Narda Zacchino

Senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy

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Senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy; co-founder of Time Capsule Press; former deputy editor at the San Francisco Chronicle; 30-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times, she launched the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books; wife of Robert Scheer

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The California comeback

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