Manuscripts

Memos - Editorial

Description: Approx. 55 items: memos on various subjects, many addresses to "All staff," or "Staff memo." Subjects include: hiring and development ; retraction demands ; political coverage ; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1981 - 1988
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Editorial Auditor

Manuscripts

6 items. Memos regarding hiring, promotions or pay for Ray Kendall (music staff), Ayn Rand, William Frye, Hall Syndicate (for Feiffer), the Home Line column, Natl. Newspaper Syndicate's "Josephine" comic.

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Memos - Editorial

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: memos on various subjects, from time frame 1965 - 1980. Included: 12-pp. memorandum prepared by Richard Rhodes after interviewing LAT staffer Stuart Loory, who was arrested during the Democratic National Convention of summer 1968 as he was covering an anti-war protest led by activist Dick Gregory ; packet of material headed "Loory's story on President's State of the World message of 2/26/1971 ; etc.

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Departments - Editorial - Mirror Newsletter

Manuscripts

6 items: six examples of LAT Hiring & Development Newsletter, "Mirror." Headlines/subjects: 8/1994, "The Voices of Unity '94," on diversity in the newsroom and coverage of people of color; 11/1994, "A challenge for news editors," pagination; 1/1995, "A Team Effort," on coverage of the Orange County fiscal crisis; 3/1995, "Foreign put to test by quake," on earthquake in Japan; 4/1995, "The MetPro Experience; 5/1995, "Loosening Lips - the art of the interview."

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Times Marketing memo - Circulation

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items: incomplete collection of "Times Marketing Memo--Circulation," most are from 1988, with several from 1/1989. Information in the memos includes "Home Delivery" and "Sales Copy" figures, plus "Total Net Circulation," "New Subscriptions," plus revenue information.

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Sports

Manuscripts

Approx. 60 items: memos, reports, tear sheets, lists and other material related to LAT Sports section and its coverage. Includes: stinging 4-pp. memo from Sports Editor Bill Dwyre to his staff on "Sports Section Errors" (3/16/1984) ; memo and package, "Proposal for Monday Special Sports Section" (9/21/1984) ; collection of USA Today Sports sections (3/1983) ; other issues - "outside writing, Olympics planning, etc.

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Editorial Staff Memoranda - Reporters' Notes

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items. Subjects include: teamster involvement at the Herald-Examiner; proposed Exhibition-Convention facility and sites under consideration; coverage of various newspapers of the Riverside and Imperial county region; expected suspension of publication by L.A. Examiner; possibility of Fox Hills Country Club being taken over by L.A. as municipal golf courses; flap over Emily Phillips, an anti-communist activist; memo on possible profile on O.W. "Dick" Richard, a successful Newport Beach supermarket owner, wheeler-dealer and community activist; etc.

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