Nghe An Newspaper won the National Press Award for Traffic Safety Propaganda in 2 categories.
On the evening of December 8, in Hanoi, the National Traffic Safety Committee held the 2024 Traffic Safety Journalism and Propaganda Awards Ceremony.
Attending the award ceremony were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Sang - Deputy Minister of Transport; Le Kim Thanh - Vice Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee.
Also attending were representatives of central ministries, departments and branches; leaders of central and local press agencies, and authors and groups of authors whose works were honored at the Award Ceremony.
The Traffic Safety Journalism Award is an annual activity, held since 2012. This activity aims to commend, honor, encourage and reward promptly authors and journalistic works that are valuable in content, form, impact and positive spread to society in the work of ensuring traffic order and safety; thereby, encouraging and motivating press agencies and journalists to actively participate in the work of propagating and disseminating laws on traffic order and safety, contributing to the sustainable reduction of traffic accidents nationwide.
In 2024, the traffic safety propaganda press award attracted more than 700 works from reporters and groups of reporters from press agencies across the country. The entries followed the theme of Traffic Safety Year 2024 and objectively, vividly and in-depthly reflected hot issues, attracting the attention of the public such as violations related to alcohol concentration; overloaded vehicles; handling black spots;... Many works discovered typical examples, creative models, good experiences in ensuring traffic order and safety...
Accordingly, 204 works entered the final round and the Judging Council selected 66 best works to award first, second, third and consolation prizes in the categories of print, electronic, visual, audio and photo journalism.
Nghe An Newspaper has 2 works winning the Encouragement Prize, including: Clip"The hidden danger from bulky cargo vehicles"by authors Dang Cuong - Dinh Tuyen; Emagazine about the series of articles Controlling and handling alcohol concentration violations, creating the habit of "Do not drive after drinking alcohol" by authors Khanh Ly - Dang Cuong.
Speaking at the award ceremony, Mr. Le Kim Thanh - Vice Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee emphasized the role of press works in bringing legal regulations and traffic safety messages to the masses. Thereby, contributing to raising awareness and creating positive changes in the behavior of traffic participants.
At the same time, it should be noted that in the coming time, the number of vehicles will continue to increase, while the conditions and capacity of infrastructure are still limited, creating huge challenges for the work of ensuring traffic order and safety. The National Traffic Safety Committee and the Ministry of Transport hope that press agencies and journalists will continue to pay attention, stick together, and join hands in the work of traffic safety propaganda and building a culture of safe traffic. Actively participate in responding to the traffic safety propaganda press award to have more and more entries, more good works and win higher prizes.
At the ceremony, the National Traffic Safety Committee officially launched the 2025 Traffic Safety Journalism and Propaganda Award.
