Categories: OLD Media Moves

ACBJ’s senior VP of digital ops leaves for domain name provider

Jason Silverstein, the senior vice president of digital operations at American City Business Journals, has left the business newspaper publisher for a job at Rightside, a domain name service provider.

He will be Rightside’s vice president of product and engineering.

At ACBJ, Silverstein’s teams developed and supported over 300 products, including Web sites, mobile apps, email newsletters and the internal applications that made them possible.

These digital products helped ACBJ grow public site traffic 317 percent over the last five years. In addition, Silverstein rebuilt enterprise-scale commerce and content platforms that increased the publisher’s transactional revenue by 200 percent and reduced administrative production work by over 100 man-weeks per year across 43 newsrooms.

Silverstein was vice president for interactive media at The Charlotte Observer; he also served in a number of roles at Yahoo, including chief of staff/director of business operations in the engineering organization; and he was a co-founder of Internet SportsStations, an online media company, as well as an editor and online video producer for the National Basketball Association.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.