Manuscripts
Suburban Sections
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Suburban Sections
Manuscripts
Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, one handwritten list of O.C. Revenue, Expense & Profit [estimates]. Subjects include: memo with list of "new reporters"--Feb. 1957--and their salaries (of special note is the name George Cotliar); "women's news" in the Zones; extension of OC and SFV and SGV coverage, i.e. more days per week (1961); many memos related to pros and cons, costs and profits of expanding coverage and publication for OC, the Valleys, greater Long Beach, Ventura, etc.; memos and other material related specifically to OC Section going daily in October 1963; glowing letters from Pasadena City Librarian (Marjorie Donaldson) and Huntington Library's Dorothy Bowen related to coverage in Fall 1963; rental figures for various Zone offices; etc.
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"Zones" issues
Manuscripts
Approx. 12 items: large folded map of Greater L.A. Circulation zone boundaries, 1958 ; 14-pp. report, "The Suburban (Zone) Sections of the Los Angeles Times, 1957 - 1966" ; 10-pp. report, "Daily Orange County Zones at Costa Mesa" ; 14-pp. report, "Readership Study of LOS ANGELES SUBURBAN NEWSPAPERS, INC. (8 - 10/1963) by Facts Consolidated" ; multi-page, spiral bound report (yellow cover) - "Suburban Sections Report" (2/1962) ; multi-page spiral bound report (blue cover) - "An analysis of the Suburban Sections with a proposed immediate & extended program, 1963 - 1964" ; more.
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Circulation
Manuscripts
2 items: 2 spreadsheets, a circulation numbers for "Mirror-News Regular and Zone Editions..." (9/19/1957) ; clip from Among Ourselves, 7/1961, "Brightening view of Mirror circulation."
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Suburban Sections (Zones) (1 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Materials include: 44-pp. spiral-bound report by Ron Haggart, Canadian author of uncertain affiliation, "The Los Angeles Times and the Suburbs," April 1967; various clippings/copies of suburban section and "Among Ourselves" stories; large packet (50+ pp.) of charts and analysis of LAT, OC edition, and suburban editions operations; assorted maps, charts and statistical information related to these operations, from the 1950s to the 1970s; copy of article from American Journalism Review, 11/1993, "A Zone of Their Own" on the new zoned section covering "central city"; three-pp. report,"Development of (LAT) Zone Sections and Editions," in the form of a chronology; two-pp. report titled "Westside Section History" (3/31/88); article, probably from "Among Ourselves" newsletter, titled "Zone offices pull together a decentralized area," (no date seen). Split into two folders.
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Suburban Sections (Zones) (2 of 2)
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Materials include: 44-pp. spiral-bound report by Ron Haggart, Canadian author of uncertain affiliation, "The Los Angeles Times and the Suburbs," April 1967; various clippings/copies of suburban section and "Among Ourselves" stories; large packet (50+ pp.) of charts and analysis of LAT, OC edition, and suburban editions operations; assorted maps, charts and statistical information related to these operations, from the 1950s to the 1970s; copy of article from American Journalism Review, 11/1993, "A Zone of Their Own" on the new zoned section covering "central city"; three-pp. report,"Development of (LAT) Zone Sections and Editions," in the form of a chronology; two-pp. report titled "Westside Section History" (3/31/88); article, probably from "Among Ourselves" newsletter, titled "Zone offices pull together a decentralized area," (no date seen). Split into two folders.
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Suburban Zones/Sections Report
Manuscripts
2 items: "cover" memo dated 10/15/1987 - "Summary of Zones" ; approx. 20-pp. report, "Suburban Sections & Editions," with charts.
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