That is exactly what interns training with Dale Bhagwagar Media Group are getting. The firm’s two-month unpaid online internship facilitates interns to have news articles written by them to be published on news websites. Apart from this, the interns get a certificate and a letter of appreciation on successful completion of the internship.

All this, while letting the interns work-from-home. It makes this online journalism internship in India a unique opportunity for students preparing for a career in journalism.

However, the internship comes with a caveat. Apart from being an unpaid internship, it has an entry test. Only those students who clear the test are accepted for the two-month training.

For the record, Dale Bhagwagar Media Group is India’s leading entertainment PR agency. Its founder Dale Bhagwagar has been a journalist for 11 years, and a publicist for 26 years. He is popularly known in the media as Bollywood’s only PR guru. A simple Google search in his name mostly brings up thousands of results.

The entertainment publicist has handled most of the No.1’s of music genres. He has managed the media for Bhajan Samrat Anup Jalota, Ghazal King Pankaj Udhas, Princess of Pop Anaida, Indi-pop rap star Style Bhai, Ghazal Queen Penaz Masani, Santoor Maestro Rahul Sharma, and even the King of Bhangra Daler Mehndi.

Dale has also handled PR for the music company Tips Industries and the media publicity and promotions for over 80 music albums of various music companies. He has looked after the media for Melody Kings Nadeem-Shravan in the 90s and early 2000s, promoting the music of their musical blockbuster Raaz.

Over the years, this top PR maven of the Indian music world has also managed the media for numerous audio companies, movies, music albums, singers, music composers, music videos, songs and singles, for which he has promoted the music of names such as Aadesh Shrivastava, Amit Trivedi, Anand Raj Anand, Anu Malik, Ashutosh Pathak-Dhruv Ghanekar, Babbu Maan, Bappi Lahiri, BC Smith, Brooklyn Shanti, Dr Zeus, Gurdas Maan, Hans Raj Hans, Himesh Reshammiya, Ila Arun, Ismail Darbar, Jagjit Singh, Jatin-Lalit, Jazzy B, John Stewart, Karthik Raja, Nadeem-Shravan, Nikhil Vinay, Nitin Raikwar, Rajesh Roshan, Ranjit Barot, Sandeep Chowta, Sanjeev Darshan, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Shantanu Moitra, Sukhwinder Singh, Talvin Singh, Tarali Sharma, Uttam Singh, Viju Shah, Vipin Mishra, Vishal-Shekhar and last but not the least, even Malika-e-Tarannum Noor Jehan, as well as the legendary music composer Naushad, who has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and the Padma Bhushan.

Dale Bhagwagar has also looked after the media publicity for the music company Tips Industries Limited, musical serials like Deewane To Deewane Hai (Zee TV) and Geet Gaataa Chul (Zee TV), Shilpa Shetty’s international musical Miss Bollywood, the US-based philanthropy musical group Flute Theory, SS Ballet Academy, as well as book PR for renowned journalist-cum-author Chaitanya Padukone’s book RD Burmania: Pancha Memoirs.

For the record, the publicity expert runs Bollywood’s leading PR agency Dale Bhagwagar Media Group in Mumbai. The Bollywood publicist has handled the PR for around 300 personalities including Hrithik Roshan, Shilpa Shetty and Priyanka Chopta and for some 30 movies including names such as the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Don, Farhan Akhtar-starrer Rock On!! and the post-release PR for Hrithik Roshan-starrer Koi… Mil Gaya.

All this and more clearly makes this PR maven the top best music publicist in India.

A simple Google search in his name brings up thousands of results. Bollywood’s only PR guru Dale Bhagwagar who has introduced the maximum PR trends in the public relations industry, has agreed to train journalism students in content writing, through unpaid virtual internships from his PR agency Dale Bhagwagar Media Group.

Having spent 11 years in journalism, Dale Bhagwagar shifted to public relations 25 years ago. Since the last two decades, the legendary PR expert has been training students of mass communication through PR internships, PR orientation workshops and guest lectures. A lot of his students now work in various media houses and PR agencies across India. He has also been a guide to twenty PhD students for their thesis and dissertations.

Work-from-home journalism internships in content writing

Apart from his experience and expertise in media, Dale is known for his journalistic astuteness and PR ethics. After 36 years of catering to the news industry, the media maven’s PR agency Dale Bhagwagar Media Group has agreed to accept unpaid virtual journalism internships in content writing for select students across media. Announcing this development, JournalismInternship.in explains about how the PR firm has opened its doors to help a wider set of media students. Dale Bhagwagar Media Group’s ‘Unpaid Virtual Internships in Content Writing’ are based on work-from-home projects, assigned mainly to students studying journalism, content writing and/or public relations.

