Nghe An Province awarded the 2019 Traffic Safety Journalism Award
(Baonghean.vn) - The contest's jury unanimously presented to the Provincial People's Committee 18 winning works, including 2 Second prizes, 7 Third prizes, and 9 Encouragement prizes. The Nghe An Newspaper reporter group won Third prize.
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On the morning of July 9, the Provincial People's Committee held the 2019 Traffic Safety Journalism Award Ceremony. Attending the award ceremony were: Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Committee; Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, and representatives of departments and branches. Photo: Pham Bang |
Nghe An Province Traffic Safety Journalism Award is a specialized journalism award organized annually by the Provincial People's Committee. The award has great appeal and influence, meeting the requirements of politics, society and timeliness of one of the fields of socio-economic development.
Sticking to the theme of Traffic Safety Year 2019: "Traffic safety for passengers and motorcyclists", the selected works have good propaganda content, high discovery, creativity, ensuring authenticity, humanity and popularity, contributing to raising people's awareness in ensuring traffic safety and order in the province.
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Comrade Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded the Second Prize to the authors who won the 2019 Nghe An Province Traffic Safety Journalism Award. Photo: Pham Bang |
The Organizing Committee received nearly 50 works from many participating press agencies. After many rounds of judging and discussion, the Jury unanimously presented to the Provincial People's Committee 18 winning works, including 2 Second prizes (no First prize), 7 Third prizes, 9 Encouragement prizes. The Nghe An Newspaper reporter group won Third prize with a series of articles "The persistent, painful problem of illegal taxis".
The Provincial Traffic Safety Journalism Award Council assessed that this year's award has many new features, with press agencies actively participating such as: Nghe An Newspaper, Nghe An Radio and Television Station, Nghe An Police Newspaper, Dien Chau Radio and Television Station... with all types of journalism.
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The Organizing Committee awarded Third Prize to the authors. Photo: Pham Bang |
The works have shown meticulous research from the theme to the way of expression. Many genres of works such as reportage, reflection on hot current events, exploited from many angles, bring readers, viewers, listeners very clear messages and at the same time are imbued with deep humanity.
At the same time, the works also praised good individuals and groups, good deeds, good, creative and effective ways of improving traffic safety work; and at the same time reflected the shortcomings in this field.
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Leaders of the Provincial Police and the Department of Transport awarded the Encouragement Prize to the authors. Photo: Pham Bang |
However, the number of works, authors and press agencies with works participating in the award is still small. Authors are not really interested in selecting works to participate in the award. Some journalists are not interested in exploiting the topic of traffic safety, the topic is still limited.
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List of authors and groups of authors winning the Provincial Traffic Safety Journalism Award in 2019. Photo: Pham Bang |