Speaker

Founder, Gaon Connection
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Neelesh Misra occupies a unique space among communications professionals and his work has had a diverse impact in India. His work straddles many worlds. He is the Founder of Gaon Connection, India’s biggest rural media platform that reaches 23 million people every month across digital and print platforms. He has led the creation of the Gaon Connection brand and brought rural issues and audiences within easy reach through a series of innovations that combine its ground reach as well as digital reach. The bedrock of Gaon Connection is its swiftly expanding cadre of digital-era community resource persons who are part of its “Swayam Project”, also creating a training hub for the mentoring of community journalists in new-age media tools. He is India’s most loved oral storyteller who revived storytelling and is one of the main contributors to the revival of radio listening in India over the past decade. He is the biggest innovator in the audio space in recent times. Mr. Misra also commands huge popularity in the digital universe. He conservatively reaches more than 100 million monthly listeners across platforms including Big FM, Radio Mirchi, Red FM, All India Radio, Saavn and Gaana. https://neeleshmisra.com/