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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Jonathan Gold Leaving L.A. Weekly for L.A. Times

Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold is leaving the L.A. Weekly for the Los Angeles Times. (FULL STORY)
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Sales Webinar: Strategies for Building Online Revenue

Join Louise Phelps from Phelps Cutler Media Associates for a webinar that will dive into effective strategies for growing online display revenue. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  Association News

The Media Oxpecker: Pew Digital Advertising Report 'Unsurprising but Damning'

What can we learn from the Pew Research Center's report on Digital Advertising and News? A Women's Media Center report reminds us that media is overwhelmingly male, and getting maler. And get ready for the Tablet Generation. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  Media Roundup
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