Vietnam Journalists Association opens regional specialized conferences in 19 provinces of the Central Highlands

Comrades: Nguyen Duc Loi - former member of the Party Central Committee, former General Director of Vietnam News Agency, Permanent Vice President of Vietnam Journalists Association; Do Thi Thu Hang - member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Professional Department of Vietnam Journalists Association; Tran Minh Ngoc - Director of Nghe An Radio and Television Station, President of Nghe An Provincial Journalists Association co-chaired the conference.

Attending the conference were comrade Tong Van Thanh - Director of the Press and Publishing Department, Central Propaganda Department; representatives of the Press Department of the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Representing the leaders of Nghe An province, there was comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Propaganda Department of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee attending and delivering a welcome speech.

INNOVATION, IMPROVEMENT OF THE QUALITY OF NATIONAL PRESS AWARDS

Before the opening of the conference, the Organizing Committee and delegates attended the conference to support the people of Nghe An province affected by recent floods.

During two days (October 5 and 6, 2023), in Vinh City, the Vietnam Journalists Association organized 4 specialized conferences, including: Conference to summarize 17 years of the National Press Awards and summarize the work of supporting high-quality journalism in 2022; deploy the Program to support high-quality journalism in 2023 and 2024; Conference to review 1 year of the emulation movement to build a cultural environment in press agencies and guide the implementation of the Charter of the Vietnam Journalists Association; summarize the work of managing members who are reporters of press agencies residing in localities; Conference "Press with the work of protecting the Party's ideological foundation in the context of digital transformation"; The conference summarized 6 years of implementing the 2016 Press Law, along with 10 regulations on professional ethics of Vietnamese journalists and rules on using social networks of Vietnamese journalists, with the participation of the Journalists Association of 19 provinces in the Central - Central Highlands region.

On behalf of the provincial leaders, speaking at the conference, Comrade Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Propaganda Department of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee welcomed the leaders of the Vietnam Journalists Association, representatives of leaders of ministries, departments, central agencies and journalists, delegates in the Central - Central Highlands region to attend the conferences held in Vinh City.

Outlining some main characteristics of Nghe An, the results of socio-economic development, Party building and political system of the province in recent times, the Head of the Propaganda Department of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee emphasized: In the successes, in the new mindset of the province's development, there are great contributions and support from the central and local press agencies; there is direction and orientation of press management of the Vietnam Journalists Association, the Provincial Journalists Association; thereby expressing sincere thanks and wishing to continue to receive the companionship and support of press agencies and journalists.

Wishing the specialized conferences of the Vietnam Journalists Association held in Nghe An a success, Head of the Propaganda Department of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Thi Thu Huong also believes that this is an opportunity for journalists from the Central - Central Highlands region to return to Uncle Ho's homeland, learn more about the land and people of Nghe An, to have interesting experiences, helping to spread more widely the beautiful images of Nghe An to everyone.

On the morning of October 5, the Conference to summarize 17 years of the National Press Awards and summarize the work of supporting high-quality press works in 2022; deploy the program to support high-quality press in 2023 and 2024 took place.

Accordingly, appreciating the role, position and importance of the Vietnam Journalists Association in socio-economic life, for many years now, the Party and State have always paid attention to and created conditions for the Association to develop in terms of expertise and profession.

Since 1999, the Prime Minister has issued 3 decisions to support creative activities and improve the quality of literary, artistic and journalistic works.

The work of supporting the creation of high-quality journalistic works has created consensus and competition within the press, creating works of depth that deeply reflect all aspects of social life.

Many articles are increasingly combative, educational, and highly oriented towards political ideology, contributing to the stability and development of society, thereby more clearly affirming the role, responsibility and civic duty of journalists.

This is also the source for localities to select quality works to participate in the annual National Press Awards and have won many high awards in recent years.

Besides, for the National Press Awards, after 17 years of organization, it has attracted more than 20,000 entries nationwide.

The award-winning works are those with serious and elaborate investment, many creative and vivid ways of expression, attracting readers, clearly demonstrating the capacity for digital transformation and journalistic innovation.

MANY HEARTFELT, USEFUL OPINIONS

At the conference, delegates focused on evaluating the results of the National Press Awards over 17 years of implementation, current problems and shortcomings, and solutions and recommendations to improve the quality of the Awards; the scope of encouraged topics and their suitability to the working environment, creating a comfortable creative space for the press, serving well the propaganda work of the Party Committee and local authorities.

Delegates also clarified the contribution of the Program to support the creation of high-quality press works to the consolidation of expertise, improving the professional skills of journalists during their work, enhancing the quality of press agency products, effectively serving the work plans of the unit and the political tasks of the locality; the selection of high-quality press works to participate in the National Press Awards, provincial press awards and other specialized press awards; the processes and regulations in the appraisal of works; contract signing procedures, payment settlement and financial - accounting issues.

At the conference, with a high sense of responsibility, delegates actively contributed opinions, clarified outstanding results as well as difficulties in the process of participating in the annual National Press Awards, proposed solutions to innovate and improve the quality of the Awards, in accordance with the current situation as well as evaluated the implementation of the Program to support high-quality press works in 2022.

In his concluding remarks at the conference, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association Nguyen Duc Loi highly appreciated the discussions and contributions to the two topics: summarizing 17 years of the National Press Awards and summarizing the work of supporting high-quality journalistic works.

These are two practical contents, close to the current press life, especially in the context of rapid changes in press activities in recent years, so summarizing and evaluating play a very important role in improving the quality of works participating in the National Press Awards.

The Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association also emphasized that journalism is first and foremost a profession, demonstrating the responsibility of providing information to society; at the same time, participating in the National Press Awards is participating in the largest and most prestigious professional playground for journalists in the Vietnamese revolutionary press to practice, challenge, update knowledge, and learn from each other's experiences among journalists and press agencies. Therefore, the opinions and suggestions exchanged and discussed at the Conference are very useful for journalists.

Regarding the recommendations and proposals of the Provincial Journalists Associations in the Central Highlands region, especially regarding the work of supporting high-quality journalistic works, comrade Nguyen Duc Loi requested the Office of the Vietnam Journalists Association to coordinate with relevant agencies to resolve and respond to them to the best of their ability.