Attending and presiding over the final round were comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association , Chairman of the Final Jury; comrade Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association; members of the Final Jury of the award...
Comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Chairman of the Final Round Council, spoke at the meeting.
According to journalist Do Thi Thu Hang, member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Professional Committee of the Vietnam Journalists Association, the first National Press Award "For the cause of developing culture, sports and tourism" was launched on December 26, 2022. Since its launch, the award has received positive responses from journalists and members of the Vietnam Journalists Association nationwide.
By the end of the deadline for submitting entries (July 10, 2023 according to the postmark ), the Secretariat - Synthesis Subcommittee received a total of 1,084 entries. This is a large number of entries, especially for an industry press award held in its first year. This demonstrates the high interest of journalists and the press public in the fields of culture, sports and tourism. The Secretariat - Synthesis Subcommittee reviewed, screened and eliminated 51 entries that violated the requirements of the Award Rules.
The preliminary judging panel was established with 5 sub-committees: Print, Electronic, Radio, Television and Photojournalism to judge 1,033 valid works. From July 25 to August 14, 2023, based on the Judging Regulations, the preliminary judging panel sub-committees conducted independent, objective, transparent assessments, and focused, thorough and impartial discussions to select the most outstanding press works for the final round. The preliminary judging process was carried out promptly, seriously, strictly, in accordance with the Judging Rules and Regulations.
Council members discuss and evaluate the works.
After 3 weeks of reviewing, discussing and scoring the works, the Preliminary Council selected 131 best works to present to the Final Council, distributed according to press types. Of which, 35 were selected for print newspapers; 30 were selected for electronic newspapers; 20 were selected for radio; 30 were selected for television; and 16 were selected for photojournalism.
According to the assessment of the Preliminary Jury, the entries for the Award are not only numerous in quantity and diverse in topics, but also of good professional quality, gathering many large and small press agencies at both the central and local levels. The works all adhere to major themes, vividly reflecting important events of 2022-2023 in the fields of culture, sports, tourism and family.
Some prominent topics that many groups of authors are interested in, such as: Policies, major issues on cultural revival, cultural development of the country, arousing the noble and sacred values of the Vietnamese people; commemorating the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Vietnamese Cultural Outline. Policies in state work on heritage; issues on preserving, conserving and promoting national cultural heritages, regional cultural heritages such as: Vietnamese language, Vietnamese ao dai, Hue royal court literature and poetry, Then singing, Thai xoe, folk songs, amateur music...
Role models in high-performance sports, mass sports, and sports for the disabled. Policies to restore and develop tourism in localities after the COVID-19 pandemic. Criticizing bad habits, analyzing the negative side of social networks in cultural, family and behavioral issues. Pointing out difficulties, obstacles, and inadequacies in all aspects of culture, sports, tourism, and family work, thereby proposing innovative solutions to improve the effectiveness of state management, calling on the whole society to join hands to solve them...
Comrade Le Quoc Minh said that the award reflected many issues, both macro issues about the Party and State's policies, cultural outlines, issues with great visions and very specific issues.
Sharing at the meeting, comrade Le Quoc Minh said: "In the context that our Party and State always pay attention to cultural issues, the establishment of the National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism" is very necessary. And right in the first organization with more than 1,000 participating works, we considered it quite successful. We were also surprised by the number of participating television works, which is quite high compared to electronic newspapers and photo newspapers, which shows the interest of press agencies, especially television stations, in the award...".
Regarding the content of the works participating in the award, comrade Le Quoc Minh said that the award reflected many issues, both macro issues about the policies of the Party and State, cultural outlines, issues with great visions and very specific issues in many fields of the sports, culture and tourism industries.
However, the Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association said that this time the award only attracted a few major press agencies to participate, the number of local press agencies participating was not much. Although the number of works was quite large, it was only focused on a few units. We hope that in the future, there will be more widespread participation from local and central press agencies.
Comrade Le Quoc Minh answered questions from press agencies about the first National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism".
“We hope that in the next editions, we will receive many press works that can propose solutions and suggest directions for the development of the fields of culture, sports and tourism,” emphasized comrade Le Quoc Minh.
Among the works in the final round, the Council discussed, evaluated and voted to select 5 A prizes, 15 B prizes, 25 C prizes and 50 Encouragement prizes to award the first National Press Award "For the cause of developing Culture, Sports and Tourism". In addition, the Collective Award will be given to 3 press agencies with many works participating in the award, achieving high results.
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