Robert Duffer

• With thousands of bylines ranging from executive interviews to far-flung car reviews stretching from Lulea, Sweden, to his midwestern driveway, Duffer has been covering the automotive industry since 2012.
• He was the senior editor for Internet Brands Automotive (The Car Connection, Motor Authority, and Green Car Reports), where he reported on the trends reshaping the automotive industry.
• He was also a senior journalist and digital news editor at the Chicago Tribune, reporting on and editing automotive content and providing a weekly column for a digital and print audience syndicated to more than 140 news outlets.

Experience

Duffer has been working in digital media, launching sites, and tracking analytics since the turn of the millennium. He's covered cars in outlets such as Forbes.com, Cars.com, US News Autos, and contributed to the cultural arts in outlets ranging from the New York Times to National Public Radio. As past president of the Midwest Automotive Media Association, Duffer led a volunteer organization consisting of more than 200 members across 25 states and three countries to help grow MAMA into the premier automotive media association in the country. He is also an award-winning creative writer who practices the AP Style but prefers the Chicago Manual of Style and the Oxford comma.

Education

Duffer earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, where he was a two-time scholarship winner and adjunct faculty member. Learning how to write better complemented his BA in Economics and BA in Business Administration from Illinois State University.