Spreading the Nghe An Newspaper brand

On the morning of July 17, Nghe An Newspaper held a conference to review Party building and professional work in the first 6 months of the year and deploy tasks for the last 6 months of 2020.

Comrade Pham Thi Hong Toan - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Party Secretary, Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper chaired the conference. Photo: Duc Anh

Reached over 1 million hits/day

In the first 6 months of 2020, in the context of many intertwined difficulties, under the leadership of the Party Committee, the Editorial Board, together with the spirit of collaboration, solidarity, support, active interaction, and the efforts of each department and each job position, the activities of Nghe An Newspaper not only ensured stability but also achieved clear growth and development.

Outstanding, many topics, in-depth series of articles, good propaganda effects, bold, highlighting the activities of the Party Committee, government, levels and sectors for outstanding political tasks: Year of Party Congresses at all levels, Year of even-numbered anniversaries of many historical events, birthdays of famous people of the homeland and nation.

In the first 6 months of the year, Nghe An Newspaper published many series of articles and many specialized topics that were both topical and topical, solving many practical problems, contributing to positively impacting the leadership, administration and social management to successfully implement the province's socio-economic targets.

The editorial office has published 182 daily issues (an increase of 1 issue compared to the same period), 26 weekend issues, including 4 special issues. Continue to innovate special pages, replace many columns to serve the focus of the Party Congress year at all levels, anniversaries and birthdays of famous people in even years. Currently, the printed newspaper has a total of 45 columns, 28 special pages, and the electronic newspaper has 19 columns.

From January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020, there were 6,510 news articles, an average of 36.16 works/day (in the first 6 months of 2019, there were 10,634 news articles, an average of 59.07 news articles/day.

Visits in the first 6 months of 2020 increased by 143.83% over the same period.

A notable highlight is creating a new milestone in the growth of electronic newspaper publishing, in which on March 12, 2020, it reached a milestone of more than 1 million visits.

Officials, reporters and staff of Nghe An Newspaper attended the conference. Photo: Duc Anh

The application of the Publishing Code and the operation of the Convergence Editorial Office are increasingly dynamic, flexible and smooth. The coordination between the publishing department, specialized departments and distribution departments is increasingly specific.

Forming agile, creative working teams, proactively addressing emerging issues, creating frequent and widespread interaction between the editorial office and readers.

Comrade Tran Van Hung - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper reported on the summary of Party building work in the first 6 months of the year and deployed tasks for the last 6 months of 2020. Photo: Duc Anh

In the context of increasingly diverse information and rich social network development, Nghe An Newspaper still strives to maintain its position as a leading press agency in bringing the Party's policies and guidelines and State laws into life; comprehensively reflecting the socio-economic life in the area.

Propaganda in all fields has been innovated and improved in efficiency. Propaganda is carried out in depth with the dual task of both preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic and developing the economy and society. Nghe An Newspaper is always present on the front line of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic.

Many touching and genuine articles about the military-civilian relationship, the great national solidarity, the people's hearts and the Party's will in mobilizing human and material resources to support areas organizing quarantine for immigrants.

Comrade Ngo Duc Kien - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper reported on the results of professional work in the first 6 months of the year and deployed tasks for the last 6 months of 2020. Photo: Duc Anh

The launch of Nghe An Newspaper YouTube channel creates a new look and new interaction capabilities, currently has 24,800 subscribers. This is an open direction, creating new propaganda channels, while participating in the autonomous mission with a long-term vision.

The Association, Trade Union and Youth Union organizations all closely follow their functions and tasks, making many efforts to choose appropriate activities in the specific context, and maintaining the movement.

Head of the Current Affairs - Politics Department Ngo Duc Chuyen spoke at the conference. Photo: Duc Anh

The emulation and reward work has also been promoted and implemented effectively by the editorial office, creating motivation to promote the completion of the agency's professional tasks. In the first 6 months of the year, 151 works of good quality, high traffic, good effects and 89 quality issues and beautiful newspaper pages were rewarded.

