PR 24x7 completes 11 Years of Operation

Recently PR24x7, Central India's largest PR company based in Indore, completed 11 years of its operations. To celebrate this achievement the company organized different activities under its corporate social responsibility giving its bit to society.

The company, with all its employees planned many activities and implemented them from 3 February 2015 to 7 February 2015. All the employees participated in these activities with great enthusiasm.

On 3 February 2015, Atul Malikram and the employees of company, participated in Swachh Bharat campaign and cleaned Chandra Nagar Garden, MR 9, Main road, Indore with broom in their hands. On 4 February, they visited different Day-care centres near 3/1, Choti Bhamori, near Astha Talkies and Pioneer Institute of Professional Studies, Mahalaxmi Nagar, Indore and talked to elders. On 5 February, quiz programs were organized and then 6 February was given to PR workshop, where different connected agencies were educated on latest developments and advancements in PR sector. On 7 February there was a get-together, which was attended by the employees, connected agencies and media professionals.

The company has shown a vertical growth in past 11 years. It has also made commendable efforts for the betterment of society. Today, it's the largest PR agency of central India that has its offices in different cities. The company is going forward soon to achieve the turnover of 50 million rupees and open its office in Singapore.

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R K Laxman - Creator of 'Common Man' Cartoon, Died

Photo credit Hindu

R K Laxman, famous cartoonist of India,  who is known for his iconic work "Common Man" in You Said it, breathed last on Monday evening at a private hospital in Pune. He was 94.

For long, he has been associated with journalism filed and his cartoons had reflected the true image of the society.

He is brother of famous novelist R K Narayanan.

India lost a legendary cartoonist, who has been the life of cartoon and inspiration to millions of journalists.

Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist.

He is best known for his creation The Common Man, for his daily cartoon strip, "You Said It" in The Times of India, which started in 1951.

We will his work, here are some of the cartoon of R K Laxman, and this way we got to pay tribute the great cartoonist.

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The Huffington Post Partners with The Times of India Group to Launch “Huffington Post India”

NEW YORK and NEW DELHI, August 21, 2014 -- The Huffington Post Media Group and The Times of India Group, India’s largest media conglomerate, today announced their partnership to launch an Indian edition of The Huffington Post, a leading global source of breaking news, opinion, entertainment, and community.

The English-language website will combine The Huffington Post's award-winning news and blogging platform with the local expertise and reach of The Times of India Group. Targeting India's rapidly expanding Internet user base, which is expected to reach 370 million by 2015, HuffPost India will cover everything from politics, media and entertainment to technology, religion and lifestyle, and open up The Huffington Post’s blogging platform to anyone in the country with a story to tell.

The announcement was jointly made by Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, and Satyan Gajwani, CEO of Times Internet (TIL), the digital arm of The Times of India.

"I'm delighted to launch HuffPost India, which will be our 12th edition since we began our international expansion three years ago," said Huffington. "In addition to being a hub for global news and a country that embodies much of the ancient wisdom the world desperately needs now, India has deep personal significance to me. When I was 17, I studied comparative religion at Visva-Bharati University, outside of Calcutta, and traveled across India, falling in love with the country -- a love affair that has continued to this day. So I'm extremely grateful for the chance to bring HuffPost to India to tell the stories that matter most -- and just as important, to help people throughout India tell their stories themselves, in words, in pictures and in video."

"The Huffington Post is the first real digital-first news success story globally, and their impact is seen across the world," said Gajwani. "They've coupled a best-in-class technology platform with a fresh way of approaching the world's issues today. We've demonstrated our ability to meaningfully grow international media brands, such as Business Insider, Gizmodo, and more. We are excited to combine HuffPost's world-class product with our local reach with consumers and advertisers to tailor-make a great new destination for Indian consumers."

"As the world's largest democracy, and with a middle class of more than 250 million people, India is a critical destination for any global media company," said Huffington Post Media Group CEO Jimmy Maymann. "And with Indian household consumption predicted to continue to grow nearly 20% per year, this partnership gives us an ideal entry into what is expected to become the world's fifth-largest consumer market within the next ten years."

