The dedication of journalists was clearly demonstrated in the works participating in the National Press Awards.

On the morning of June 16, the Council of the 17th National Press Awards - 2022 held a press conference to inform about the reception, judging, and preparation activities for the 17th National Press Awards - 2022. Attending and chairing the press conference was journalist Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association , Chairman of the National Press Awards Preliminary Council.

The 17th National Press Awards Council - 2022 held a press conference.

The most prestigious award for outstanding journalistic works

The annual National Press Awards is a major event that attracts special attention from the press nationwide. It is the most prestigious award given to outstanding press works that have made positive contributions to the country's press career, honoring authors and groups of authors with the best works every year.

After 17 years of organization, up to now, the Award continues to receive the active, positive and enthusiastic participation of 18 Inter-Associations and 35 affiliated Associations. The number of works by authors who are not members of the Vietnam Journalists Association is 169 works. This shows the strong attraction of the Award and the interest and active response of members and all levels of the Journalists Association nationwide.

This year, the number of works submitted to the Award was 1,894, of which 1,774 works qualified for the Preliminary round. The Preliminary judging process was carried out seriously, strictly, in accordance with the Guidelines and Regulations of the Award Council. The 11 Subcommittees of the Preliminary Judging Council worked impartially, completed the Preliminary judging on time, and achieved good quality.

Journalists Nguyen Duc Loi and Do Thi Thu Hang informed at the press conference.

The Final Round judging process was carried out in accordance with the Award Charter and the working regulations and voting procedures of the Award Council. Of the 157 works entered in the Final Round, the Council discussed, assessed and voted to select: 9 A prizes, 24 B prizes, 46 C prizes, 45 Encouragement prizes to award the 17th National Press Award - 2022.

At the press conference, journalist Do Thi Thu Hang, Head of the Professional Committee of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Vice President of the National Press Awards Preliminary Council, said: "This year, the Awards Council issued the Guidelines for selecting works to participate in the Awards earlier, creating conditions for the Associations at all levels to have more time to select from the base of quality works to participate in the Awards. Most units submitted works on time, and the application documents met the requirements. Most of the works participating in the Awards met the selection criteria stated in the Awards Council's Selection Guidelines. The regulations on time, authors, works, and genre groups have basically been properly implemented by the units. Many Associations at all levels with good implementation practices are still maintained."

The works submitted to the Award closely followed major topics from politics , economics, culture, society, national defense, security and other aspects of the country's life in 2022, vividly reflecting important events. Some prominent topics are the 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.

Outstanding economic issues such as: Stock market, real estate market crisis, credit fraud, loopholes in petroleum business management; Hot social issues such as: School drug problem, human trafficking to Cambodia, violations at religious establishments, underground egg trading and surrogacy. Especially topics on culture, preserving and promoting national cultural identity; educating cultural and historical values; building cultural institutions in the community; protecting cultural values ​​in the new era...

Journalist Do Thi Thu Hang, Head of the Professional Department of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Vice President of the National Press Awards Preliminary Council, shares information about the Awards.

Journalist Do Thi Thu Hang assessed that, in general, the works participating in this year's Award are of good quality. Most of the works are close to reality, highly topical, and address hot spots in 2022 in the fields of politics, economics, society, national security and defense, Party building, etc.

Many works are carefully invested, 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, seriously and carefully invested, have a tight structure, the way of expression is close, vivid, and attractive to readers.

Showing the spirit of overcoming difficulties and not being afraid of hardships

At the press conference, answering reporters' questions about the quality and quantity of the Press Photo category, journalist Nguyen Duc Loi said that this year there was no A prize in the Press Photo category, like many years the Council has always tried to implement solutions to improve the quality of participating press photos. The Council has a priority mechanism for this category, authors with photographic works can send them directly to the Council without going through a preliminary selection, without going through the association levels... however the number of works is still small.

Delegates attended the press conference to inform about the 17th National Press Awards - 2022.

Responding to the Council's assessment of the commitment of journalists to produce quality journalistic works, journalist Nguyen Duc Loi said: "The commitment of journalists has been clearly demonstrated in journalistic works, especially journalistic works in the investigative genre. To obtain visual information and create quality products, reporters have overcome difficulties, not afraid of hardship, not even afraid of danger to their lives, overcoming mental pressure, natural disasters, epidemics..."

Many reporters go into deep social issues, touching on sensitive issues in social life, this is clearly shown in many works. There are works that go into negative issues in society, including powerful agencies, officials, people with positions... those are the hardships in the journey of a journalist.

Regarding the question "The current quality gap between central and local press agencies", the Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association said that there is still a gap between the press personnel, resources, equipment and facilities at central and local press agencies, however, the quality of works participating in the award shows that this gap is increasingly narrowing. Especially in the genres of radio, television, and print media, this gap is increasingly fading, which is a good thing for the development of local press agencies... I hope that in the near future there will be no gap.

Reporters asked questions to the organizers

Regarding the question about the investment in the cultural field in the journalistic works participating in the Award? Journalist Nguyen Duc Loi emphasized that the quantity and quality of cultural works have increased, in accordance with the spirit that culture must be placed on par with economics, politics, and society, and the working activities of journalists and reporters are more oriented towards culture.

However, this field still has a lot of room to do, compared to politics, economics, negative waste, the topic of culture is still less. The Award Council always sets out the policy of paying attention to this field, trying to encourage cultural works. Currently, press agencies are very interested in building cultural pages and columns, this is a good sign for the coming seasons and to have quality works to award, each journalist and reporter needs to make more efforts.

At the same press conference, journalist Nguyen Duc Loi and journalist Do Thi Thu Hang took the time to answer questions from press agencies about the issue of digital transformation of journalism, its impact on works participating in the Award; Improving the quality of press photos; Solution journalism; Works on investigative reporting...

Reporters attending the press conference.

According to the Organizing Committee, the 17th National Press Awards Ceremony - 2022 will be solemnly held on the evening of Wednesday, June 21, 2022 at the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Labor Cultural Palace and will be broadcast live on VTV1 channel of Vietnam Television, VOV1 of Voice of Vietnam.

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