Hot topics dominate the 9th National Press Award 2014

President Truong Tan Sang speaks at the award ceremony. (Photo: Minh Son/Vietnam+)

Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Mr. Thuan Huu officially announced the results at the 9th National Press Awards Ceremony 2014, which took place on the evening of June 21, in Hanoi.

In particular, the 9th National Press Awards marked a “bumper harvest” year for individual authors with 2 A prizes, 12 B prizes, 18 C prizes and 10 Encouragement prizes. Among the 59 works selected for the final round but not yet awarded, there were also 19 individuals. This is a much more impressive number than previous years.

The most numerous and highest quality works in this year's Awards season are on the topics of Party building, the struggle to protect sovereignty over seas and islands, economic, agricultural and rural issues; the fight against corruption, negativity and wrong, hostile and anti-Party, State and regime viewpoints; overcoming the consequences of natural disasters and floods; development issues associated with environmental protection...

Author Cao Thi Thuy Giang (VietnamPlus) won the C Prize - series of articles "Hazardous medical waste" - Need to end loopholes in paper management, with author Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai. (Photo: Minh Son/Vietnam+)

Some types of awards have good quality works: the group of Reportage, investigative reportage in print newspapers; reportage, investigative reportage on television has more consistent quality; the group of News, reflection articles, memoirs in print newspapers has richer content, many articles are carefully invested; Editorials, comments, and special articles in print newspapers have a reduced number of participants but the content is closer to reality, less academic theory.

Some types of awards are still of weak quality such as: Awards for commentary, exchange, and discussion; Awards for television documentaries (visual journalism); Awards for news, reflections, interviews, discussion, commentary, and special articles (radio) and Awards for press photography.

According to the organizing committee, this year's Award Council received 1,468 entries from 62/63 Provincial and Municipal Journalists Associations, 18/19 Inter-Associations and 37 Central Journalists Associations. Through 8 seasons, this is the third consecutive year with the highest number of entries, at over and under 1,500 entries.

Prize A of 9 categories-type of prize:

1/ The A prize in the Print Newspaper category for news, reflections and interviews belongs to the series of articles "Vietnam affirms sovereignty with convincing legal evidence" (People's Army Newspaper).

2/ A Prize for Print Newspaper in the categories of Reportage, Investigative Reportage, Journalism, and Notes belongs to the series of articles "Reflections from Hot Coordinates" (New Energy Newspaper).

3/ The A Prize for Press Photo belongs to the photo group "Successful rescue of 12 workers in an accident at the Da Dang hydroelectric tunnel, Lam Dong (Vietnam News Agency).

4/ The A Prize for Radio in the category of News, reflections, interviews, comments, specials, talks, and general radio topics belongs to the series "Ho Chi Minh's Testament - Testament about people, for people (Voice of Vietnam).

5/ A Prize for Radio in the category of Reportage, investigative reportage, radio memoirs belongs to the series of articles "Political propaganda, promulgating laws for workers, must sprint (Dong Nai Province Journalists Association).

6/ A Prize for Television in the category of News, reportage, and documentary on the issue of "Innovation in the Party's leadership method - Viewed from the new streamlining of the staffing apparatus in Quang Ninh province", by the Quang Ninh Provincial Journalists Association.

7/ The A prize for the category of Commentary, Exchange and Discussion in Television belongs to the work "Historical memories of the 60th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory" (Hanoi Television).

8/ The A Prize in the Documentary category belongs to the work "From heart to heart" of Ho Chi Minh City Television Station.

9/ The A prize in the category of News, articles, reflections, interviews, and comments for the series of articles “Sam Lang’s story: Crawling into a plastic bag to… cross the stream” by Tuoi Tre online newspaper.

10/ The category of editorials, comments, essays, and journalistic skits in printed newspapers does not have an A prize.

11/ The category of investigative reporting, journalistic reports, and notes on electronic newspapers does not have an A prize.

According to VNA