Iris Yokoi

Current

• Acting Web Editor at UCI School of Law

Past

• Team Leader, entertainment/events web content at The Orange County Register
• Editor, SqueezeOC.com/SqueezeOC magazine at The Orange County Register
• News Team Leader at The Orange County Register

• Editor & reporter at various newspaper companies

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Education

• Pepperdine University

Recommended

9 people have recommended Iris

Connections

80 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My Blog

Iris Yokoi’s Summary

Writer, editor, creative thinker and successful coaching manager of high-performance teams. Understands both technology and user experience, and how to effectively communicate in varied mediums. Enjoys balancing leadership roles with hands-on work, and bringing people together to build communities and collaborations.

Iris Yokoi’s Specialties:

Writing, editing, reporting/researching, interviewing, media relations, web content development, community outreach, customer service.
Fluent in conversational Spanish and Japanese.

Iris Yokoi’s Experience

• Acting Web Editor

  UCI School of Law

  (Higher Education industry)

  May 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Working with faculty and staff, compiling and editing content and creating pages for UC Irvine School of Law web site to launch when new law school opens in August 2009.

• Team Leader, entertainment/events web content

  The Orange County Register

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  March 2008 — November 2008 (9 months)

  Led content development, growth and management of events.ocregister.com, the events and venues database for OCRegister.com (powered by Zvents):
  • Promoted and coordinated user submissions, ratings, reviews.
  • Facilitated staff content contributions and use of listings from database across OCRegister.com and the Orange County Register's print products.
  • Provided customer service and troubleshooting by working with users and tech teams at Zvents and OCRegister.com.
  Also assigned, edited and posted restaurant reviews, entertainment and other lifestyle features at OCRegister.com.

• Editor, SqueezeOC.com/SqueezeOC magazine

  The Orange County Register

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  May 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 11 months)

  Prototyped, launched in August 2005 and led content creation and maintenance of web site with weekly magazine, focused on fun, local activities (dining, nightlife, outdoors, fitness, home entertainment).
  • Supervised staff of 11 (reporters, page designers, web editors, a multimedia designer and a photographer) and several freelancers.
  • Worked closely with ad sales manager and marketing representatives in promoting SqueezeOC. Made guest appearances on Indie 103.1 FM radio and local cable TV shows.
  • SqueezeOC.com won the 2006 EPpy Award for Best Regional Magazine-Affiliated Web Site.
  • Collaborated with The Orange County Register on content and projects.

• News Team Leader

  The Orange County Register

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  December 1997 — May 2005 (7 years 6 months)

  Directed news coverage of more than a dozen cities (including Huntington Beach, Garden Grove and Westminster), oversaw staffs of typically 10-12 reporters, editors and photographers, and guided coverage of Asian-American issues across Orange County for the 350,000-circulation daily newspaper and half a dozen weekly community newspapers.

• Editor & reporter

  various newspaper companies

  (Newspapers industry)

  May 1987 — December 1997 (10 years 8 months)

  Editor and/or reporter at various Southern California newspapers:
  • Press Telegram, Long Beach, CA (Night city editor)
  • The Los Angeles Times’ City Times edition (launched in September 1992 to cover Central Los Angeles; fulltime contract freelance reporter)
  • The Daily Pilot and Independent, Costa Mesa, CA (Reporter and city editor)
  • The Coast Dispatch in Encinitas, CA (Reporter)

Iris Yokoi’s Education

• Pepperdine University

  BA , Journalism , 1983 — 1987

  Editor-in-chief of The Graphic weekly student newspaper (1987).
  Graduated cum laude, April 1987.

  Activities and Societies:

  Student publications, campus TV station

Additional Information

Iris Yokoi’s Websites:

• My Blog

Iris Yokoi’s Interests:

travel, dining, food (all kinds), music (all kinds), visual arts, dance, ethnic cultures, outdoor activities

Iris Yokoi’s Groups:

Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)

Iris Yokoi’s Honors:

• Recipient of the Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Council of Orange County’s first Excellence in Journalism Award, May 2005.
• AAJA-United Nations Development Program Asia Tour fellow, December 2002: One of six Asian-American journalists chosen for weeklong tour of Vietnam.
• AAJA-Poynter Fellowship, January 1995: Attended weeklong management seminar at Poynter Institute in Florida.
• Mentor since 1992 for local journalism students and young professionals.

Iris Yokoi’s Contact Settings

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