Christopher Yates Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Ensure a high standard of visual execution across all Law360 products.Supervise members of the graphics, social media and multimedia teams to generate creative and effective graphics, posts and other forms of news content.Direct art across platforms, including visual ideas and strategy, and the assigning and consideration of the use of photo, video.

Greater New York City Area

Identify stories that would benefit from graphics and/or photographs; select photos from multiple databases, edit and embed them in stories.Create graphics — including charts, illustrations, maps and timelines — for various articles, newsletters, special projects and marketing materials using the Adobe Suite, Tableau and HTML/CSS. Design and lay out.

Greater New York City Area

Giving first reads on senior reporter news analyses and features, working to improve structure, content and style.Assist in the initial training and follow-up training of reporters.Continue to edit daily legal news stories for readability, structure and style.

New York, NY

Edit 16-20 legal news articles per day for style and structure, with subject matter including corporate, environmental, employment, public policy and intellectual property law, among others.Work with reporters to strengthen leads and create eye-catching headlines. Proofread headlines and leads on newsletters sent to subscribers daily.Create infographics.

Lynchburg, Va.

Maintained communication with editors in multiple newsrooms. Worked closely with editors and management to plan for upcoming projects such as special sections and specialty pages.Supervised 6-8 copy editors within the Consolidated Editing Center, watching their work closely and helping in their development as copy editors.

Lynchburg, Va.

Designed pages for all sections (news and sports) of several daily and weekly newspapers. Proofread all pages of the newspapers and wrote headlines. Worked carefully with local and wire copy.

Lynchburg, Va.

Maintained communication with editors in several newsrooms. Worked closely with editors and management to plan for upcoming projects such as special sections and specialty pages.Supervised 6-8 copy editors within the Consolidated Editing Center, watching their work closely and helping in their development as copy editors.

Kinston, N.C.

Copy edited reporters’ stories for grammar, spelling, usage and style Proofread all designed pages for daily newspaperDesigned 1-3 pages daily and one weekly community newspaper

Richmond, Virginia Area

Acquired and built content for CircuitCity.comUpdated and edited product content, images and reviewsAnswered customer care issues