Responsibility of journalists in the 4.0 era

- The fourth industrial revolution has had a clear impact on all areas of social life, including journalism and media. This requires each journalist to be more responsible in order to fulfill their mission.

Leaders of Lang Son Newspaper and Radio and Television Station awarded prizes to groups of authors who won the B prize at the 2nd Short Television Report Festival in 2025.

With the emergence of multi-channel, multi-platform, multi-type of media, and the increasingly strong development of social networks and digital platforms, the public's information reception and reception habits have changed. In that context, the role and responsibility of revolutionary journalists need to be clearly demonstrated, truly leading and orienting public opinion, contributing to a healthy information environment.

Requirements from practice

In reality, readers and the public have access to a lot of information every day through many different channels and sources. Therefore, it is inevitable that in the process of receiving information, there will be both real and fake information, unverified information... When receiving strange, new, interesting, and interesting information, social network users often share it with their friends to read, listen to, and watch that information. Therefore, when people see the link sent by their friends, they easily believe that it is real information, new information, and continue to spread and share it...

In the context of information competition in the 4.0 era, the role and responsibility of journalists are extremely important. Each journalist will contribute to bringing official information to the public, leading and orienting public opinion, and at the same time fighting and refuting false information,... Although the information of reporters and journalists of press agencies may not appear as quickly as information on social networking sites, it is information that readers and the public trust and is information that is true to the nature of events, phenomena, and issues that the public is interested in and needs answers.

Information from press agencies, reporters, and journalists will have a huge impact on the public's thoughts and feelings. Only when they have official information will the public stop wondering and worrying, otherwise they will still look for other sources of information about that event, phenomenon, or issue. In the process of searching for information, it is inevitable that there will be times when they fall into the "information matrix"...

Respect and maintain professional ethics

To guide public opinion, each journalist needs to be aware and uphold their responsibility in providing and sharing authentic information. In particular, journalists need to delve into analyzing and clarifying the nature of events, phenomena, and issues to help the public obtain the most essential information, correctly understand events, phenomena, and issues, and not be misled or led to believe in distorted, fabricated information, fake news, etc.

Not only that, every reporter in the 4.0 era needs to avoid falling into the phenomenon of being too busy chasing information competition, using unverified information, subjectively inferring and then reporting hastily. At the same time, it is necessary to always uphold, respect, maintain professional ethics, and strictly adhere to working procedures. If journalists do not discipline themselves, do not strictly follow the principles, regulations, and working procedures, it is very easy to commit taboos, such as copying, assembling; synthesizing, collecting on social networking sites to analyze, infer, comment, etc. All of these are taboos for true journalists.

Although it is known that in the digital age, journalists must keep up with the trends and styles of modern journalism, they cannot ignore the principled processes and regulations. It can be affirmed that the ethics of journalists in any era will always be the core and foundation of a true journalist, a revolutionary journalist. Especially in the 4.0 era, besides the requirement of mastering technology and being good at technology, each journalist still needs to uphold honesty, objectivity, and maintain professional ethics, etc. These are the important and consistent criteria and requirements to become journalists with "sharp pens, pure hearts, and bright minds", contributing to building a professional, humane and modern journalism, and fulfilling the mission of revolutionary journalism in the new period.

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