Social activities are taken care of by the editorial office, officers, reporters and employees have actively participated in the agency's activities such as: donating 35 million VND to the Covid-19 prevention and control fund (transferred to the provincial Fatherland Front); receiving 20 million VND to support 2 orphaned children with brain tumors in Thanh Chuong, through these activities increasing recognition and promoting the brand of Nghe An Newspaper...

Head of Distribution - Social Activities Department Tran Thi Thu Phuong spoke at the conference. Photo: Duc Anh

The Associations, Trade Unions, and Youth Unions have maintained good social work activities. From articles about the addresses that need help and care, the Social and Charity sections on electronic newspapers reflect on especially difficult circumstances, tragic lives... have called for sharing and help from the social community and philanthropists to those difficult circumstances.

Continue to increase the spread of Nghe An Newspaper brand

In her concluding remarks at the conference, comrade Pham Thi Hong Toan - Party Secretary and Editor-in-Chief emphasized that in the last 6 months of 2020, the editorial office will focus on successfully implementing the targets and tasks of the Party Congresses at all levels for the 2015-2020 term.

Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper Pham Thi Hong Toan awarded two groups with outstanding achievements in the first 6 months of the year. Photo: Duc Anh

Nghe An Newspaper Editorial Board awarded individuals with outstanding achievements in the first 6 months of 2020. Photo: Duc Anh

Continue to innovate forms and contents to effectively propagate key tasks, focusing on propagating major topics: Congresses at the grassroots level, the 19th Provincial Party Congress and the 13th National Party Congress; 75th anniversary of National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 90th anniversary of Nghe Tinh Soviet, 990th anniversary of Nghe An's name; Nghe An Patriotic Emulation Congress 2015 - 2020...

In particular, the Party Committee and the Editorial Board lead the specialized departments to focus on implementing specialized topics to enhance the strength and effectiveness of propaganda work, aiming to produce many quality press works to participate in central and local press awards with higher prizes. Ensure timely publication of printed newspapers, increase quality; minimize errors in newspapers.

Comrade Pham Thi Hong Toan presented awards to the authors who won the National Press Awards. Photo: Duc Anh

Continue to research, discover and implement new ideas and methods to innovate publishing features and presentation formats of publications to increase interaction, promotion, and spread of Nghe An Newspaper to boost growth of traditional and non-traditional advertising revenue sources. Take care of the section managed by the department and actively produce news, articles, clips, etc. on the Fanpage.

Comrade Tran Van Hung - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper awarded prizes to authors whose works won journalism awards. Photo: Duc Anh

Along with that is maintaining a stable circulation, especially at the beginning of the third quarter and the end of the calendar year, schools and units in the education sector often cut down on subscriptions, leading to a decrease in circulation.

Develop and implement plans to inspect and supervise the publication and use of newspapers in localities to monitor and improve the quality of delivery and the effectiveness of newspaper use.

Comrade Tran Huu Nghia - Deputy Editor-in-Chief presented awards to the authors who won journalism awards. Photo: Duc Anh

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper Ngo Duc Kien presents awards to authors who won journalism awards. Photo: Duc Anh

At the same time, the editorial office continues to pay attention to training, fostering and improving the quality of the team, especially the key quality. Continue to maintain and promote the position of the Labor Hero unit in the renovation period and orient to build a reporter of Nghe An Newspaper to become an individual Labor Hero in the renovation period.

With the efforts of collectives and individuals, close supervision and smooth operation of the system, in the first 6 months of 2020, many publications published in Nghe An Newspaper have won many press awards from the Central to the provincial and industry levels.

The total number of works is 44, an increase of 14 works awarded and honored.

1 National Third Prize.

1 Second Prize of the Central Youth Union;

10 Nghe An Journalism Awards;

9 Golden Hammer and Sickle Awards of Nghe An;

8 awards for studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle;

9 writing prizes on Covid-19;

1 prize in the transport industry;

2 photo exhibitions of national press moments;

1 work in the national Covid-19 photo exhibition;

2 Spring Newspaper Awards Canh Ty;

1 journalist was honored as a National Exemplary Journalist.