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California Newspaper Publishers Association
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Newspaper Publisher Associations
Manuscripts
9 items: reports, LAT clips, and other material on newspaper operations locally and nationwide during the mid and late 20th century. Notable items: tear sheets from CNPA Magazine (Calif. Newspaper Publishers Assn.), 8/1938, "Success marks first year of editorial association" ; speech transcript, delivered at California Newspaper Publishers Assn. meeting, San Francisco, 2/6/1959, "The newspaper of 1970," by J. Edward Murray ; booklet, "75th Anniversary, American Newspaper Publishers Assn., 1887-1962" (A brief history) ; multi-page listing, "CNPA Daily Newspapers - (award) Winners, 1981."
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Newspapers - California
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4 items: tear sheet, California Publisher, 2/1963, "California newspaper history shows patterns of courage and leadership" ; article copy, The Californians, 9 & 10/1983, "The rise of the McClatchys and other California newspaper dynasties" ; clip from Fedco Reporter, 8/1994, "California's first newspaper" ; 5-pp. copied from California Almanac (year not seen), "Chptr. 20 - Communications," including a listing of "Newspapers issued since the 1800s."
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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Contests
Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items. Materials include: copies of LAT clips, 1922, 1926 - "New 'idea contest' for motion picture subjects started by De Mille and The Times," ""Winners in Times-De Mille film contest are announced"; 4-pp. News Release, 11/12/1987, "Times sponsors 'Write Stuff' contest at Dorothy Kirby Center"; photo & caption, ca. 1920, "Hoisting the prize autos to (2nd fl.) of The Times building"; article copy, "Start today in great popularity campaign," ca. 1920; tear sheet for 1989 "Tangle Towns" contest; clips of other contests, 1904, 1926.
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Newspapers - Miscellaneous
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Approx. 30 items: selected clips, copies, etc, from LAT, from magazines and from other newspapers on the newspaper "scene" in Los Angeles. Notable items: chapter copied from book, Jazz Journalism...story of the tabloid newspapers, 1938 ; 17-pp. report (plus charts) from Princeton U. (in green folder), The Public appraises the newspaper [1958] ; article copied from Saturday Review, 5/13/1961, "Rating the American newspaper" ; reprint from Journalism Quarterly, Summer 1961, "The changing Sunday U.S. newspaper" ; 16-pp. report, William Hachten, U. of Wisconsin, 8/1961, "The future of Sunday newspapers" ; tear sheet, Newsweek, 11/29/1965, "What's wrong with newspapers?" ; complete issue, Rand Research Review, Spring 1985, cover story, "High technology and the newspaper industry" ; tear sheet, Forbes, 2/20/1989, "Are newspapers losing their audience? / Citizen Kane meets Adam Smith" ; tear sheet, Wall Street Journal, 6/23/1989, major article on that newspaper's Centennial, "One newspaper's century ...the inside story"; postcard of the Newsboy Fountain in Great Barrington, MA erected by William L. Brown (held controlling interest in the New York Daily News), 1985.
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Newspapers - Los Angeles
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Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.
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California Newspaper Publishers Association
Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items: correspondence related to California Newspaper Publishers Assn.
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