The Huffington Post and The Times of India Group will establish an editorial team based in New Delhi. The site is slated to launch later this year.

The second largest English-speaking population in the world -- trailing only the U.S. -- India also has the third largest Internet population. The Huffington Post has 86 million monthly global unique visitors (desktop only, comScore, June 2014). HuffPost's integrated global newsroom has hundreds of editors across 11 countries who collaborate in real-time to create content in eight languages using a custom unified tech platform.


About The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 86 million monthly global unique visitors (desktop only, comScore, June 2014). The site has over 70,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Maghreb, Germany, Brazil and South Korea. The Huffington Post is part of AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL).


About Times Internet

Times Internet (TIL) is a premier digital product company and the digital arm of The Times of India Group. It reaches over 100m visitors and serves 2 billion pageviews every month across web and mobile, with businesses across news, entertainment, sports, local, ecommerce, classifieds, startup investments, local partnerships, and more. Times Local Partners (TLP) is a business unit developed in 2013, which partners with emerging global digital businesses to build local partnerships, having partnered with brands like Business Insider, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, IGN, AskMen, and more.



For Further Information: Yashmeen Barua, 91-981-169-9757, yashmeen.barua@timesinternet.in

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Media and communication veteran Santosh K Joy joins Teamwork PR as Senior Vice President

Media and communication veteran Santosh K Joy joins Teamwork PR as Senior Vice President


New Delhi, Aug 7, 2014: Santosh K Joy, a senior journalist and communication researcher on social and legislative issues who has been associated with several leading publications over the years, has now joined Teamwork Public Relations as its Senior Vice President.

A media veteran, Mr Joy brings several years of experience in the field of communication to the rapidly growing public relations and media advisory agency, and promises to provide a huge boost to its leadership team. He brings a vast insight into the functioning of the Indian media that will provide crucial strategic guidance to the team.

He has served as senior consultant for Teamwork Public Relations for over 3 years, before taking this logical next step.

Following his school education from his native place in Banswara (Rajasthan), Santosh acquired a degree in engineering before turning to a Master’s programme in Mass Communication. He moved to Delhi in 2002 after a two-year stint at an English daily in Indore.

In Delhi, he began his career as a senior correspondent for Roazana program of DD News. He later served as Principal Correspondent for India’s leading wire agency The Press Trust of India and Sr. Staff Writer for Wall Street Journal – Mint, the business newspaper from the Hindustan Times stable.

A communication researcher on social and legislative issues, Santosh headed the research and program division of the Constitution Club of India (CCI), the body of the Indian Parliamentarians, before joining Teamwork.

“Mr Santosh K Joy has been our friendly guide and mentor over the past three years, helping us define our roadmap for the future and grow as a company and as professionals. We are delighted that he has decided to join the agency and strengthen its leadership with his vast experience and understanding of media and its functioning. Not only does the agency as a whole hope to gain immensely by his knowledge and strategizing capability, but so will individual employees. We welcome him onboard,” says Mr Kamal Narayan Omer, Managing Director, Teamwork Public Relations.

At CCI his key responsibilities involved planning campaigns, social networking strategies and press communication for Members of Parliaments and analyzing legislative bills and policy changes for regular briefings on a day to day basis. He also headed the editorial team which published magazines and communication material for Members of Parliament.

He is a Post Graduate in Mass Communication and has cleared the National Eligibility Certificate (NET) for communication teaching in higher education. Along with his mainstream journalism career, he has engaged himself as a volunteer for many social campaigns and helped organisations like Childline, National Council for Protection of Child Rights, Don Bosco Ashalayam among other non-profit organizations and support groups.

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Evolving Sources of News for Journalists - "#MediaInsights Report"

New Delhi:Research jointly conducted by 20:20 MSL and IIMC to study the changing patterns of news sourcing by journalists, especially with the advent of social media

In an attempt to demystify the rapidly evolving media universe in India and shed light on the growing appeal of new-age alternatives to the press release, 20:20 MSL (part of MSLGROUP, Publicis Groupe's strategic communications and engagement consultancy and the largest PR network in India) in strong collaboration with the Advertising & Public Relations Department of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) today launched the "#MediaInsights report", the first-of-its kind research to arrive at insights that would benefit India's media and communications industry.

