Celebrating 95 years of Than Newspaper, 60 years of Quang Ninh Newspaper's first issue, 40 years of television broadcasting and 5 years of establishing Quang Ninh Provincial Media Center

Attending the ceremony were comrades: Le Quoc Minh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association; Nguyen Xuan Ky - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Quang Ninh province. Also attending were representatives of the Ministry of Information and Communications; Vietnam Television; Vietnam Journalists Association; leaders of departments, branches, localities; representatives of central press agencies and provinces and cities nationwide...

On the side of Nghe An press agencies, there were comrades: Tran Minh Ngoc - Chairman of the Provincial Journalists Association, Director of Nghe An Radio and Television Station; Ngo Duc Kien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Journalists Association, Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper.

At the ceremony, comrade Mai Vu Tuan - Director of the Provincial Media Center, Chairman of the Quang Ninh Provincial Journalists Association emphasized: The history of the establishment of Quang Ninh Press is closely linked to the establishment of Than Newspaper - the first Party newspaper in the mining area, the predecessor of today's Quang Ninh Newspaper since the end of 1928.

Inheriting the tradition of their fathers, over the past 95 years, revolutionary journalism in the Quang Ninh Mining Region has developed continuously. The team of journalists has proactively studied and trained in political qualities, professional ethics, professional expertise, foreign languages, application of information technology, and multimedia journalism skills.

Implementing the direction of the Central Party Secretariat, on December 18, 2018, the Standing Committee of the Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee issued Decision No. 1276-QD/TU, implementing the merger of the province's information and press agencies including: Quang Ninh Newspaper, Quang Ninh Provincial Radio and Television Station, Quang Ninh Provincial General Electronic Information Portal (under the Office of the National Assembly Delegation - People's Council - People's Committee of Quang Ninh Province), Ha Long Newspaper (under the Quang Ninh Provincial Literature and Arts Association).

The decision to establish the Quang Ninh Provincial Media Center is a breakthrough political decision of the Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee, creating the first unified provincial press agency model in the country, continuing to affirm the innovative, creative thinking, drastic and pioneering actions of Quang Ninh province in implementing the viewpoints, guidelines and policies of the Party and State.

Quang Ninh Provincial Media Center is currently maintaining stable media channels on all 4 types of press: television, radio, print newspaper, and electronic newspaper, including: 2 television channels; 2 radio channels; Quang Ninh daily print newspaper, Quang Ninh Weekend newspaper, Ha Long newspaper, Hoa Sen special edition, Quang Ninh electronic newspaper; Quang Ninh Media App, YouTube channel, Fanpage - QMG Quang Ninh news 24/7, TikTok channel, Zalo and operating the provincial Electronic Information Portal.

Up to now, the Quang Ninh Provincial Media Center has been established and put into operation for 5 years. Overcoming difficulties, the Center has quickly gathered human resources and facilities of previous press agencies, diversified types and press products, especially modern media products; increased the number of self-produced news and articles, created information power, propagated and oriented public opinion, opened up opportunities to carry out major media campaigns; mastered the province's official information flow, increased the strength and trust of the people in the leadership of the Party and State.

Speaking at the ceremony, comrade Le Quoc Minh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association acknowledged and praised the achievements that Quang Ninh press has achieved over the past long journey.

In particular, comrade Le Quoc Minh highly appreciated the success of the media center model that Quang Ninh has implemented. He emphasized: In foreign countries, the media group model has existed for a long time. With the development of modern journalism, the boundaries between print, radio, television, electronic and many other forms have become blurred. Press agencies now need to carry out all types of journalism at the same time to be able to easily reach the public. Therefore, the model of merging press agencies into the Quang Ninh Provincial Media Center is a very important direction, a development trend of modern journalism.

In the coming time, comrade Le Quoc Minh hopes that Quang Ninh press will not rest on its laurels, but must continue to strive to rise further. Because with the development of current technology, especially artificial intelligence, the press in the future will face many difficulties. Therefore, if journalists do not prepare a mindset, a learning, an effective way of working, they will lose on the media front./.