123 works honored at the 17th National Press Awards Ceremony - 2022

NDO - On the evening of June 21, the 17th National Press Awards Ceremony - 2022 was held in Hanoi , on the occasion of the 98th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day. President Vo Van Thuong attended the award ceremony.

President Vo Van Thuong and Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia presented the A prize to the authors and representatives of the winning author groups.

Also attending were Party Central Committee Secretary, Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia; Party Central Committee members: Tran Luu Quang, Deputy Prime Minister; Tran Quang Phuong, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly; Le Quoc Minh, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association , along with leaders of central departments, ministries, branches, and leaders of news agencies and newspapers.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue sent congratulatory flower baskets.

Of the total 123 outstanding press works honored at the ceremony, the People's Newspaper Journalists Association was honored to contribute 6 works, including 1 work winning the A prize, 2 works winning the B prize, 2 works winning the C prize and 1 work winning the Encouragement prize.

The press must try harder to be worthy of the people's trust.

Speaking at the award ceremony, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, President Vo Van Thuong sent his best wishes to journalists at home and abroad on the occasion of the 98th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day.

Reviewing the heroic tradition of Vietnam's revolutionary press, President Vo Van Thuong affirmed that the press is a reliable and pioneering force of the Party and State, taking the lead on all ideological and cultural fronts, making important contributions to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland and building the spiritual foundation of society.

The President emphasized that in 2022, the press accompanied the entire Party, people and army in socio-economic recovery and development.

The President expressed his joy that the National Press Awards are receiving more and more attention and participation from the press and public; and highly appreciated the works that won the 2022 Award.

The journalistic works have been invested seriously and elaborately, with many creative, vivid and attractive ways of expression, clearly demonstrating the capacity for digital transformation and journalistic innovation. Many journalistic works are exploratory, highly combative, sharp, scientifically critical, propose practical solutions, provide positive information, have the power to spread, move and inspire strongly in society.

President Vo Van Thuong speaks at the award ceremony. (Photo: DUY LINH)

The President noted that we are also in the pivotal year of the 13th National Party Congress with many great tasks requiring political determination and greater efforts to realize the aspirations and visions for national development in the new period, posing increasingly heavy tasks, honors and responsibilities for the Vietnamese revolutionary press, requiring journalists and press agencies to make more efforts to be worthy of the people's trust, meeting the requirements: "Building a professional, humane and modern press and media".

The President requested that press agencies and journalists must be highly aware of their responsibility to the Party, the State, the people, and the readers for the mission they undertake. Journalists must always be deeply aware that “doing journalism is doing revolution, journalists are pioneers on the ideological and cultural front of the Party”, “the duty of journalism is to serve the people, to serve the revolution” as President Ho Chi Minh once advised.

On the basis of being steadfast in the ideals and noble values ​​of journalism, adhering to basic principles, preserving core values, professional ideals, pure and humane professional ethics, upholding social responsibility, constantly being creative, providing timely, accurate, objective, truthful, useful and trustworthy information to the Party, State and people.

Second, the team of journalists continues to demonstrate their mettle, dedication, and leadership in major, new, and difficult issues of the country, closely following the vivid realities of social life, the cause of innovation, national construction, and defense, promptly and vividly reflecting the great and historically significant achievements that the country has achieved under the leadership of the Party.

Propagating the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, providing useful information, raising people's knowledge, expanding social democracy, promoting the role of the press in monitoring and social criticism. Accompanying the government, businesses, people... in finding solutions to solve problems arising in practice. Attracting the active participation of citizens in building a socialist rule-of-law state, building institutions, formulating policies and legal documents, performing the role of monitoring the power and performance of public duties of officials and civil servants in the administrative apparatus...

Third, the press must be the vanguard, connecting and mobilizing resources, including the intelligence, sense of responsibility and inspiration of dynamism, creativity and dedication of the entire people; nurturing, inspiring and encouraging the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country, the will to overcome difficulties and challenges and optimism and belief in the bright future of the nation; building and promoting the great national unity bloc, creating a strong driving force for development.

