 1987 and 1988, on the Billionaire Boys Club murder case. Arben Dosti, son of Times writer Rose Dosti, was one of several young men convicted in those years of murder; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 5/1986, "The Deadly Pied Piper of Beverly Hills"; tear sheet, L.A. Weekly, 7/25/1986, "Inside the Billionaire Boys Club."

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