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Articles index, 1881 - 1899
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Articles index, 1881 - 1898
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Approx. 30 photocopied sheets. Notecard entries with dates of articles related to LAT events, facts and statistics from the period 1881 - 1898.
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Articles
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10 items: LAT clip, 2/28/1986, "Times Mirror to end its Gateway Videotex Service"; original + two copies, Wall Street Journal, 3/4/1986, "Times Mirror shrinks operations in major shift"; LAT clip, 5/1/1986, "Times Mirror restructures - new president is appointed"; LAT clip, 5/23/1986, "Times Mirror cautious on plans for Media Purchases"; LAT clip, 5/29/1986, Times Mirror to purchase Sun papers in Baltimore"; LAT clip, 6/27/1986, "Times Mirror to sell Dallas newspaper for $110 million"; LAT clip, 7/24/1986, "Sale of assets helps push Times Mirror net up 114%"; tear sheet, cover + 4 sheet article, Forbes, 10/20/1986, "The Chandler's stewards."
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"Articles on, 1989 - 1992 "
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Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings on women in media jobs--hiring, promotions, salaries. Two copies--1 tear sheet, 1 photocopied--of long Wall St. Journal article, "Illusory Monopoly," on LAT. Clips on Times executives Norman Chandler, Tom Johnson, David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey. NY Times article, "Soul Searching at Los Angeles Times," 8/10, on LAT "killing" a negative story about Mayor Tom Bradley. Long article from L.A. Business, 4/1989, on L.A. Daily News "taking on" LAT. 7 items. Several news clips on LAT circulation and Times Mirror profits. Photocopied article from Smart (mag) on LAT Editor Shelby Coffey. Multi-page photocopy of article from New Yorker, "Letter from Los Angeles," on the history of the Los Angeles Times and the Chandler family. 4 items: long article from L.A. Weekly, 8/9, "Times A-Changing--veteran reporters sent down to the sticks"; article from California (mag), 5/1991, "L.A.'s Troubled Times--when a bad month happens to a good paper"; article from Time (mag), 4/15, "Hello, Sweetheart! Get Me Remake," on David Laventhol, Shelby Coffey and a "refurbished" LAT; Time article, 2/11, mentioning LAT. 2 items: Article tear sheet from Los Angeles Magazine (date ?), highly critical of LAT; article from USA Today Money section, 3/13, "Turbulent Times in L.A.--Suddenly, costs, morale are problems."
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Articles on, 1950 - 1959
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Approx. 20 items. Magazine and newspaper clippings on various subjects: regular, same-day delivery of LAT to Sondrestrom Air Base, Greenland in 1958; LAT editorial titled, "...Innuendo Not News"; LAT report on "sane elder citizens" being committed to State mental hospitals; complete issue of Time (mag.) for 7/15/1957, featuring cover story on the history of Los Angeles and The Times; second copy of same cover story clipped out; issue of Los Angeles Underground, with cover story titled, "Bonelli's 'Billion Dollar Blackjack - The story of corruption and the Los Angeles Times'"; etc. Issue of The Southland Almanac ((2/1954) in plastic sleeve (with card reading, "Article[s] about L.A. Times - Pg. 2, 4 and 5. All material is negative towards LAT ).
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Articles
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6 items - clips in plastic sleeves; LAT clip, 2/13/1985, "Times Mirror profits hit record $232 million in '84' "; LAT clip, 3/7/1985, "Times Mirror names Erburu chairman to succeed Otis Chandler"; LAT clip, 3/23/1985, "Gannett bids for 13.8% of Cowles," TM mentioned; LAT clip, 5/23/1985, "Times Mirror cautious on plans for media purchases"; LAT clip, 7/2/1985, "Times Mirror considering reincorporation"; 3-pp. article copy, Business Week, 11/4/1985, "Times Mirror wakes up with a throbbing hangover...paying dearly for ill-advised diversification."
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Articles on, 1970 - 1974
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7 items. Police Chief Edward M. Davis accused LAT of "attempting to generate and contrive news"; survey of newspaper publishers rates LAT second nationally (after NY Times); Saturday Review article praises "the Los Angeles Times, whose rise in both quantity and quality of news coverage during the last decade has been spectacular"; tear sheet of Los Angeles (mag) article titled "Is Los Angeles a three-newspaper kind of town?"; 27-pp. photocopy of manuscript titled "The Los Angeles Times: powerful voice in west coast journalism," by John Poppy; article from New York (mag) titled "Will Big Otis try to cross the East River?" by Edwin Diamond; etc. 9 items. Articles from various sources on the rise of LAT (since 1960) and leadership of Otis Chandler, from Editor & Publisher, Chicago Journalism Review, Business Week, and two foreign language publications (Russian? - Polish?). 3 items. Complete issue of The Bulletin (ASNE) 2/1973 - "Special Issue: The press under fire," includes essay by William F. Thomas, Editor, LAT, titled "How did we get into this terrible fix"; AP brief headlined "Times Brushes off Newsprint Strike"; AP article headlined "Sources dwindling," on confidential news sources and the courts. Approx. 12 items. Several news clippings from papers in Chicago, Santa Barbara, etc., reporting "war of words" between Union Oil Pres. Fred Hartley and LAT, NY Times and Wash. Post; Rex Reed column in Beverly Hills Discloser, titled "...Dull Editor runs The Times"; two copies of reprint from Advertising Age, "L.A. Times: Giant in big media jungle"; two Time (mag) articles mentioning LAT; complete Winter 1974 issue of The Review of Southern California Journalism, including articles titled "The forgotten history of the Los Angeles Times," "The frame-up of Mooney and Billings" and "The book the L.A. Times tried to kill."
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