Summary of the Internship:

I have worked as an intern for the website www.theintelligence.in for a duration of one month. My Internship started on 14th September 2021. I joined as an article writer for the website under the supervision of Mr. Mudit Chaudhary.

My first assignment consisted of writing the script for a video story on the farmers’ protest in UP. The assignment required an overview of the most significant deals of the recent occurrences and the significant secularism pitch of farm leader Rakesh Tikait. The second assignment that I have done is on Umar Khalid completing one year in jail and what eminent personalities are saying about this.

Since then, I have been writing articles on topics that are trending on that day. I have learned how to understand the news value of a particular article and how to write them in a way that the readers can understand it. I have developed news articles for different formats. I have written scripts for news videos, podcasts, articles, and features. I have developed content for different beats like politics, health, crime, science, and technology, etc. I have written opinion pieces as well on topics like, the “Godse Zindabad” trend on Gandhi Jayanti and what Kanhaiya Kumar and Jignesh Mevani’s joining Congress means for the party.

About the Organisation:

Intelligence Media is a Noida-based digital news platform. It publishes news and opinion pieces from several beats including politics, health, science, lifestyle, fashion, etc. The focus is to publish up-to-date content without sensationalizing it.

The media house is founded by Mudit Chaudhary, a senior journalist in Lokmat Media, Shweta Kothari, ex-Managing Editor of The Logical Indian, and currently an Adjunct Professor of Bharati Vidyapith and Anika Mann, Senior Journalist. The media house publishes stories in both English and Hindi.

It’s a very proud fact for our organization that despite being a young player in the industry, we have been one of the first news organizations to break the Lakhimpur-Kheri violence story. I have written an article on that on the day that event occurred.

Work and Responsibilities:

I was reporting to the founding editor of The Intelligence, Mr. Mudit Chaudhary who has vast political experience. My main focus was to write articles on the political beat. However, I was assigned other beats like science, business, and others as well.

He was in charge of assigning me stories. However, mostly he used to ask my opinion on which stories we should cover. I used to pitch my ideas and explain the reasons for choosing the story. After a detailed discussion, we used to choose one or two stories that I had to write and submit.

The stories were published on three shifts. One shift was in the early morning, one in the afternoon, and one at night. I submitted my draft for the night and the early morning edition of the publication. Apart from articles I have written video scripts for news videos as well. I was given a topic and had to write scripts for a two-minute video keeping in mind the visuals so that the texts fit in accordingly.

What I learned:

This internship has proved to be very beneficial for me in terms of getting firsthand experience of how the news industry works. I experienced most of the stages in developing and publishing a story. From pitching the story to research and development to submitting it within a deadline, the experience was very insightful.

This made me realize how each and every stage of the development of a story is equally important and how having sync in between those stages is crucial. As an aspiring journalist and a media student, the skills and experience, acquired by me in this internship are invaluable.

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