Rewarding outstanding press works about Ho Chi Minh City in the third quarter of 2025

On the morning of December 5, the Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee of the City Party Committee, the Department of Culture and Sports, and the Ho Chi Minh City Journalists Association organized a ceremony to commend and award financial support to authors and groups of authors from Ho Chi Minh City press agencies with good and excellent journalistic works about the city in the third quarter of 2025.

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoi, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City, assessed that the submitted works all had high investment and consistent quality.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoi, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City, spoke at the ceremony. Photo: Hoang Trieu.

The third quarter of 2025 is a period of many important milestones, a time when the city has many innovations, especially the official operation of the 2-level government. Thereby, press works not only ensure content quality, objectivity and authenticity but also promptly and vividly reflect the practical issues of the City.

The good and excellent works of the quarter have met the increasing information needs of the people, spreading the image of a dynamic, compassionate city, constantly innovating and developing.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoi, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City, awarded letters of commendation to works in the groups of Reportage, Investigation, Interview, Documentary, Special Pages, and Columns. Photo: Hoang Trieu.

According to Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoi, the works need to continue to promote positive information, promote the image and good human values, and propose solutions to build and develop Ho Chi Minh City in a proactive and creative way. He suggested that the works need to maintain the leadership of the press, contributing to spreading the values ​​of the city, especially on digital platforms.

Noting the topics that need to be focused on for the fourth quarter of 2025 and early 2026, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoi emphasized the need to promote the contents of Tet care activities for the city's people; continue to promote the propaganda of key projects and works being implemented along with the city's key socio -economic tasks. Above all, the press needs to continue to delve into solutions and suggestions to help the city develop quickly and sustainably.

Awarding letters of commendation and congratulatory flowers to works in the reportage, investigation, interview, documentary, special page and column categories. Photo: Hoang Trieu.

Awarding letters of commendation and congratulatory flowers to works belonging to the forum group or products with forum nature. Photo: Hoang Trieu.

Awarding letters of commendation and congratulatory flowers to works in the photojournalism group. Photo: Hoang Trieu.

After a fair and objective selection process, the most outstanding works in the third quarter were selected to receive support according to regulations. The organizing committee selected 70 press works in the categories of reportage, forum or forum products, political commentary, photo reportage, news - photos, multimedia press works.

Source: https://ttbc-hcm.gov.vn/khen-thuong-cac-tac-pham-bao-chi-xuat-sac-viet-ve-tphcm-trong-quy-iii-2025-1020143.html