My main tasks include,
-Content creation, tracking news and disseminating it with appropriate stories, spin-offs
-Writing analysis pieces
-Have handled Budget 2014 and Lok Sabha elections 2014
-Book reviews
-Curated pieces
-Market coverage
-Understanding SEO
-Business and political stories for the web
Stories can be found at: http://www.dnaindia.com/authors/vishal-manve

The Mumbai bureau produces India Business Report, which is aired on BBC World News every Sunday. The show is ideated, shot, produced and edited completely from India, with segment contributions from the Delhi bureau.
As an intern my job is to research stories from ideation to execution, handle production tasks including voice-overs, Vox-pops and find expert /relevant people for the story to interview and assist on shoots.
Stories worked on,
- Land acquisition bill
-Building collapse in Mumbai
-Rural consumerism
-Interview with HRD ministry
-Delhi gang rape verdict
-Indians selected for Project Mars
-Jiyo Parsi story
-News-belts and voice-overs

My first Reporting job was a challenge but I believe in making the most out of every situation and reaching the goals by learning and perfecting multiple skill-sets.

-Banters: A satirical write-up appearing every Monday in Free Press Journal Newspaper. Wrote consistently over the weeks.

-Civic reporting: Covered pertinent issues affecting the city by visiting the Municipal Corporation's office headquartered at South Bombay. Interacted with various officials for the stories.

-Main stories covered are,

-Mumbra building collapse and related stories
-Developmental plan of the city
-Monsoon preparations by BMC
-Standing committee meetings
-Major accidents around the suburbs (Page one story)
-Campa Cola/BMC issue
-Interviewing the Assistant commissioner of BMC for a story.
-Investigative reporting on the fires that shook Vaity and Savani apartments in Mumbai and digging out stories related to mismanagement by various authorities.
-Interview with the Chief Fire Officer of Mumbai-Suhas Joshi.
-Preparing weather reports and other stories.

Some samples are below,

-Entertainment stories related to campus, theater festivals and music scenario.

-Handled the layout and content arrangement in listings page of the paper.

-Worked on Quark express versions 4.0 & 8.1

Worked on a show called Heavy Petting.

-Research: Conducted research to find suitable candidates to be on the show.

-Handled production tasks for the show like listing, winner selection, Recce amongst others.

-Worked on the software Final Cut Pro to do basic editing for the show.

First brush with print Journalism to learn the succinct work pressure and implore writing skills and achieve a perfect symbiosis of report writing, fact collection and verification.

-Worked on city news in close contact with senior reporters

-Understood the complexities of networking and finding stories

-Was inducted into QUEST-a series of educational interviews where I conducted interviews for the special supplement

Please check the links for BYLINES: http://bit.ly/17zb0bE

Brushed up news-selection skills by assisting the producer.

Undertook duties like,
-Transcription
-Uplinking chips
-Assisting producer
-Basic editing on Avid Pro
-Securing permissions for crew-shooting and conducting the entire session
-Visiting locations and gathering public reaction to some stories
-Conducted a full fledged interview with a winner for photography contest