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Don Clark - Policy / Long term strategy
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Policy - Cost Containment Strategies
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Approx. 10 items. Material includes: 2 small cardboard flyers with information on LAT "Pull Together Sweepstakes Prizes"; 7/18/1988 Tom Johnson memo on "a series of steps designed to reduce expenses"; 8/11/1988 follow-up memo to previous Johnson memo by Tom Boswell announcing "Pull Together Sweepstakes" to generate cost-cutting suggestions from all LAT employees; related cost-containment memos; memo (7/18/1988) on Expense Reduction Videotape to be viewed by LAT employees; 9/19/1988 memo on "organizational changes" from Dick Schlosberg.
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Clark, Don Files
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Don Clark was Director of Advertising in the 1970s-1990s. These five folders including correspondence and reports, to and from Clark, regarding marketing, locating executives for hire, and responses to reader complaints about specific ads. Date range is 1983-1991.
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Cook, Don
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4 items: 23-pp. transcript of "Taping with Don Cook," 1/14/1975. Subjects include: Cook's wide-ranging duties as Paris correspondent and European "diplomatic beat" writer (pp. 1 - 2) ; the Common Market (pp. 6) ; French news outlets making use of Los Angeles Times-Wash. Post News Service (pp. 9) ; Cook's memories and experiences in general on covering France and Europe for a decade (pp. 10+) ; letter, 4/4/1975, to Jim Bassett from Don Cook, remarking on the interview transcript and also on Bassett's book, Commander Prince, USN ; cover letter, 4/10/1975, to Cook from Bob Gottlieb asking questions in prep for writing his book on Los Angeles Times,and 3-pp. report, n.d., from Cook to Gottlieb, answering the questions ; letter, 4/16/1975, to Jim Bassett from Don Cook to accompany info about the Gottlieb Q&A correspondence (Cook writes that Gottlieb "seems...to be a bit naive to be writing a book about journalism."
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Executive retreats
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Approx. 45 items: memos, reports, charts and other material related to planning and reporting on executive retreats, 1986. Notable (lengthy) reports: 17-pp. "Notes of Executive Retreat (10/29/1986)" ; 11-pp. "Outline of Marketing Strategy" ; 10-pp. letter/planning statement from Don Clark to Tom Johnson, dated 12/15/1986 ; 30+ pp. packet, Subject - "Marketing Strategy Meeting," 12/19/1986.
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Management Bulletins
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Approx. 70 items: mostly routine bulletins on periodic or annual events, some mid-level promotion notices. Notable items: bulletin of 11/13/1987 naming Richard T. Schlosberg III as President and Chief Operating Officer of LAT ; bulletin of 11/17/1987 stating "Construction of our new 1400-space employee parking garage is about to begin... Ground breaking is scheduled for Jan. 4, 1988 ; bulletin, 10/20/1987, announcing the death of Vance Stickell, the Exec. VP of Marketing, LAT employee for 39 years.
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Departments - Employee Relations - Vacation Policy
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7 items: LAT bulletins and memos - 6/29/1987, on new paycheck format showing unused vacation days / personal days; 6/30/1987, on new vacation policy, 7/2/1987, on vacation policy, as well as several more on same subject from 1988 and 1989.
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