Media movements update

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Ananya Dasgupta (Delhi, @ananyadg) says hello to Weber Shandwick and goodbye to CNN News18. She joins Weber Shandwick as Managing Editor and will be responsible for content, brand communications, brand journalism, video storytelling, strategy, and building brand narratives. She was previously also associated with Doordarshan news as Anchor cum Correspondent.

Padmaja Joshi (Delhi, @PadmajaJoshi) joins India Today Group as an Editor. She had her previous innings with Times Now, Headlines Today, and NewsX.

Somak Ghoshal (Bengaluru, @somakghoshal) joins The Huffington Post as Senior Editor. Having had previous stints with Harper Collins, Mint, and The Telegraph.

Sapna Srivastava (Mumbai) embarks on a new endeavor joining exchange4media – Realty Plus as Deputy Editor. She had her previous stints with Buildotech Magazine as Managing Editor, Virtual Info System Pvt. Ltd. as Associate Editor, Indiabulls Real Estate as Media Relations, ITP Publishing Group as Industry Columnist, and Times Group as Guest Columnist.

Kshitiz Goliya (Delhi, @KGoliya), Former Correspondent at Reuters News Agency, now joins HT Mint as Content Creator covering Indian IT sector and Real Estate. He did his internship with The Statesman in 2012 and reported for city section there.

Courtesy Tanvi Agarwall @ Suzlon @ One Source

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.