Victoria Ferris
  • communication studies
  • Class of 2015
  • Roanoke, VA

Roanoke resident gets fast-track journalism experience in Italy

2014 Oct 27

Victoria Ferris participated in a four-week study abroad program this past summer in which students developed multimedia content documenting the people and places of Urbino, Italy, and the surrounding Marche Region.

Ferris, a May 2014 graduate communication studies major at JMU, was one of 28 JMU students to participate in the annual study abroad trip, known as the Urbino Project. Coached by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, two former Washington Post and White House photographers, and major-television-market videographers and reporters, the students created text, photos and video, and learned how to navigate as professional journalists in a foreign culture by working with Italian interpreters. Their work is featured at http://2014.inurbino.net/.

The Urbino Project is sponsored by the Institute for Education in International Media and JMU's School of Media Arts and Design.