On the morning of February 27, Nhan Dan Weekend Newspaper celebrated the 35th anniversary of its first issue and received the Third Class Labor Medal. Ms. Truong Thi Mai, Politburo member, Permanent member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat, Head of the Party Central Committee's Organization Commission attended and spoke at the event.
Nhan Dan Weekend Newspaper received the Third Class Labor Medal.
Mr. Vu Mai Hoang, Director of the Department, Head of the People's Weekend Committee said: "With the mission of the first political-social weekly newspaper of the Vietnamese revolutionary press, in the impressive Introduction to readers, imbued with the colors of spring, it is written: "People's Sunday, a political-social weekly, is oriented towards the general theme: The Vietnamese people carry the Vietnamese soul and intelligence, solving the domestic and foreign issues of their country in a moving and changing world ".
Together with the daily People's Newspaper, the People's Weekend wishes to contribute its small part to the innovation of our country's press, promoting the country's broad innovation process according to the basic contents of the 6th National Party Congress. The People's Sunday strives to expand rich, diverse and useful information, contributing to raising people's knowledge, implementing democratization in speech to be both a forum for the People, for a large number of collaborators and the whole country".
Over the past 35 years, the newspaper has always adhered to the principles and criteria of a Party newspaper, along with the flexibility to adjust and improve communication methods to constantly improve development orientation, build identity, affirm its mettle and correct and effective direction.
Ms. Truong Thi Mai, Politburo member, Permanent member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat, Head of the Central Organizing Committee spoke at the event.
With a streamlined organization, the team of Nhan Dan Weekend reporters always uphold the spirit of initiative and creativity in professional work, focusing on organizing a wide network of collaborators, specializing in each field of information. This is the basic foundation for creating, maintaining and promoting the strengths and differences of Nhan Dan Weekend: It is a system of topics/series of articles that show in-depth insights into an issue of social concern, questions that need to be answered, with opinions and comments from experts, high-quality articles, sharp criticism in a humane and constructive spirit. The thematic message of each issue is built in a modern, impressive direction, increasing the ability to attract readers right from the first page, from the "first look".
A series of special topics organized by the Nhan Dan Weekend team have really impressed readers. Many managers and experts in many fields of politics, economics, culture, society, sports, etc. also highly appreciated the content and solutions that Nhan Dan Weekend has provided. The high rankings in the National Press Awards and the National Press Awards of ministries, departments and branches recently won by the authors of the special topics/series of articles on Nhan Dan Weekend are vivid proof of the newspaper's leading position in the trend of in-depth journalism and solution journalism. These include: B Prize - National Press Award on the National Assembly and People's Council (Dien Hong Award) for the second time in 2024; Second Prize - National Award on Foreign Information, 2023; C Prize - 17th National Press Award, 2022 (awarded in 2023); C Prize - 8th National Press Award for Finance, 2023; Third Prize - First Press Award for Culture, Sports and Tourism, 2023; First Prize - Press Award on Science and Technology, 2021 (awarded in 2022); C Prize - National Press Award on Party Building (Golden Hammer and Sickle Award) 2020 (awarded in 2021)...
Not only being sensitive and creating its own mark with in-depth journalism, solution journalism, in other words the trend of "slow journalism", Nhan Dan Weekend always focuses on applying scientific and technological advances, improving the journalism process so as not to get lost in the era of global information and digitalization.
The digital transformation process has been strongly promoted by Nhan Dan Cuoi Tuan for over two years, starting with changing the mindset of the entire apparatus through training, retraining, improving modern journalism skills, and building multimedia journalism works. The content of the topics in the printed newspaper is edited, the information content is increased, and converted into in-depth online data in the form of E-magazine, megastory, longform, infographic... This is a way to attract readers to stay on the online newspaper longer, while inspiring them to read the printed newspaper with completely different experiences and information perceptions.
The People's Weekend Newspaper also has a breakthrough change in promoting the publication. In June 2021, the PDF version of the People's Weekend issues was launched at docbao.nhandan.vn, allowing readers to read each page directly. From May 15, 2022, the People's Weekend PDF officially appeared on the online newspaper platform PressReader.
