While a journalism master's student at Michigan State University, I was awarded a Poynter Institute fellowship in 2001. That same year I helped launch Lansing's City Pulse newspaper, as well as redesigning the Hillsdale (Mich.) Daily News. During that time I also assisted fellow master's student Kristen Tuinstra in creating EJ magazine. I continued as art director of EJ for two additional issues after completing my M.A., and wrote an article about the 25th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island for a subsequent issue (Spring 2004 issue).
Shortly after completing my master's in May 2002, I began work at The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., as a designer and graphics reporter. While there, I took over art direction and design of the Sunday Review & Opinion section front, worked on a great deal of election coverage, gave a facelift to our features section fronts, redesigned our weekly community news sections, led several newsroom training sessions on graphics coverage and contributed a number of op-ed pieces and feature stories. I also served as a judge for the Pennsylvania School Press Association and spoke at day-long workshops for both the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association and the Society for News Design.
In August 2005, I left The Patriot-News to become a graphics reporter at The Wall Street Journal in New York, where I currently coordinate graphics coverage in the Marketplace section. Elsewhere in the paper, my graphics coverage falls primarily in the areas of energy, the environment, the auto industry and, until recently, the Hot Topic in the WSJ's weekend edition.
I continue to work with the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association at the organization's annual summer journalism workshop for high school students. The 2006 workshop, held in August, was my ninth year on staff.
—Randy Yeip |
