Lizzie Schiffman Tufano

Lizzie joined Block Club Chicago after nearly five years at the Chicago Sun-Times, where she oversaw digital strategy in the newsroom as Director of Audience Engagement, advanced suntimes.com’s digital subscription model as Director of Digital Growth, and eventually joined the executive leadership team as the VP of Marketing. She was previously part of the founding editorial team at DNAinfo Chicago, where she worked as a neighborhood reporter and senior editor.

Lizzie was born and raised in the western suburbs of Chicago and studied journalism at Northwestern University while moonlighting in newsrooms across the city, from NBC5 to the Chicago Reporter to WBEZ.