Fonte by ‘One Source’ @Press Club is super hit

Members from Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad 

join in networking event

Ashish Chauhan

A movement that started with the creation of one WhatsApp group of 30 people on the 22nd of July last year, has now turned out to be an 850-member strong community of media professionals.

The online group One Source organised its inaugural member off line meetup Fontè at the Press Club-Mumbai Mumbai in association with event partners, Public Relations Council of India  last Thursday.

Mr. Ashish Kumar Chauhan, Managing Director & CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange and Mr. Gurbir Singh, Deputy Editor, Business World  and Chairman, Press Club-Mumbai were the guests of honour.

While Mr. Chauhan spoke on the importance of in financial services, Mr Singh dealt with the issue of media expectations from PR professionals. PRCI National president B N Kumar announced the launch of a guest faculty pool by PRCI to depute veteran professionals to mass communication colleges.

The effort behind the deliberations was to educate the community members present on how public relations as an industry has the potential to become a national game changer, rising beyond the cliché of clip-counting and media relations.

Sandeep Rao, founder member of One Source, said in his welcome address: “The group’s endeavour would be to act a knowledge platform apart from facilitating the members exchange industry information and media contacts. For this, we will be happy to tie-up with professional bodies like PRCI.”

Gurbir Singh

“We hope to build bonds and strengthen mutual trust among the professionals encompassing PR, advertising, media and HR practitioners,” he said.

BNK

Started with the objective of opening channels of communication within the industry of communication and facilitating knowledge flow within the industry, One Source has members across more than 40 traditional and full service communication agencies, personnel across news media houses such as the BCCL group and Business Standard, brand custodians across names such as DSP BlackRock, Cairn India, NSE, Myntra, BSE, FICCI, Housing.com and CII, as well as allied service professionals such as digital influencers, content providers and head hunters, all of who come together to help the community drive value for itself.

Encouraged by the success of the event with over 100 people participating, One Source now plans Fonte at other cities, including Delhi and Bangalore.

Contact: Sandeep: +91 97690 79273 or Harsh: +91 98706 31557.