Graduate explains how new media classes jumpstarted his career
April 22, 2008
Yoel Robinson, a 2000 Mass Comm graduate, currently works as a Jewish Heritage Educator at Binghamton, Ithaca and Cornell Universities. He explained how the journalism/new media classes he took at Towson have helped him.
One of his many goals and objectives in his current job is to use the technology skills he gained in Prof. Thom Lieb’s courses.
“I am currently designing and developing a Web site that will provide news content as well as course modules,” Robinson said. “Professor Lieb introduced our class to Photoshop, which is a good friend to me now. I produce many marketing and promotional pieces through the Photoshop software.”
Robinson’s first job after graduating from Towson was Executive Vice President of a start-up direct marketing firm, where he continued to expand his technical skills, which were sparked under Prof. Lieb’s guidance, he said.
“I learned programming languages and databases,” he said. “I was a founder of a design and development firm, which was an off-shoot of the direct marketing firm.”
He later became the Web Developer for the Office of Continuing and Extended Education at the University of Maryland at College Park (now know as the Professional Studies).
“I have a tremendous amount of gratitude for Professor Lieb and his pioneering journalism with new media,” Robinson said. “I learned how to grab the reader’s mind by writing specifically for the Internet audience and grab their eye with good, solid design.”
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