Apeksha Mishra

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India13 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Nearly 10 years in Media & Communications
  • Expert in storytelling and brand messaging
  • Led high-impact corporate communications at Policybazaar
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media & Communications expert with a strong focus on corporate storytelling and brand strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Corporate CommunicationsContent StrategyEditorial ManagementContent CreationDigital MarketingAnchoring

Other Skills

Stakeholder ManagementBrand MessagingMedia RelationsBroadcastingSocial Media OutreachEditorial PlanningContent ManagementTeam CollaborationVoice OverReportingProgrammingBroadcastEditorialVoice ActingDigital Media

About

With a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering and nearly 10 years of work experience in the Media & Communications industry, she’s well equipped with analytical-problem solving skills, holds a good command in effectively narrating a story & an in-depth understanding of the media spectrum. Being part of the journalism and comms world both, helps her better strategise and efficiently package content to be able to drive progressive campaigns and create successful brand messaging that really resonates. Heading Comms at Policybazaar, she’s responsible for strategising & driving the InsurTech brand’s key priorities forward through story-telling, external events & associations, stakeholder management & key media events across all its lines of businesses via Broadcast, Print, Digital, Partnerships with Insurers. Additionally she also spearheads the branded content programme ‘The Policybazaar Show' that's live on Republic TV & India Today. Prior to this she has worked as a seasoned broadcast journalist across marquee English news channels as a News producer & anchor. She started her professional career with the news channel TIMES NOW under the guidance & leadership of Arnab Goswami. She’s also been an integral part of the other news bands such as India Today, ET Now & NewsX covering the political landscape of India. Her work experience as a broadcast journalist across brands has been an embodiment of various skills and expertise that has propelled her career path to varied roles and expansive experiences which centres around mastering the art of storytelling. Before transitioning to Comms, for a brief period she also covered Tech & Digital advertising heading the Delhi-NCR region as a Senior Correspondent with E4m.

Experience

Policybazaar.com

VP & Head Of Corporate Communications & Content

Nov 2018Present · 7 yrs 4 mos · India

  • In-charge of Brand & Policy Comms & Editorial Content for PB, PBFB, PB Partners, PB Fintech : all Founder/CEO & Senior management related communications.
Corporate CommunicationsContent StrategyStakeholder ManagementBrand Messaging

Exchange4media

Senior Correspondent (Tech & Digital Advertising)

Jul 2018Dec 2018 · 5 mos · Delhi

Times network

Political News Desk Head, ET NOW

Sep 2017Jun 2018 · 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Editorial Team
  • In-charge of the political news desk for the evening news band
  • Develop fresh story ideas and copy-write scripts for evening political band
  • Handling entire content: commissioning stories, writing scripts, headlines, making online graphics, deciding debate topics, suggesting as well as resourcing panellists.
  • Tracking content and conducting extensive social media outreach before, during and after telecast.
  • Worked on special political shows like Gujarat Election & Rahul Coronation as Cong President
  • Handled few Corporate activities like media relations execution & internal communication strategies
  • Research stories and new trends to update digital media content updated
Editorial ManagementContent CreationSocial Media Outreach

India today

Anchor & Associate News Producer

Jun 2015Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Core Team Member of the Editorial Dept.
  • Led a crew of 7 for handling on-air broadcast content: editorial planning, securing interviews, prodn. scheduling
  • Worked with the research team to formulate appropriate messaging & branding of shows.
  • Assisted Digital Marketing staff with periodic inputs to promote shows, TV campaigns to increase viewership
  • Key Accomplishments
  • Created & managed editorial content on shows, improving visibility and brand value of news broadcasts by 30%
  • Conceptualized & implemented brandings for both on-air & on-line popular shows that secured some of the highest TRP ratings
Editorial PlanningDigital MarketingContent ManagementEditorial Management

Newsx (direct news private limited)

Anchor and Producer

May 2013Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Anchored the Entertainment Show, That’s Entertainment
  • In charge of deciding story line & news flow order for my show
  • Assisted a team of 9 to decide news flow and create editorial content for on-air shows
  • Assisted few corporate events in collaboration with communications team
AnchoringContent CreationTeam Collaboration

Times network

Trainee Reporter, TIMES NOW

May 2012May 2013 · 1 yr · Mumbai

  • Worked under the able guidance of Arnab Goswami as part of his editorial desk team covering political news.

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Summer Internship

May 2011Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • My Internship with CNN IBN was all about learning the nuances of Television Industry as a beginner. I explored all possible roles through the course of my internship. I covered news press conferences, to collecting vox-pops, to recording & giving Walk throughs, to interviewing celebs at events, to writing packages, to facing the camera, it was indeed a great learning experience.

Education

Symbiosis Institute Of Media And Communication, Pune

Masters in Media & Communication

Jan 2010Jan 2012

C.V.Raman College of Engineering

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) — Mechanical Engineering

Carmel Convent School - India

ICSE — Science

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