Neelesh Misra

Co-Founder

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India24 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founded India's first professionally run rural newspaper.
  • Co-writer of the blockbuster film Ek Tha Tiger.
  • Awarded Ram Nath Goenka Award for excellence in journalism.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media and Content Strategy expert with a focus on rural journalism.

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Skills

Core Skills

Content StrategyWritingStorytellingJournalism

Other Skills

Creative WritingDigital MediaContent DevelopmentMarketingEditingReportingVoice CommunicationsNew MediaBooksCopy EditingBloggingTelevisionCopywritingRadioNews Writing

About

Professional Experience: Bollywood Scriptwriter, Lyricist, Radio Storyteller, Author, Mentor of writers' team called Monday Mandli Founder and CEO, Content Project Pvt Ltd April 2012 onwards Founder Gaon Connection rural media platform December 2012 onwards Mentor, The Mandli (team of writers) November 2010 onwards Deputy Executive Editor October 2009 to October 2010 Hindustan Times New Delhi Senior Roving Editor Hindustan Times September 2006 to September 2009 New Delhi Correspondent April 1998 to August 2006 The Associated Press, South Asia Bureau Senior Reporter August 1996 to April 1998 India Abroad News Service, South Asia Bureau, New Delhi Reporter and Copy Editor May 1995 to August 1996 India Abroad News Service, South Asia Bureau, New Delhi Stringer in the Bureau 1990 through 1996 Various publications, including Swatantra Bharat (Hindi), The Pioneer, Lucknow City Magazine Specialties: Neelesh, heads a content company and a rural newspaper; is a Bollywood scriptwriter/lyricist, author, radio storyteller, mentor and journalist. Neelesh has set up Gaon Connection, India's first professionally run rural newspaper. He has covered some of the biggest stories out of South Asia. Neelesh has written five best-selling books. He is the co-writer of Ek Tha Tiger, one of the biggest ever Hindi films. Awards: Ram Nath Goenka Award, K.C. Kulish Memorial Award

Experience

Slow content pvt. ltd.

Founder

Apr 2020Present · 6 yrs · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • The Slow Movement is an effort to go #BackToBasics — to a slower, more meaningful and rooted life.
  • The Slow Movement is an effort to reconnect with ourselves and with the beautiful small joys and experiences that we left behind in our fast-paced lives. These could be about consuming the kind of laidback video/audio/text content we don’t often get to see in a clickbait world; sensory experiences that could range from a photo walk to birdwatching to a storytelling session to a pottery class; and products and things that reflect this thinking — that are pure (not laced with dangerous chemicals), connected to our roots, imbibed with honesty and giving back to the creators and not the middlemen.Our main brand will be Slow. This will be the umbrella brand under which everything else will reside.
  • It includes:
  • SLOW FOODS AND MERCHANDISE Pvt. Ltd.
  • Pure, healthy, premium products taking us back to our roots and traditional, harmful chemical-free dietary practices. Helping farmers directly. Promoted by Slow Journalism and Slow Content platforms.
  • Offering:
  • 100% millet cookies sourced directly from farmers. Spices, food products, handicrafts and other things created by rural communities to raise their income and serve rural-minded consumers.
  • T-shirts and other merchandise using traditional dyes and textile techniques, other products on urban and rural themes
  • SLOW CONTENT Pvt. Ltd.
  • Video and audio content that reconnects viewers and listeners with their craving for a simpler life and takes them back to their roots.
  • Offering:
  • Audio Storytelling
  • The Slow Interview
  • Mic platform
  • Slow Journalism through
  • GAON CONNECTION Pvt. Ltd.
  • In an era of clickbait, paid news and titillating news content, going back to old-fashioned journalism of footwork and depth and still riding the digital wave for massive reach.
  • GAON CONNECTION RURAL INSIGHTS Pvt. Ltd.
  • India’s biggest survey/insights platformSLOW EXPERIENCES Pvt. Ltd.
  • Slow homestays
  • Slow Cafe
WritingContent StrategyStorytellingCreative WritingDigital Media

Gaon connection

Founder

Dec 2012Present · 13 yrs 4 mos · Kunaura Village, Uttar Pradesh

  • Gaon Connection is India's biggest rural media platform and the country's biggest rural insights company.
JournalismContent StrategyWriting

Hindustan times

Deputy Executive Editor

Oct 2006Oct 2010 · 4 yrs

  • Headed special projects, news features and the weekend edition.
EditingJournalismContent Strategy

Associated press

Correspondent, South Asia bureau

Apr 1998Sep 2005 · 7 yrs 5 mos

  • Reported out of India for The AP's 15,000 global subscribers.
ReportingJournalism

Education

Kumaun University

Bachelor of Arts — History

Jan 1990Jan 1993

Mahanagar Boys, Lucknow

Class XII — UP Board

Jan 1988Jan 1990

St. Joseph's College, Nainital

Class X — ICSE

Jan 1982Jan 1988

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