Why content writing

Without understanding how to write great content, one can never be a great journalist or a great PR. Humans have moved from the Stone Age to the Labour Age, Industrial Age and then the Information Age — now speedily heading into the Communication Age.

With the right direction and right guidance in writing and communication skills and its proper processes, one can improve on content writing skills from a news media point of view. Without perfecting this, journalism and PR learning remains incomplete in an era where content is king.

The Virtual Internships have an entry barrier on who the PR agency chooses to train. There is an entry test all applicants must take. Only if the agency is satisfied with the entry test response, will the applicants be accepted for the two-month virtual journalism internship in content writing.

The entry test involves content generation of two news articles on topics commissioned by the agency. The articles are scrutinized for writing quality, news value, expressiveness, formation of sentences, grammar, copy editing and meeting the deadlines of article submission. If the two news articles meet the agency’s expectations, it issues an offer note to the applicant to join as a Virtual Intern.

The period of the internship is two months, which is essential for understanding content strategy, journalistic styles and ethics, spin techniques, methods of news writing, formation of content, news angles and news writing formats.

Intern articles published online

As a Virtual Intern, the applicant is expected to stay in touch over the phone and on WhatsApp each day for two months and generate two news articles everyday for 60 days.

In case the daily articles prepared by the Intern meet the journalistic standards of national news websites, the PR firm speaks to select websites and gets some of them published. These could be extremely beneficial as reference links for the Intern, when seeking a job in mass media professions such as journalism, content writing or PR in future.

Digital Certificate and Letter of Appreciation

On successful completion of the Virtual Internship, students get a Digital Certificate and Letter of Appreciation from Dale Bhagwagar Media Group.

Who is Dale Bhagwagar?

For the uninitiated, Dale Bhagwagar is a leading celebrity publicist in India with 36 years of experience in the news media industry — 11 years in journalism, followed by 25 years of expertise in PR. As a journalist, he has written for national publications like The Indian Express, The Asian Age, DNA, Screen, Cine Blitz, Showtime, Moviemag International and the iconic Blitz tabloid, among others.

As a publicist and thought leader, he has been quoted in almost every top media in India. He is also the only Indian publicist who has been quoted in top best international media such as BBC, Sky News (UK), CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post (US), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), International Herald Tribune (France) and Pravda (Russia).

He heads the PR agency Dale Bhagwagar Media Group in Mumbai which has handled the publicity for over 300 Bollywood personalities, 30 movies and 20 Bigg Boss contestants. Its activities bear his personal touch and stamp. The agency has been at the forefront of the entertainment PR brigade for more than two decades.

Kabir posted a poster of his film and wrote on Instagram, “Thank you, Shri. @arvindkejriwal ji and Shri. msisodia.aap ji, for declaring the film 83 tax-free in Delhi! Your gesture will able us to propagate the tale of India’s greatest victory to a wider audience. @therealkapildev #ThisIs83.”

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Speaking about his role in ‘83’, Ranveer had said in a press statement, “He (Kapil Dev) has a very unique bowling action and his bio-mechanics are very unique to him. My body is very different from his so I had to transform my physicality drastically in order to achieve it. It took a long time, in fact, months to perfect the action. Initially, my body was too heavy because I was coming off of the shoot of Simmba.”

He added, “Our coach noticed that my body was too heavy and he said jab tu run-up mein aata hai toh tu aisa lagta hai ki pehelwan bowling karne aa raha hai. And he sent me away for a month just to change my physicality to bring it closer to Kapil’s athleticism and then once I did that, I started making some headway. I was playing cricket for 4 hours a day for 6 months and doing physical conditioning for 2 hours a day for those 6 months. Four months of prep and 2-3 months of shoot, I put in a lot of hours.”

Newbie Anisha Victor who features in it with all the stalwarts is elated. “Even though I have a small part in the film, when someone tells you Brendan Fraser is in it and you have grown up watching The Mummy, you just say ‘yes!’,” she gushes.

Anisha who has starred in The House Next Door and the web series REJCTX adds, “I play a girl called Seema in The Line of Descent, the third son’s girlfriend. There’s a stark difference between him and his brothers. He’s a little brat and I’m always trying to calm him down. It was so much fun.”

The film follows the story of a mafia family in Delhi, as three brothers fight to control their father’s legacy. Line of Descent was first released on the online streaming platform Zee5.