Nghe An Newspaper receives the Government's Emulation Flag

Attending the meeting and discussion were comrade Bui Thanh An - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Viet Hung - Director of the Department of Home Affairs; representatives of leaders of provincial departments, branches and sectors.

On the side of Nghe An Newspaper's leadership, there were comrades: Ngo Duc Kien - Party Secretary, Editor-in-Chief; Deputy Editors-in-Chief: Tran Van Hung, Tran Huu Nghia, Nguyen Thi Thu Huong. Also attending were former leaders of Nghe An Newspaper and many generations of reporters, editors, staff, and collaborators of the editorial office through the periods.

In his opening speech at the seminar, comrade Ngo Duc Kien - Party Secretary, Editor-in-Chief presented at the ceremony affirming: After 62 years of establishment and development, Nghe An Newspaper has always promoted its position as a newspaper born on the land of red address for revolution. In all circumstances, Nghe An Newspaper always strives to carry out with the highest efficiency the principles, purposes, functions and tasks assigned as the mouthpiece of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee; an important force on the political and ideological front of the Party; a forum of the people.

On the journey of many hardships, challenges but also full of glory, Nghe An Newspaper always closely follows the great tasks of the province; information and propaganda about the leadership and management of the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Committee, all levels, branches; the political system, our army and people in successfully implementing the Resolutions of the Party Congresses at all levels; emulation movements in labor, production, encouraging creative and innovative factors, typical examples in movements, units, localities. Along with that, well performing the tasks of propaganda, orientation, providing fast, timely and accurate information to readers, creating solidarity and unanimity among cadres, party members and consensus and support of the masses.

Since its inception on November 10, 1961, the formation and development process of Nghe An Newspaper over the past 62 years has recorded the efforts and contributions of many generations of cadres, reporters and employees from war to peace, the cause of national renewal and the current period of deep integration.

In recent years, Nghe An Newspaper has made great strides in development, with the orientation of becoming a multimedia press agency, closely following the development trends of domestic and foreign press. Nghe An Newspaper has quickly grasped and soon implemented digital transformation.

Currently, in addition to innovating daily newspapers, weekend newspapers and mountain newspapers, Nghe An electronic newspaper publishes an average of 47.78 news and articles per day. Since the beginning of the year, Nghe An Newspaper has carried out 48 in-depth topics; the Nghe An Newspaper ecosystem has been formed with impressively developed digital platforms: YouTube has a unique international commentary brand, many products have millions of followers; podcasts attract millions of listens; short videos have just been released but have over 1 million views.

Printed newspaper with 20 special pages; 52 columns; electronic newspaper with 30 columns,... in the context of limited human resources but still strongly transforming towards digital transformation.

The newspaper's position has also been increasingly affirmed through central and local press awards. Since the beginning of 2023, many collectives, authors and works have won high prizes at national press competitions. In particular, Nghe An Newspaper has been awarded the C prize of the National Press Award; the Excellent Collective Award at the National Golden Hammer and Sickle Award; the B prize of the Dien Hong Award; the B prize of the National Political Writing Competition; the Encouragement Prize of the National Press Award for Foreign Information, the National Press Award for Anti-Corruption, etc.; along with many First, Second and Third prizes of Nghe An Provincial Press Awards.

In addition to professional activities, Nghe An Newspaper has demonstrated its social responsibility, developed many activities behind the newspaper, especially social security activities, participated in the movements "Repaying gratitude", "For the poor", "Warm Tet in the West"... Including practical activities such as: Receiving care and support for Vietnamese Heroic Mothers; helping poor Xieng My commune become a commune with a comprehensive development movement; organizing the traditional Provincial Youth - Children's Football Tournament;...

The tireless efforts of the Nghe An Newspaper collective over the past 62 years have been recognized by the Party and the State, by deciding to award noble medals and orders, especially the title of Labor Hero in the renovation period, along with many Medals, Certificates of Merit, and annual national press awards. Especially on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of its establishment, Nghe An Newspaper was honored to receive the Emulation Flag from the Government.

Receiving the Government's Emulation Flag continues to be a great encouragement and motivation for the collective of cadres, reporters and employees of Nghe An Newspaper, to continue to constantly update and innovate modern and professional working methods; become a powerful voice on the platforms of Party building contents, protecting the Party's ideological foundation; uphold the fighting spirit to protect the law, protect justice; protect revolutionary historical values, cultural and humanistic values. Better perform the role of orienting information and public opinion, in order to encourage the entire Party, the entire army and the entire people to successfully carry out the task of building the homeland and the country.

“Promoting the glorious tradition of the past 62 years, the collective of cadres and reporters of Nghe An Newspaper will strive to excellently complete the assigned political tasks, meet the requirements, expectations and trust of readers for the Party newspaper in the homeland of beloved Uncle Ho - the founder of Vietnam's revolutionary journalism; contribute to building Vietnam's revolutionary journalism to be increasingly "professional, humane and modern"; at the same time successfully implement the policies of the Party, the State and Nghe An province on digital transformation in the 4.0 industrial revolution. Nghe An Newspaper is making every effort to resolutely implement the orientation of becoming a multimedia press agency with a strong brand and great interactive effects.

Continue to do better in the role of "bridge", both propagating the Party's guidelines and policies and the State's laws, and being a forum to listen to people's opinions on Party building and the political system; contributing to building Nghe An homeland to develop more and more, soon becoming the economic, cultural and social center of the North Central region in the spirit of Resolution 39-NQ/TW of the Politburo" - Comrade Ngo Duc Kien emphasized.