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Deputy Director (External Relations)
Qualifications:
MSc (Journalism) (New Media), BA (Hons) English Language
Contact:
+65 6460 8263
E-mail:
yxp@np.edu.sg
facebook name:
Robin Yee
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Apart from a short stint as a marketing representative with computer giant IBM, where he was top 10% trainee in Asia, Robin has spent most of his working life as a journalist.
For seven years, he wrote for national paper The Straits Times, entertainment magazine 8 DAYS and a global financial wire news agency, since bought over by Reuters.
The bilingual reporter has written on diverse subjects on the Home, Crime, Life! and Translation desks, covered Chinese entertainment, filed regional commodities reports and travel pieces for these and freelance publications.
Since 1997, Robin has been preparing FMS students for careers in journalism. He supervised its flagship publications: campus newspaper NPTribune, entertainment magazine hype and a popular lifestyle e-zine he founded called theurbanwire.com, which gets more than 2 million hits every month.
His student team, TriMedia Publishing, is commercially viable and produced hyper, the polytechnic’s outreach magazine that is mailed directly to 38,000 homes.
The creator and organiser of Singapore’s, if not the world’s, first online charity gameshow, S.M.A.R.T.S, Robin has won the following awards from Ngee Ann Polytechnic:
- Departmental Teaching Award (2000),
- A postgraduate scholarship to Northwestern University, Chicago (2001) where he earned his Masters in Journalism in New Media,
- the Dr Hiew Siew Nam Distinguished Teaching Award (2003),
- NP Community Service Award (2003),
- NP Staff Excellence Award- Innovation (2005)
He has also been interviewed by national media on several topics including citizen journalism, blogging and new media.
The Deputy Director (External Relations) of FMS was invited to present a paper at the Broadcast Education Association conference in 2007 in Las Vegas on FMS’s model of media study trips.
With the experience of having led a journalism study trip to New York and Boston in 2005, Robin led another team of students, with his colleagues, to pre-Olympics Beijing in 2008.
In 2008 he also created and launched the UWtimate Download, a unique and universally available privilege programme primarily targeted at youths, based on a free mobile phone download.
Robin also conceptualised and edited Above & Beyond with former colleague Desmond Kon. The coffee table book featuring photographs and anecdotes from staff and students throughout NP was launched to commemorate NP's overseas programmes in conjunction with the school's 45th anniversary.
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