Fourth, resolutely fight to contribute to eliminating what still hinders, restrains, and harms the country's development process. In the context of increasingly diverse and multi-dimensional information, many new and unverified issues, false information, and plots to take advantage of freedom and democracy to go against the values ​​and goals that revolutionary journalism has been striving for, the press needs to be proactive, sensitive, detect and forecast issues, firmly protect the Party's ideological foundation, sharply fight against false and hostile arguments, and contribute to consolidating and cultivating people's trust. The press continues to be an important weapon in the fight against corruption, waste, negativity, bureaucracy, and social evils.

Fifth, the press is identified as a component of culture, a leading force in building and developing Vietnamese culture and the Vietnamese people. Each journalist and each press agency must be a typical example, representing culture, a cultural agency, a cultural environment with cultured people, preserving the dignity, pride and self-respect of journalism, overcoming temptations and challenges, putting the interests of the Party, the Fatherland, the people and personal honor on every page, every press product.

Continue to discover and praise typical factors, positive highlights, spread good values, affirm the dignity, soul, mettle, and intelligence of the Vietnamese people, and orient society towards the values ​​of truth, goodness, and beauty. Through the media bridge, enhance the prestige and position of Vietnam, open up opportunities to selectively absorb the quintessence of human culture to enrich the national cultural identity, and strengthen the friendship between the Vietnamese people and progressive, peace-loving people and friends around the world.

Sixth, in the face of the rapid development of science and technology, fierce competition from other information platforms and changes in the public's information reception behavior, each journalist must constantly self-study, self-research, proactively integrate internationally, innovate strongly, practice professionally, provide quality, reliable and convincing information on traditional platforms and especially digital technology platforms, to be able to attract, maintain the trust and respect of the public, conquer and capture the public's attention.

The President believes that with the tradition of loyalty to the Party, attachment to the nation and people, the team of Vietnamese journalists today will grow stronger and stronger, constantly improving their political qualities, professional capacity, and professional ethics, successfully fulfilling their noble mission, being the vanguard force on the ideological and cultural front of the Party, worthy of the trust and expectations of the Party, the State, and the people, worthy of the position of a press that is about to turn 100 years old.

Revolutionary press is always a sharp spiritual weapon of the Party and State.

Speaking at the ceremony, comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Chairman of the National Press Awards Council, said that throughout the historical periods of the country since the establishment of the Party, the revolutionary press has always been the leading force, the sharp spiritual weapon of the Party and State on the ideological and cultural front; a forum of the people, making great contributions to the revolutionary cause.

Generations of revolutionary journalists are worthy of being the vanguard soldiers on the ideological and cultural front. The achievements of Vietnam’s revolutionary journalism today were built by the intelligence, efforts and even blood of generations of journalists over the past century.

He affirmed that, continuing the 98-year tradition of revolutionary journalism, the country's press has always maintained its role as a vanguard force on the ideological and cultural front; maintained its role as a non-stop official and mainstream information stream; effectively propagated the correct guidelines and policies of the Party and State; and been the voice of the people, a bridge between the Party, State and the people.

Comrade Le Quoc Minh, Chairman of the National Press Awards Council, spoke at the ceremony. (Photo: THANH DAT)

The press nationwide has been making efforts to overcome difficulties and challenges, continuing to proactively innovate delivery methods, bringing new experiences to readers through digital technology applications .

He affirmed that in the context of digital transformation strongly affecting the entire national press system in many aspects, more than ever, journalists, especially heads of press agencies and Journalists Associations at all levels, need to promote the fine traditions of Vietnamese revolutionary journalism: steadfast in political stance, loyal to the revolutionary cause of the Party, the Fatherland and the nation, innovative, creative and proactive in international integration.

Comrade Le Quoc Minh emphasized that in 2022, the press has reported quickly, accurately and comprehensively on all developments in political, economic and social life, both domestically and internationally, and is also a large and trustworthy forum for the people. The press has also shown innovation in the way of expression, proposing many constructive solutions and good practices that have spread and influenced society.

Scene of the award ceremony. (Photo: DUY LINH)

In addition, the press has demonstrated steadfast political will, high social responsibility, and proficient professional skills, creating widespread social effects.

