New York Times Company records. John B. Oakes papers 1952-1995 1970-1990

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New York Times Company records. John B. Oakes papers 1952-1995 1970-1990

Journalist John B. Oakes (1913-2001) was an editorial writer and editor who worked for from 1946 to 1993, and who is credited with developing the modern op-ed page. This collection contains some of Oakes's office files primarily from the 1970s and 1980s, and consists of internal correspondence and memoranda concerning the Editorial Department, as well as copies of speeches and a file of op-ed page articles and notes by Oakes. The New York Times Times

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Oakes, John B. (John Bertram), 1913-2001

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED John B. Oakes, journalist, editor, and environmentalist was born in Philadelphia in 1913 to George Washington Ochs-Oakes and Bertie Gans Ochs. He attended Princeton University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Following graduation, he started as a reporter on the Trenton Times and the Trenton State Gazette, and in 1937, joined the staff of the Washington Post as a police reporter, but quickly moved to covering both houses of Congress. He was drafted into the...

Curtis, Charlotte, 1928-1987

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Curtis was born in Chicago, the daughter of George Morris and Lucile (Atcherson) Curtis, and received a B.A. from Vassar College in 1950. She was a reporter for the Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (1950-1961) as well as an English teacher (1952-1954) and radio commentator (1959-1960) in Columbus. She became a reporter for The New York Times and then family/style editor (1965-1973) and associate editor and editor of the op-ed page (1974- ). She was the author of First Lady (1963) and Assignment (1974). ...

Rosenthal, A.M. (Abraham Michael), 1922-2006

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The New York Times Foreign Desk records is a collection of files maintained by the New York Times Company on the work and accomplishment of the foreign reporting staff, the operation of the foreign news bureaus around the world, and the process of gathering and editing the news from abroad. Although the coverage of international news by the Times is as old as the newspaper itself, the Foreign Desk records only cover the period beginning with the late 1940s up to the mid-1990s. ...

New York Times Company.

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The National Desk, also referred to as the National News Desk or the Telegraph Desk, is the department responsible for the development and presentation of The New York Times' reporting on the United States. At the time of these records' creation, it was one of three main news desks at The Times, along with the Metropolitan Desk and the Foreign Desk. Staff members include the national-news editor who headed the department, news editors in New York City, and editors and correspondents in the vario...