Nghe An Newspaper Journalists Association held the Congress for the 2023 - 2025 term

On the afternoon of August 25, the Nghe An Newspaper Journalists Association held a congress for the 2023-2025 term.

Speaking at the conference, comrade Tran Minh Ngoc - Chairman of Nghe An Provincial Journalists Association acknowledged that in recent years, Nghe An Newspaper has been making very strong changes, becoming one of the local Party newspapers with high traffic and creating a leading mark in the country. To achieve such results is thanks to the efforts of the Editorial Board, the Association as well as the team of cadres and reporters.

Nghe An Newspaper Journalists Association currently has 70 members operating in 7 specialized departments. The Association Secretariat consists of 5 comrades, of which comrade Ngo Duc Kien - Party Secretary, Editor-in-Chief is the Association Secretary.

Faced with the fierce competition of many types of media, during the 2020-2023 term, Nghe An Newspaper has comprehensively and strongly innovated, continued to effectively operate the converged newsroom model, operated the Fanpage system and YouTube and TikTok channels, achieved many high results, and is one of the local Party newspapers with high traffic and created a leading mark in the country.

During the past term, the Association has actively disseminated to reporters and members about the Press Law, ethical regulations for journalists, actively participated in association activities, and made many contributions to the movement of the Provincial Journalists Association. The Association has assigned qualified editors and reporters to conduct dozens of training courses with various contents on print and electronic newspapers to improve the quality of news, articles, and photos to meet the new requirements of the converged newsroom.

In particular, the Association has conducted in-depth training courses such as: Sharing about post-Covid-19 journalism by President of the Vietnam Journalists Association Le Quoc Minh; training on digital transformation of journalism by Vietnamnet e-newspaper experts; training on social network development by VTV Digital...

In addition, members also participated in many study trips and experience exchanges with the Vietnam Journalists Association and press agencies across the country; participated in Google News projects... Thanks to that, the quantity and quality of news articles are increasingly improved, collaborators actively cooperate to complete the daily newspaper, Nghe An Weekend, Nghe An Electronic Newspaper and special issues to celebrate major events of the year, and Tet newspaper.

Notably, in the 3 years 2020-2023, Nghe An Newspaper had 171 works of members winning national, provincial and industry-level journalism awards, an increase of 71 works compared to the 2017-2020 term.

With the achieved results, comrade Tran Van Hung - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper acknowledged and highly appreciated the efforts of the Secretariat of the Association during the past term. During the 2023-2025 term, the Party Committee and Editorial Board of Nghe An Newspaper expect the new Secretariat to continue to comprehensively innovate the association's activities in conjunction with the specialized activities of Nghe An Newspaper, continue to diversify forms of professional training in the association, each member continues to enhance the role and responsibility of a Party journalist, constantly strive, cultivate, practice, and improve professional qualifications.

Comrade Tran Van Hung also wishesIn the coming time, the Association will continue to advise the Editorial Board as well as direct members to improve the quality of works participating in Central and local press awards, and continuously improve the quality of the Golden Moment press award of Nghe An Newspaper.

Speaking at the conference, comrade Nguyen Thanh Tien - former Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper, former Chairman of Nghe An Journalists Association also expressed his confidence in the team of reporters of Nghe An Newspaper.

According to journalist Nguyen Thanh Tien, in the current context, the team of reporters must have enough intelligence, writing power and physical strength to do their job well. Therefore, journalists need to accumulate knowledge regularly and master modern technology to keep up with the development trend of journalism.

The Congress elected the Secretariat of the Nghe An Newspaper Journalists Association for the 2023-2025 term, consisting of 5 comrades. Comrade Nguyen Dinh Sam - Head of the Secretariat Department holds the position of Secretary of the Nghe An Newspaper Journalists Association for the 2023-2025 term and comrade Nguyen Thi An Nhan - Deputy Head of the Secretariat Department holds the position of Deputy Secretary of the Association.

In addition, the conference also commended groups of authors and individuals with outstanding achievements in professional activities and participation in Central journalism awards.