Time Capsule Press
Background
Time Capsule Press is a publishing imprint that specializes in the creation of books and other printed material using the archival resources of newspapers, magazines and photo agencies, and transforming that content in a context that would be of interest to consumers. Founded in late, 2008 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Time Capsule Press plans to launch its first title, the Los Angeles Lakers: 50 Amazing Years in the City of Angels, in October 2009.
Narda Zacchino - Editor and Publisher
Narda Zacchino is a writer/editor with more than three decades of experience as a journalist at the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a co-founder and editor/publisher of Time Capsule Press.
During her 31 years at the Los Angeles Times (1970-‘01), Zacchino was a reporter, government and politics editor, Sacramento bureau chief, editor of the Orange County edition, deputy managing editor and associate editor and vice president as well as an op-ed columnist in her role as readers’ representative. Her reporting won awards and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She was co-creator of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, begun in 1995, which continues as one of the standout cultural events in Southern California and one of the biggest literary events in the country.
While at the Chronicle, where Zacchino was deputy editor (2001-‘07), she created The San Francisco Chronicle Press imprint, under which she edited three books: San Francisco Century: A City Rises from the Ruins of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire; Mystical San Francisco, and The Working Cook. She had previously edited books on the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Raiders in partnership with Triumph Books. At the newspaper she helped oversee the newsroom and projects involving coordination with the business side of the newspaper and launched several new ventures including a weekly entertainment section.
Zacchino left the Chronicle to collaborate with Mary Tillman on Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, a book published in April 2008 about the life and death of Tillman’s son Pat, a former pro football player who was killed by fratricide in Afghanistan in April 2004. After finishing that book, in October, 2007, Zacchino was an editor and researcher on a book about the U.S. military-industrial complex, The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America, written by Robert Scheer. She also has been a part-time editor at the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley. In addition, she is an editorial and business consultant at Truthdig, a daily news website, and The Ultimate Sports Guide, a Bay Area sports magazine.
Zacchino, a four-time Pulitzer Prize judge, is a member of the American Society of Newspaper editors; the International Women’s Media Foundation based in Washington, DC, where she was a board member for eleven years; the Bay Area Sports Marketing Association; and The Trusteeship, the Los Angeles Chapter of the International Women’s Forum.
Zacchino graduated from UCLA with a BA degree in English and earned a certificate in the Times Mirror Leadership Institute’s business education program, taught by members of the USC business school faculty.
Dickson Louie - President and CEO
Dickson Louie is president and CEO of Time Capsule Press, a book-publishing imprint that focuses on the creation of books from archival material.
Louie is also principal of Louie & Associates, a San Francisco Bay Area consulting firm that provides strategic planning, marketing research, and competitive analysis support to start-ups, nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies. Clients of Louie & Associates include the San Francisco Chronicle, Monitor Executive Development, BanksBrown, and the Maynard Institute.
Immediately before resuming his own consulting practice in June 2006 after a four-year hiatus, Dickson was Advertising Business Manager and Director of Strategic Planning for the San Francisco Chronicle from 2002 to 2006, where he helped launch The San Francisco Chronicle Press imprint, 96 Hours and the Friday East Bay section.
From 1984 to 1995, he was a member of the management team of the Los Angeles Times and its parent company, Times Mirror. As a member of the circulation department's senior management, Louie was responsible for management reporting, subscriber retention analysis and department operational reviews in his capacity as the newspaper's circulation planning manager. With the closing of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in November 1989, Dickson drafted the initial business plan that helped make the Los Angeles Times the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the United States in March 1990. Dickson also served as business development and planning manager for the San Jose Mercury News from March 1998 to January 1999. In this role, he was responsible for the development of several new product and revenue initiatives, including the launch of Viet Mercury, a Vietnamese-language newspaper, to serve the growing Vietnamese-American community in the Silicon Valley.
Between tenures with the Los Angeles Times and the San Jose Mercury News, Louie was appointed as a research associate at the Harvard Business School for the 1996-97 and 1997-98 academic years. Dickson has written more than 20 case studies for the second year MBA Marketspace course, including those on Amazon.com, CBS Evening News, New York Times Electronic Media Company, QVC, and Monster.com. He is also a contributing author of two textbooks, e-Commerce (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2000) and Introduction to E-Commerce (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2001), and has been a guest lecturer at the University of California at Irvine, Northwestern University, Harvard Law School, and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Dickson, a certified public accountant, is a graduate of California State University, Hayward, where he received his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in business administration, with a minor in journalism, in 1980, and of the University of Chicago, where he received his MBA degree in 1984 with concentrations in finance, marketing and statistics.
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