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Historical vignettes on various topics and episodes in the history of Times Mirror prepared between 1986-1993.
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Approx. 30 items: letters, lists, tear sheets and completed forms related to the CNPA "Better Newspapers Contest," 1991. Notable items include: "1991 CNPA Better Newspapers Contest, Alpha. list of Weekly Newspaper Winners," 4-pp. ; "1991 CNPA Better Newspapers Contest, Alpha list of Daily Newspaper Winners," 5-pp. ; complete issue (12-pp.), California Publisher Special Edition - 1991 Better Newspapers Contest
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Correspondence from Dan Lewis regarding past newspapers in Los Angeles with list, 1995; article "Newspapers of Los Angeles: The First Fifty Years 1851-1900" by Henry Winfred Splitter, 1963; book Untapped Sources America's Newspaper Archives and Histories by Jon Vanden Heuvel, 1991.
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Three items comprising seventeen pages pertaining to the American Society of Newspapers Editors, containing letters, memos, receipts, attendance list, check request, and conference information.
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Approx. 45 items: selection of newspaper stories, from LAT and other area newspapers, as diverse as California Publisher and Temple City Times, on the history and final closing of the Daily News (L.A.) in 1954. Notable items: original letter, 7/18/1924, from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. to Cordelia St. Clair of Hollywood, on subject of common stock in the newspaper ; article copy, Frontier (mag), 2/1955, "The Daily News and why it died" ; article copy, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1970, "No news today...how Los Angeles lost a daily" ; original tear sheet and one copy, Westways, 12/1974, "Daily News folds! ; LAT tear sheet, 12/26/1984, featuring article on Daily News by Patt Morrison, "After 30 years, an EXTRA!" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/11/1985, "Jack Kent Cooke buys Daily News for $176 million" ; ?/1986 tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "The Return of Jack Kent Cooke" ; LAT clip, 8/21/1990, "Editorial employees picket Daily News."
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Small gray binder contains above report. A list of participating newspapers is taped on inside front cover. (Binder removed, cover retained.)
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