AAN Staff


Executive Director: Tiffany Shackelford

Tiffany Shackelford joined AAN as Executive director in November, 2010. Previously, she was the director of communications and marketing at Phase2 Technology in Virginia, where she also oversaw the publishing practice. She also served until recently as Executive Director of Capitolbeat, the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, a group she helped create in 1999. (Full Bio)

Director of Meetings and Special Projects: Debra Silvestrin

Debra Silvestrin has been with AAN since Aug. 1995. Her previous positions encompassed meeting planning and marketing communications in many forms, from international cultural exchange to corporate hotel programs. (Full Bio)

Editor / Advertising Director: Jason Zaragoza

Jason Zaragoza is the editor of AltWeeklies.com, where he selects the best and most click-baity content to feature from AAN's member publications. He also runs the AAN News blog, which covers the triumphs, exploits, criminal activity, and promiscuous job-hopping of the alt-weekly industry. (Full Bio)


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Restructuring at the Village Voice

Voice Media Group is making staffing changes at the Village Voice. (FULL STORY)
VMG Press Release  |  Press Releases

"We sell community. We sell connection. That's what a good alt-weekly can still provide to its readership."new

Christine Oreskovich, publisher of The Coast in Halifax, says that strong community ties have helped her publication thrive.
Marketing Magazine  |  Industry News

Media Oxpecker: May 17, 2013

Breaking News introduces sponsored content; the real significance of location-based data; and the New Yorker's new tool for anonymous tipsters. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  Media Roundup
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