When a piping hot story is on the anvil, only one in eleven journalists would use more than half the press releases that flood their email inboxes. Internal brainstorming sessions remain the most preferred among many, when it comes to exercising their grey cells in the newsroom. An emphasis on the diversity of content from the media has driven a series of compelling changes in the conventions of news sourcing among journalists and other media professionals. The public sentiments that are considered in constructing a story, the advent of the social media space as a hub for story ideas and extensive use of official websites to cull out authentic data are some of the most striking industry-wide changes that the report has highlighted.

Commenting on the report, Mr. Chetan Mahajan, Managing Director, 20:20 MSL said, "It is imperative for a next generation insights-driven agency to understand the media environment in order to be a strategic advisor to the stakeholders. We jointly conducted this research with IIMC, in order to get insights to address the gap between news-makers, news-consumers and the media. The report has successfully mapped the changes and brought out some compelling facts. I believe that this report will help PR practitioners in best aligning their strategies and tactics."

Mr. Sunit Tandon, Director General, Indian Institute of Mass Communication welcomed the report as "the first in a series of such studies that would be useful for all who are interested in understanding the rapidly changing contours and dynamics of the Indian news media sector."

The research was conducted with a stratified sample of 309 journalists nationwide cutting across age, gender, specialization etc. The report also focuses on several statistical data sets including the following:

(i) The ratio of stories produced by senior correspondents to those filed by young reporters
(ii) The frequency of social media usage in newsrooms, and
(iii) The reliance that journalists place on the Internet for sourcing news
(iv) The male versus women reporters' behavior towards different news sources

Please view the full report at www.slideshare.net/2020MSL/mediainsights-report

About Indian Institute of Mass Communication

The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) is India's premier institute for training, teaching and research in mass communication. Set up by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India in 1965 on the recommendation of a team of internationally known mass communication specialists from UNESCO and the Ford Foundation the objective of the Institute is to impart quality education and training and to conduct research with special reference to the socio-economic development in the country. IIMC is the only country-wide institution in the field, with a presence in all the regions of the country, including Regional Centres in Aizawl, Amravati, Dhenkanal, Jammu and Kottayam, apart from the Headquarters in New Delhi. The Institute also counducts courses and training programmes for international professionals on behalf of the Ministry of External Affairs.

About 20:20 MSL:

20:20 MSL is one of India's largest multidiscipline communications firms and a leader in the area of specialty communications services including corporate reputation management, strategic media relations, analyst relations, social media, crisis and issues management, events and activation services. The firm is also the acknowledged leader in technology communications space in India. Through its powerful network of more than 150 staff across offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Pune, as well as the reach of the MSLGROUP and Publicis Groupe international network, 20:20 MSL partners with more than 100 leading Indian brands and multinationals to deliver world-class communications.

About MSLGROUP Asia:

For 23 years, MSLGROUP's Asia team has counseled global, regional and local clients, helping them establish, protect and expand their businesses and brands across this fast-growing region. Today, MSLGROUP has the largest PR, social media and events teams in Greater China (16 offices and 1,000 colleagues) and India (16 offices and 550 colleagues) and is actively working to lead the development of the industry with the regular publication of whitepapers/reports and innovative Learning & People Development programs to nurture talent. The MSLGROUP Asia team includes 38 owned offices and 1,675 colleagues in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. An activation network of colleagues reaches an additional 125 Indian and 100 Chinese cities and a strong affiliate partner network adds another 23 Asian cities to our reach. MSLGROUP Asia's teams have been recognized as leaders by multiple industry groups, including most recently Hanmer MSL India ('PR Agency of the Year 2011' by PRCAI), Luminous ('Local Hero/Agency of the Year 2010' by Marketing Events Asia), Genedigi Group China ('Innovative China SMEs' by Forbes China), ICL MSL Taiwan ('Agency of the Year 2011' by Taiwan Advertiser Associate), and has won more than 50 awards in the last two years.
Source: Business Wire India 

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