In addition, in 2021, 2022 and 2023, the People's Weekend Committee will coordinate with the Information Center to organize content and produce 20 issues of the Ethnic-Religious supplement (later renamed Hon Viet), and at the same time participate in making the Ethnic-Religious radio program on the online platform.
Currently, the Nhan Dan weekend newspaper consists of 16 pages, A3 size, 6 pages printed in color, distributed nationwide every Friday, with an average print quantity of more than 40,000 copies/issue.
Mr. Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association, spoke at the event.
Mr. Le Quoc Minh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association said: "The challenges facing print newspapers are getting bigger and bigger, but that does not discourage Party journalists. We are determined that: Nhan Dan Daily Newspaper still plays an important role because it is not only a publication that brings current information to everyone but also a handbook and document on major policies of the Party and State, propagating to Party cells and each Party member. Accompanying the daily newspaper are the publications Nhan Dan Weekend, Nhan Dan Monthly, Thoi Nay, with stable circulation. The publications are all coordinated smoothly with Nhan Dan Television and Nhan Dan Electronic, thereby, reaching readers is no longer limited by space and time. The Nhan Dan ecosystem is very diverse in types, but thanks to the combination and optimization of platforms that help create a unified and mutually supportive "One People", thereby achieving higher efficiency in meeting the requirements of modern journalism as well as the demands of modern readers and users".
Speaking at the ceremony, Ms. Truong Thi Mai, Politburo member, Standing member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat, Head of the Central Organizing Committee affirmed: “Uncle Ho named the Party newspaper Nhan Dan and he also had more than 1,200 articles and dozens of pen names published in Nhan Dan. With the persistence of many generations, Nhan Dan has made many great and important contributions, associated with different stages in the revolutionary cause of the Party. To maintain its position as the political and ideological flag of the Party on the press front of our country, and to fulfill its assigned tasks well, Nhan Dan continues to strive to take the lead in propagating the Party's guidelines and policies, reflecting the vivid and practical issues of life, obstacles that limit the development process, arousing patriotism, self-reliance, promoting national pride, and the strength of great solidarity, contributing to building a prosperous and happy country; enhancing the position and image of Vietnam in the international arena”.
“To overcome the challenges facing print newspapers in the era of information explosion, digital revolution and the rapid, diverse and attractive development of electronic newspapers and social networks, Nhan Dan newspaper must always adhere to its political tasks, constantly innovate, be creative, become more diverse, vivid, unique, responsive, modern, more attractive, more truthfully and effectively reflect the cause of innovation, the work of Party building and rectification, continue to do a good job of ideological and theoretical work, and protect the Party's ideological foundation.
Scene of the 35th anniversary celebration of the first issue of Nhan Dan Weekend Newspaper.
In addition, Nhan Dan newspaper needs to focus on discovering and encouraging new factors, new models, new ways of doing things, and new progress in the country's development process, focusing on the 6 key leadership and direction tasks of the Party; 3 strategic breakthroughs, goals, targets, and tasks of the 13th National Party Congress, and the Party's Resolutions and policies. Nhan Dan newspaper continues to maintain its leading political information role of the Party, maintain its identity and spirit as the leading flag of revolutionary journalism, continue to innovate, keep up with development trends, and orient public opinion in the face of the complex impact of social network information. Nhan Dan newspaper continues to attract a large number of readers at home and abroad, meeting the Party's requirements in the new period," said Ms. Truong Thi Mai.
At the 35th Anniversary of the first issue of Nhan Dan Weekend Newspaper on February 27, 2024, the Nhan Dan Weekend Board of Nhan Dan Newspaper was once again honored to receive the Third Class Labor Medal. "This is a noble award, of great encouragement to the staff of Nhan Dan Weekend Newspaper. We will continue to strive and contribute more to the overall achievements of Nhan Dan Newspaper, to the cause of Vietnamese revolutionary journalism accompanying the country's innovation and development", said Mr. Vu Mai Hoang, Director of the Department, Head of Nhan Dan Weekend Board.
According to VNA
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