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WSJ multimedia editor Shin joining Washington Post

Youjin Shin

Wall Street Journal multimedia editor Youjin Shin has been hired by the Washington Post graphics department as a graphics reporter.

She starts at the Post on June 18. Shin had been at The Journal since October 2015.

At The Journal, Shin designed and programmed interactive stories about topics as diverse as how bad it is to drive on I-95, how U.S. immigration has changed over time and the rise of women in the Senate.

Shin has a background as a robotics engineer.

Originally from Korea, she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering at Korea University, before getting another master’s in interactive telecommunications at New York University and becoming a research fellow at the MIT SENSEable City Lab.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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