Lunar New Year newspapers in the digital age

On January 28th, the opening ceremony of the exhibition "Spring Newspapers Advancing in the Digital Age" took place at Ho Chi Minh City Book Street, running from January 28th to February 1st.

This is the first time this event has been organized, as a way to spread knowledge and positive cultural values, especially with the upcoming Lunar New Year of the Horse 2026.

The idea for the exhibition "Spring Newspapers Advancing in the Digital Age" came from journalist Trung Nghia, who is also the Ho Chi Minh City Reading Culture Ambassador for the 2023-2024 term. According to Trung Nghia, he has always loved reading newspapers and contributed to Spring newspapers since his school days. Later, as a journalist, he had many articles published in Spring newspapers. In recent years, he has collected Spring newspaper covers and posted them on social media as an "online exhibition" for everyone to view these special Spring publications.

Guests performed the ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the exhibition "Spring Newspapers Advancing in the Digital Age".

"From that, I came up with the idea of ​​organizing the exhibition 'Spring Newspapers Advancing in the Digital Age' to contribute to honoring past and present Spring publications - a journalistic product with traditional cultural significance and special meaning for contemporary journalism," journalist Trung Nghia shared.

Images of the covers of the Saigon Liberation Newspaper's Spring issue over the years are on display at the Ho Chi Minh City Book Street.

Cover image of the Saigon Liberation Newspaper's Spring issue in the year of the Dragon, 1976.

The exhibition showcases the tradition of Spring Festival publications, both past and present, affirming the enduring vitality and continuous evolution of Vietnamese journalism on its journey to preserve core cultural values, integrate with the digital age – a new era – to reach today's young readers, students, and schoolchildren.

The exhibition has three thematic sections: Digitized covers of 19th-century Vietnamese Spring Festival newspapers, including the cover of the Nam Phong Spring Festival issue of the Year of the Horse 1918, considered the first Spring Festival newspaper in Vietnam; the digitized exhibition "Spring Festival Newspaper Covers Through Half a Century," featuring a selection of representative covers from newspapers such as Saigon Liberation Newspaper, Tuoi Tre Newspaper, Thanh Nien Newspaper, Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper, Giac Ngo Newspaper, and Catholic and National Newspaper… Notably, it includes the first Spring Festival newspaper covers of Saigon Liberation Newspaper, Tuoi Tre Newspaper, Giac Ngo Newspaper, and Catholic and National Newspaper (Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon 1976)…

Readers eagerly browse through the Spring issue of newspapers on display at Ho Chi Minh City Book Street.

Within the framework of the program, the roundtable discussion "Spring Newspapers Advancing Towards the Digital Age" took place with the participation of guests: Mr. Tran Dinh Ba, Deputy Director - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Ho Chi Minh City General Publishing House; journalist Le Huu Tuan, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic and National Newspaper; journalist Trung Nghia and Miss International runner-up Thuy Van, Ho Chi Minh City Reading Culture Ambassador 2023-2024.

Guests participating in the roundtable discussion "Spring Newspaper Advancing Towards the Digital Age"

During the program, guests shared their love and memories associated with traditional Lunar New Year newspapers. In the context of today's technological advancements, the digitization of these newspapers was met with approval from the guests, as a way to keep pace with and meet the reading and information needs of today's readers.

Besides the exhibition, the Ho Chi Minh City Book Street is also displaying a reading shelf for special editions of the 2026 Lunar New Year newspapers, offering the public free access to over 20 of the latest Lunar New Year newspaper publications from central and local newspapers in various provinces and cities.

QUYNH YEN

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/bao-xuan-trong-thoi-dai-so-post835709.html