Tiffany Shackelford is the Executive Director of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, which represents 120 alternative news organizations across the U.S. and Canada. Previously, she served as Executive Director of Capitolbeat, the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, a group she helped create in 1999. She also served as director of communications and marketing at Phase2 Technology in Virginia, where she also oversaw the publishing practice. She created and organizes the Washington D.C. area Online News Association group and was the 2008 co-chair for the ONA annual conference.
