Looking back at Nghe An Press Awards 2015

(Baonghean.vn) - The 25 award-winning works of this year's journalism are worthy of being outstanding works, representing 139 works of various journalism types participating in the Award.

On June 14, Nghe An province held a ceremony to celebrate the 91st anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day and awarded the Nghe An Press Awards 2015. There were 22 press works out of a total of 120 participating works that won awards; including 02 First prizes, 03 Second prizes, 08 Third prizes and 12 Encouragement prizes.

According to Mr. Nguyen Ba Hao - Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Communications, Chairman of the Award Judging Council, with the responsibility of an advisory agency, the Department of Information and Communications has made many efforts to increasingly improve the regulations of the award, aiming to improve the quality of the press award year after year. This year, the Award Judging Council has made some additions and adjustments to regulations such as the award structure, scoring scale, members of the Organizing Committee, the Jury, the Secretariat are not allowed to participate in the competition...

Provincial leaders awarded the First Prize of Nghe An Press Award 2015.

In order to encourage authors and journalistic works to closely follow the vivid reality of the province, the Regulations have paid special attention to prioritizing works that discover or warn of new issues related to the propaganda of the province's socio-economic development policies, Party building, or journalistic works that create widespread social effects, attract public attention, and bring legitimate benefits to the people.

Therefore, it can be said that the 25 award-winning works this year are worthy of being typical works, representing 139 works of various types of journalism participating in the Award.

According to the evaluation of the Judging Council, the overall quality of the works is relatively even, some works are carefully invested, choose the issues to reflect and have a clear ideological orientation, bringing about clear propaganda effects. The most fierce competition is in the print newspaper category.

Press agencies and reporters have responded very positively to the provincial press award, considering it a positive action of the province to recognize and honor the hard and arduous work of the journalism profession. This year's Press Award attracted 21 press agencies, 163 reporters and collaborators to participate with 139 works. That proves that the Award has had a widespread influence and is increasingly attracting the attention of press agencies as well as journalists and press collaborators.

The entries mentioned the implementation of the Party's Resolutions: Resolution 26 of the Secretariat on Nghe An, Resolution 30a; models and examples in socio-economic development, national security and defense; propaganda about seas and islands...

The works submitted for the award meet the selection criteria stated in the Nghe An Press Awards Regulations, which are to closely follow the political tasks of the province and the locality in implementing the Resolution of the 11th National Party Congress; the 18th Provincial Party Congress of Nghe An; to promptly, vividly and diversely reflect the economic, social, national security and defense situation of the country and the province. In general, the quality of the works is relatively even, some works are invested in elaborately, choose the issues to reflect and have a clear ideological orientation, bringing about clear propaganda effects.

Many of the award-winning works belong to the province's major propaganda target programs such as: Studying and following the moral example of Ho Chi Minh, hunger eradication and poverty reduction, building new rural areas... Typical works include: "Nghe An fishermen go out to sea" by Ha Nguyen Khoa of Nghe An Newspaper; "The East Sea's waves and the days of going out to sea with fishermen" by Nguyen Xuan Hoa (Collaborator of Vietnam Education Newspaper), "Nghe An - the mark of attracting investment" by Huong Giang (Nghe An Radio and Television Station)... Some professional works are elaborately presented such as the Documentary "From Pac Bo to Ba Dinh" by Thuy Linh, Nhu Phong, Van Nhan (Nghe An Radio and Television Station).

In addition, the works submitted to the Award also mentioned the serious environmental pollution caused by deforestation of upstream forests and indiscriminate mineral exploitation; projects implemented for the wrong purposes; violations in the implementation of regimes and policies for people with meritorious services and some cases of law violations such as: PS Following the traces of loggers destroying protective forests by Nguyen Huu Trong (Nghe An Police Newspaper), Another debt by Thanh Huyen, Le Hang, Mai Thanh (Nghe An Radio and Television Station), Identifying human trafficking criminals by Nguyen Thien Thao (Nghe An Police Newspaper), Pitying Sa Mu by Nhat Lan, Le Viet Long (Nghe An Newspaper), Multi-level marketing still lacks management by Van Anh (Dien Chau Radio and Television Station)...

However, it must be recognized that some works have chosen the issue but the presentation is not sharp. Some authors have only stopped at the level of reflection or description, not reaching the level of analysis and commentary, thus not creating a processing effect, greatly limiting the social criticism effect of journalistic works. There are still some topics that Nghe An province is in great need of the press to reflect on but the works are still few or the quality is not as expected such as the topic of the Campaign and following the moral example of Ho Chi Minh; Implementing the Party's resolutions into life; the topic of solutions to stimulate demand, stabilize and develop the economy...

In order for the Provincial Press Awards to be increasingly effective, to encourage and promote the emulation movement of creative labor of journalists and to discover and nurture journalistic talents in the province, press agencies, reporters and collaborators need to proactively prepare works for the Awards more carefully, invest to improve the quality of works, from choosing topics to performing skills.

Press agencies and representative agencies also need to be more careful in selecting works for the Award to avoid the situation in reality where there are press agencies with good quality works but are not selected for the Award. Press agencies in the province need to widely disseminate the Press Award Regulations for journalists and collaborators to participate, so that the Press Award fully reflects the appearance of the press during the year. In addition, to recognize the contributions of authors whose works have won the Award, the province should also have a preferential policy of raising salaries ahead of schedule for authors who have continuously won the Award for many consecutive years.

Hopefully, with the attention of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Committee, the efforts of the press management agency, and press agencies, there will be many writers with "heart, vision, and talent" contributing more good works to the public, so that we can be proud of a season with many new and better works./.

Lan Oanh