Manuscripts

Promotion department request - N.A.B.J. Convention

Description: Project log, notes, and copy of the finished product for the Promotion department's special feature in the Times for the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Los Angeles, 1990.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1990
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Promotion department request - calendar idea

Manuscripts

In-house service request from Susan McRae, Director of Promotion for use of original issues of Sunday magazine for calendar to help kick off up-sized Times Sunday magazine, 1990; photocopies of Times Mirror annual reports for background material, 1899-1906; Los Angeles magazine article on the size-up of Los Angeles Times magazine, 1987.

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Departments - Promotion

Manuscripts

3 items: 3 Sprint / LAT calling cards (30 min. free long distance) "Mister, here's a real paper - Los Angeles Times"; 1 Management Bulletin, 4/4/1989, on promotion of Susan McRae to Director of Promotion; copy of LAT article, 2/9/1990, "Disney orders theatres to drop on-screen ads."

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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 - Promotion and Public Relations

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: clipping, LAT, 1/17/1926, "Words of fire blaze in skies...Read The Times appears in huge electric letters"; article copy, Among Ourselves, 5/1964, "Promotion, research win 3 E&P awards"; clip, 1/14/1980, M.A.C. Western Advertising News, "L.A. Times uncorks consumer effort"; dupe of previous article in ADWEEK / West; copy of ad from Advertising Age, 8/16/1984, "Which newspaper provided...the best coverage of the Democratic Nat. Convention? - The L.A. Times..."; packet of AIDS coverage material in plastic sleeve - form letter signed by Tom Johnson, 2/17/1987, reprint from Among Ourselves - "Misconceptions about AIDS...", 8-pp. reprint of The Surgeon General's Report on (AIDS) 12/7/1986; Management Bulletin, 11/2/1988 memo on changes in various departments, including JoEllen Kitchen appointment as Director of Public Relations; 2 copies of brochure, "How to get your press release into the right hands at the Los Angeles Times," 3/1990.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Special Events

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Materials include: LAT clips, 7/1958, on U.S. Grand Prix, Management Bulletins and Employee Bulletins, 1983 - 1989, on LAT sponsored events, the Times/Nissan Grand Prix, the LAT/Budweiser 500, Times/TAC International Summer Games, LAT/Datsun Grand Prix of EnduranceCountryFest '88 and Times Ram Charity Game; brochure for Times/Eagle Indoor Games, 1990; 3-pp. "Tentative 1991 Special Events Calendar."

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Departments - Information Systems

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: memo, 3/25/1977, reading, in part, "Effective today, the name of the Data Processing Department has been changed to Information Systems Department"; two LAT brochures, "Information Systems," (3/1978); memo, 9/17/1975, "Organizational Changes" (on name changes w/i Systems & Programming department; tabloid-sized issue, 12/6/1975, The Pac-Times Presenter, a joint publication of Pacific Telephone and LAT, describing the development of "a complete telecommunications system" by PacTel for LAT; article, Among Ourselves, 12/1949 (copy), "Tabulating Department's Mechanical Brains know all the answers"; article copy, 10/1977, Among Ourselves, "New Computer Center in Service"; booklet, 24-pp., 11/1961, The Corner Cut, L.A. Chapter National Machine Accountants Association, lead article, "History in Headlines," on LAT; Information Systems bulletin, 3-pp., 6/13/1989, "Personal Computer Security," 10-pp. sheaf, "Information Systems Bulletin--In-house personal computer software training"; 2-pp. memo, "Communications Services," 9/11/1990; memo, 11/7/1990, "Special Services Mail."

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Promotion department request - N.A.B.J. Convention

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