Comrade Le Quoc Minh said that this year, the number of works submitted to the award continued to be high with 1,894 works, showing the strong attraction of the award as well as the interest and positive response of members and all levels of the Journalists Association nationwide.

The entries are of good and consistent quality.

With a serious, objective and highly responsible spirit, this year's Judging Council selected 123 excellent press works from 157 works in the final round to award prizes, including 8 A prizes, 24 B prizes, 46 C prizes, 45 Encouragement prizes in 11 categories for the most excellent works.

According to the Award Council's assessment, this year's works closely followed major themes from politics, economics, culture, society, national defense, security and other aspects of the country's life in 2022, clearly reflecting important events of the country such as: Efforts to restore socio-economic development and build an independent and self-reliant economy in the context of being heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic; the work of Party building and rectification, the fight against corruption and negativity, and protecting the Party's ideological foundation.

Party and State leaders attended the Award Ceremony. (Photo: THANH DAT)

In addition, the works also focus on reflecting prominent economic issues such as the stock market, real estate market crisis, loopholes in petroleum business management; cultural topics, preserving and promoting national cultural identity, protecting cultural values ​​in the new era.

In addition, the works also delve into hot social issues such as drug problems in schools, human trafficking to Cambodia, violations at religious establishments, the situation of buying and selling eggs and surrogacy...; issues of protecting sovereignty over seas and islands, protecting the environment, responding to climate change; the spirit of great national solidarity; digital transformation in all areas of social life...

President Vo Van Thuong and delegates attending the award ceremony. (Photo: DUY LINH)

According to the Award Council, in general, the press works are of good and consistent quality. The gap between central and local press has been narrowed in many genres. Many works are invested in carefully, the content is to discover new issues, criticize major policies of the Party and State; propose many creative solutions, good ways of doing things that have the power to spread and influence in society. Many works are of good quality, invested seriously and carefully, have a tight structure, and the way of expression is close, vivid, and attractive to readers.

What is new this year is that in addition to the central press agencies, local press has clearly demonstrated achievements in innovation, creativity, multi-format, and multimedia, typically: Ho Chi Minh City Television, Nghe An Radio-Television Station, Tuyen Quang Newspaper...

In addition to the branches and large associations that still maintain the quality of the works submitted for the contest, many provincial journalist associations show investment in the selection and improvement of the quality of the works submitted for the contest. In particular, press photos have more good works than last year; some local units have invested well in their works, sent more entries, and have photo collections that demonstrate the discovery of the topic and professional expression.

Below are some pictures at the ceremony:

Awarding B prize to the authors and representatives of the winning author groups. (Photo: DUY LINH)

Awarding the C prize to the authors and representatives of the winning author groups. (Photo: DUY LINH)

Awarding the Encouragement Prize to the authors and representatives of the winning author groups. (Photo: DUY LINH)

* This year, the Nhan Dan Newspaper Journalists Association won the following awards: - A Prize (1): Series of 4 articles "New requirements for building an independent and self-reliant economy" by the group of authors Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, Ha Thanh Giang, Hoang Van Anh (Minh Duc), Bui Thi Lan (To Ha), Pham Viet Hai. - B Prize (2): Series of 5 articles "Vivid practice of innovating the Party's leadership methods" by the group of authors Phuong Quyen, Le Mau Lam, Hanh Nguyen, Van Toan; series of 5 articles "Journey to bring you back to your motherland" by the group of authors Nguyen Hong Minh, Tran Son Bach, Tran Thanh Dat, Nguyen Van Toan. - C Prize (2): Series of 3 episodes "Traps in a foreign land" by the group of authors Mai Tam Hieu, Doan Trung Kien, Pham Chi Kien; series of 5 articles "The value of peace" by the group of authors Hai Duong, Ngo Phuong Thao, Le Duc Duc, Vo Hoang Giang, Quang Khanh. - Encouragement Prize (1) : Work "Athlete Vo Pham Hoang An delivers the decisive blow to win and bring home the Gold Medal in the men's 60kg Kurash event at the 31st SEA Games" by author Tran Thanh Hai.

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