Life is a story…

I am a Perth-based journalist, content writer and editor, with a passion for food and travel.

I’ve loved writing since I was a teenager and am an avid photographer, with food my usual subject. Everyone knows not to eat until I’ve taken my photos (and video for Reels, too).

Since late 2023 I have had my own consultancy, Outlier Comms, providing copywriting, social media management and content creation, public relations strategy and campaign management, to select clients in government, tourism and hospitality.

I continue to freelance as a travel and food journalist for The West Australian and Sunday Times Travel pages, WA Good Food Guide, Swan Valley Magazine.

From 2019 to 2023 I worked in destination marketing for the Swan Valley, WA’s oldest wine region. This encompassed communications and publicity for seasonal events, coordination media familiarisation visits, creating new collateral, advertising campaigns, and much more.

From June 2010 to April, 2019 I was a senior writer, editor and journalist at The West Australian Newspaper.

For most of my career I specialised in entertainment feature writing and criticism, interviewing actors, writers, musicians and producers about TV, movies and music.

For my last 20 months at The West, I was editor of the food pages and managed the associated Instagram account.

Before that, I spent three years as editor of the high-circulation weekly glossy magazine, Seven Days.

This personal website has links to some of the work I have done for The West and other publications, while the blog is mainly devoted to my random musings about my personal passions of food and travel.

Before returning to The West in May 2010, I spent several years freelancing. One of my regular gigs was tracking the latest TV news, gossip, ratings and plots for Perth news talk radio station 6PR. (Since January 2022 I have been back doing that every second Wednesday with Tod Johnston on the Nightshift).

I occasionally pop up as a guest on other 6PR shows, talking about random topics such as 80s nightclubs, or a punter being evicted from FringeWorld.

For several years I could also be heard talking entertainment and food with Matt Layton on the now defunct Spirit Network. I love the immediacy of radio!

Those in the market for a home on Perth’s northern beaches may have seen my work in The West’s Real Estate section; and if music is more your thing, I also wrote for Perth’s monthly lifestyle magazine, Silver, which later became Sheila.

My first stint on “the other side” in PR was writing press releases and pitching stories as a part-time media consultant for the Perth Royal Show in 2008 and 2009.

If you have found your way to this site via Google, I should point out I am not the Sue Yeap who has something to do with dog agility trials in Malaysia.

I’m the one who has interviewed everyone from The Wiggles and Baby Spice to NCIS star  Michael Weatherly and shock rocker Marilyn Manson during long stretches as TV critic, TV editor and music editor.

You can also find me on Instagram @sueyeap (the feed is embedded on the homepage) or follow me on X/Twitter: x.com/sueyeap