This summer, public relations and communications major Gianna Fendrich ’25 turned her childhood love for storytelling into a dream internship at Dow Jones in New York City. As a corporate communications intern at the company’s global headquarters, Gianna worked across internal and external communications. She tracked breaking news coverage, distributed global newsletters, built reporter profiles and targeted media lists for The Wall Street Journal, and even launched the company’s first intern-led social media series. “The biggest highlight of the internship was creating the social media series, InternView,” Gianna said. “As a young professional myself, I gained a wealth of knowledge from the advice given in the interviews, including, ‘Say yes to everything,’ and ‘Be curious and solve problems.’” After graduating from URI this fall, Gianna will take the next step in her career journey, returning to Dow Jones in January as a marketing associate on the live journalism events team. Re...