Nghe An Newspaper promotes convergence across all 4 publications

On the morning of December 6, under the chairmanship of comrade Pham Thi Hong Toan - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Party Secretary, Editor-in-Chief, Nghe An Newspaper held a conference to summarize the work of 2019 and deploy plans and tasks for 2020. Attending were comrades Deputy Editor-in-Chief, officers, reporters and staff of Nghe An Newspaper. Photo: Dao Tuan

Complete machine

In 2019, the professional work of Nghe An Newspaper recorded many outstanding results. It can be affirmed that this is the year marking a fairly basic and comprehensive improvement of the apparatus of Nghe An Newspaper in the spirit of Resolution 6 of the Central Committee (term XII) on streamlining and rearranging the apparatus to move towards new stability, ensuring the flexible operation of the newspaper production chain. The newspaper has reduced 1 department, arranged many rotations of cadres, reporters, employees and special collaborators; up to now, Nghe An Newspaper has 72 cadres, reporters and 19 special collaborators.

Compared to the 2019 work plan, Nghe An Newspaper achieved and exceeded 9/10 targets. As of December 6, 2019, 297 daily issues, 48 ​​weekend issues, and 4 special issues have been published.

Comrade Ngo Duc Kien - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper reported on the results of professional work in 2019. Photo: Dao Tuan

Nghe An Newspaper continues to have many innovations and breakthroughs, including 6 major breakthroughs: Improving quality by reducing the number of news and articles and increasing access; Being recognized by the Provincial People's Committee for 2 experience initiatives; Building the Nghe An Newspaper Brand Identity Project; Officially operating its own YouTube channel; The quality of printed and electronic newspaper presentation continues to have breakthroughs and many new sections are opened.

Building on previous achievements, Nghe An Newspaper continues to strive to organize fast, modern, and interactive operations; during the year, 36 special topics and series of articles were published; publishing and advertising activities had many efforts; training, education, and social work had many new points...

In addition, there are still some shortcomings and limitations that have been identified. That is, there are still some job positions that are not up to the task, there are still individuals who violate publishing rules, some reporters are not proactive, do not stick to the base, do not have many good news and articles, do not have many in-depth topics. There are still news, articles, and photos in print and online newspapers of poor quality...

The conference received many opinions from officials, reporters and employees of Nghe An Newspaper, especially the young team, proposing contents that need to be innovated, solutions to implement the plan and tasks for 2020.

Comrade Pham Thi Hong Toan - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Party Secretary, Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper spoke at the conference. Photo: Dao Tuan

Convergence of 4 publications, no waste of resources

Concluding the conference, the Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper reaffirmed that although 2019 was a year of many difficulties and changes, the editorial office of Nghe An Newspaper had made turning points and developments. That result was thanks to the methods, approaches and trust in the capacity of the collective as well as each individual in the Editorial Board, reporters and staff.

Comrade Pham Thi Hong Toan noted some important highlights, that is, Nghe An Newspaper has officially operated publishing rules, built a Brand Identity Project to officially implement from 2020. Notably, Nghe An Newspaper has officially announced and operated Nghe An Newspaper Youtube channel.

Awarding young reporters and technicians with many innovations and creations in 2019. Photo: Dao Tuan

“From 2020, we will converge all 4 publications, must fully exploit the resources of the editorial office, not waste information sources”, the Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper emphasized, at the same time setting out the requirement to increase attention to the content, form and presentation of news and articles in print and electronic newspapers, applying technical factors to highlight the works, 100% of reporters must determine the mindset of producing quality news and articles to serve the 4 publications.

Awarding the title of Provincial Emulation Fighter to 2 individuals. Photo: Dao Tuan

Editor-in-Chief of Nghe An Newspaper Pham Thi Hong Toan presented titles to officers and reporters who achieved the title of Emulation Fighter at the grassroots level. Photo: Dao Tuan

Regarding the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus, the leaders of Nghe An Newspaper determined that this is something that needs to continue to be done, but not through mechanically reducing the number of employees, but increasing the number of concurrent positions, eliminating those who are not capable, do not maximize their work efficiency, and preventing the situation of "going to work with an umbrella in the morning and going home with an umbrella in the evening".

Awarding Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee to authors and groups of authors who won the Central Journalism Awards in 2019. Photo: Dao Tuan

Editor-in-Chief Pham Thi Hong Toan presented Certificates of Merit to two outstanding groups. Photo: Dao Tuan

Thu Giang