Manuscripts

Employees - Lewis, Hugh A. (Bud)

Description: Approx. 10 items: series of article copies reflecting Lewis' assignments and promotions between The Times, The Mirror News and the Herald-Examiner during the 1950s and 1960s. His obituary, which ran 8/17/1964, read in part, "Mr. Lewis, a journalist for more than 50 years, was a former publisher and editor of The Mirror News, editor at the time of his death of the Herald-Examiner and a former city editor of The Times."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1957
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.

Editorial - Lewis, Hugh A

Manuscripts

3 items: letter, n.d., from Ticker Freeman of Sherman Oaks to Mirror "Editor" ; letter, 11/18/1958, answering previous letter, and written by Hugh A. Lewis (Editor, The Mirror), in which Lewis responds to Freeman's complaint that The Mirror, a so-called "nonpartisan" paper has endorsed only Republicans in the coming election ; rough draft of letter, 12/29/1958, from halewis (sic) to "Mr. Bresler," responding to a number of complaints about The Mirror's content.

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Employees - Bellows, James

Manuscripts

7 items: article, Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "James Bellows joins Times (as Associate Editor)"; 10/28/1966, Otis Chandler's memo on appointment of Bellows as LAT Associate Editor; article copy, New West, 1/16/1978, "What's black and blue...", on Jim Bellow's becoming editor of L.A. Herald-Examiner ; tear sheet, 8/1/1978, Esquire, "Can Jim Bellows Save...(Herald-Exam.)"; tear sheet, LAT, 11/20/1981, "Editor of Herald Examiner resigns..."; tear sheet, LAT, 7/13/1983, "Bellows will develop a TV magazine for ABC"; tear sheet, LAT, 10/13/1988, "USA Today TV sets different direction";

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Employees - Coffey, Shelby

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: tear sheet, Herald-Examiner, 4/5/1988, "L.A.Times appoints Shelby Coffey to new executive editor post"; tear sheet, NY Times, 4/6/1988, "Los Angeles Times names heir apparent to the Editor's job"; Employee Bulletin, 4/5/1988, with Tom Johnson's announcement of Coffey selection; various publications' reporting on above appointment and other career moves, incl. L.A. Weekly, The American Editor, etc; multi-page tear sheet, Esquire, 12/1988, "Shelby Coffey, Oozing Charm"; approx. 25 -pp. transcript of Coffey's remarks, including Q&A, at LAT Washington Bureau, 6/10/1988;

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Employees - Laro, Arthur

Manuscripts

4 items: two newspaper clips on the appointment of Arthur Laro to be Executive Editor of The Mirror News (both from 3/1960); additional copy a news brief on the same event, 3/15/1960, "Noted editor to join Mirror"; Mirror News reprint, 4/18/1960, "New team--with the arrival today of Arthur Laro...our new management team...is complete."

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Mirror & Examiner

Manuscripts

In 1962, both the now Mirror-News and the Hearst-owned Herald-Examiner ceased publication. All dated 1962.

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

Manuscripts

9 items. Transcripts on various topics, including: Bruce Herschenson (KABC-radio) savages LAT -"inaccurate...misinformation....Robots and computers....the L.A. Times has reached that point"; David Reavill reports on Times Mirror earnings, mentioning newsprint costs and TM's lumber mills; several briefs on downtown area blackout (10/1983) during which LAT printed Herald-Examiner and La Opinion; long Michael Jackson interview (KABC-radio) with Robert Rawitch, Suburban Editor of LAT;

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Employees - Lewis, Hugh A. (Bud)

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