Third-years Tiffany Li, Elena Eisenstadt, and Evgenia Anastasakos will become the Chicago Maroon’s 2025–26 editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief, and managing editor, respectively, following an election on February 1. They will succeed co-Editors-in-Chief Eva McCord and Kayla Rubenstein, along with Managing Editor Anushree Vashist and Deputy Managing Editor Zachary Leiter.

The incoming slate, which will begin its tenure on March 16, ran on a platform of developing different forms of coverage, incorporating more multimedia in reporting, building relationships with University and South Side communities, and decreasing turnaround time for new articles.

Additionally, the Maroon elected third-year Haebin Jung to serve as chief production officer. Jung will replace Allison Ho, who held the position for the past two academic years. Jung plans to explore new layouts and formats for print, increase communication with other sections, and improve productivity and workflows.

Second-year Crystal Li and third-year Chichi Wang will serve as co-chief financial officers, replacing Kaelyn Hindshaw and Arjun Mazumdar. Li and Wang plan to reassess the Maroon’s print strategy, establish an endowment to provide a financial safety net for the paper, and diversify and expand advertising.

In his opening remarks to Maroon staff, Leiter advised the upcoming slate to “be hard on yourselves, hold each other accountable. We are all still learning, and it is all of your commitment to continue striving and improving that has carried me through this past year.”

Li currently serves as a news editor, senior copy editor, arts editor, and podcast editor. A political science and economics major, she joined the Maroon in her second year after transferring from Middlebury College, where she wrote for the Middlebury Campus.

In her speech, Li emphasized the strong community she found in the Maroon after transferring to the University.

“[I found] a group of people at the Maroon who believed in me, probably more than I believed in myself, and pushed me to challenge myself and grow,” Li said. “By the end of my first quarter, I knew UChicago was the right place for me, and a large part of that was due to the community I had found at the Maroon.”

Eisenstadt currently serves as a Grey City editor and a news reporter. Eisenstadt, a history and Romance languages and literatures major, joined the Maroon in her first year as a Grey City writer before becoming an editor later that year. She has covered the University’s financial troubles, investigated UCPD wage discrepancies, and reported live from the pro-Palestine encampment on the quad last spring. She has also served on the Maroon’s Editorial Board.

Eisenstadt referenced her time reporting on the encampment during her speech, noting how she “watched [her] fellow Maroon reporters rise to the occasion of covering a news event with national and international implications and reporting in this public service capacity.”

“It felt like the journalists around me had a sense of duty to contribute to this coverage, not for themselves, but because of an obligation to provide transparent reporting to the general student body. That sense of obligation is what led me to contribute to the Maroon.”

Eisenstadt’s view of the Maroon is of a paper that “strives to speak to people who hold different beliefs or perspectives, even and especially when those people do not want to directly encounter each other. In doing so, we can write with clarity about the nuances of an issue. This simple act of communication is the best tool that I know of for humanizing people, and it is why I believe that journalism is a service for the public.”

Anastasakos currently serves as a Grey City editor and news reporter. Anastasakos, a history and English language and literature major, joined the Maroon during her first year. Anastasakos joined as a Grey City writer before becoming an editor in her second year. She has reported on the trades and supply chain workers strike at UChicago Medicine, the forcible eviction of a third-generation Woodlawn homeowner and her tenants, and the regular swimmers at Promontory Point.

“I hope to continue to make this a welcoming place for students to learn about journalism and to feel like they’re making an impact,” Anastasakos said. “Serving you all as your managing editor is an exciting, although daunting, idea, and I want you all to know that my main goal is to help you produce work that you’re proud of here at the Maroon.”