"Need to arrange and plan the capital's press according to the right roadmap"

The Hanoi People's Committee needs to arrange and plan the capital's press according to the roadmap, focusing on solutions for journalists who no longer have jobs when gradually reducing the number of press agencies, ensuring that it does not cause major disruption.

That was one of the proposals made by Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan at the working session on the morning of October 17, 2015, between the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Hanoi People's Committee on the plan to arrange and plan the press in Hanoi in the spirit of the Project on Planning for development and management of the national press until 2025 (abbreviated as the Press Planning).

Attending the meeting were comrade Le Hong Son, Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee; leaders of Hanoi Party Committee's Propaganda Department; leaders of Hanoi Department of Information and Communications.

Deputy Minister Truong Minh Tuan listened to the leaders of Hanoi People's Committee report on the plan to arrange and plan the city's press in the spirit of the Press Planning Project, as well as recommendations and proposals to the Government and the Ministry of Information and Communications in the implementation.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan spoke at a working session with the Hanoi People's Committee on the morning of October 17, 2015 on the plan to arrange and plan the press in the capital. Photo: Xuan Loc.

On behalf of the leaders of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Deputy Minister Truong Minh Tuan highly appreciated the initiative and responsibility of the Hanoi People's Committee in developing the planning and arrangement of the city's press in the spirit of the Press Planning Project. The Hanoi People's Committee has taken specific steps and a roadmap in accordance with the direction of the Prime Minister.

Deputy Minister Truong Minh Tuan also stated clearly that the goal of the Press Planning Project is to arrange press agencies appropriately, overcome the situation of overlapping, dispersion of investment, lax management, activities far from the purpose... thereby helping the press develop strongly. Therefore, when arranging the press planning, the Hanoi People's Committee needs to carefully consider which newspapers often violate, far from the purpose, and must clearly define the leadership and management responsibilities of Party committees and authorities at all levels, as well as the heads of the governing bodies and press agencies.

Deputy Minister Truong Minh Tuan and functional units under the Ministry frankly raised a number of issues that the Hanoi People's Committee needs to focus on when rearranging and planning the press in the area. In particular, it is necessary to thoroughly grasp the Party's consistent guiding viewpoint in developing the press career and in the spirit of the Press Planning Project.

"The Hanoi People's Committee needs to arrange and plan the capital's press according to the roadmap and report to the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the Hanoi People's Committee to proceed with the arrangement in the spirit of the Planning Project. Accordingly, easy things should be done first, difficult things later; focus on ideological work, financial solutions, solutions for journalists who no longer have a place to work when the number of press agencies is gradually reduced, ensuring that no major disruption is caused; pay attention to and create conditions for the press to develop stably and sustainably.

On the other hand, the Hanoi People's Committee needs to clearly identify in the capital's press planning which newspapers need investment, and must focus on investing systematically, with focus and key points and achieving high results, avoiding wasting resources," Deputy Minister Truong Minh Tuan suggested.

"Regarding the specific arrangement plan for press types, it is necessary to classify, delineate, clearly determine the time and level of implementation, there needs to be a focus, key points, attention to the specific characteristics of a number of press agencies with large circulation and audience, wide social influence, and a specific, tight, and certain roadmap and steps," Deputy Minister Truong Minh Tuan added./.

According to Infonet