Local Party Newspapers Join the Digital Transformation Stream

Comrades: Le Quoc Minh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, President of Vietnam Journalists Association; Luu Dinh Phuc, Director of the Press Department, Ministry of Information and Communications attended.

The workshop was attended by about 150 delegates, including leaders, journalists, editors, and reporters from 28 press agencies of Party newspapers in the Northern Midlands and Mountains; guest units were representatives of Party newspapers and Radio and Television stations of neighboring provinces.

Digital transformation is an inevitable requirement, a global trend, a strong “flow” in all areas of social life. In that “flow”, the press does not stand on the sidelines. In recent years, the press in general and local Party newspapers in particular have joined in and achieved certain achievements.

At the workshop, representatives of Party newspapers in the Northern midland and mountainous provinces shared initial achievements in implementing the digital transformation of journalism. Currently, many agencies have used AI artificial intelligence, Chat GPT software with huge data warehouses to create and improve the quality of new journalism products. Up to now, most press agencies have deployed new journalism products such as: emagazine, podcast, graphics... Promoting the release of journalism products on digital platforms and social networks such as: Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Zalo... creates a strong spread, affirming the position of local Party newspapers in the hearts of readers.

However, that roadmap still has many difficulties and challenges, the main ones being that the technological infrastructure does not meet the requirements; it is difficult to recruit high-quality technological human resources; there are problems with policies and mechanisms...

From there, press agencies focus on analyzing and providing solutions and directions to promote digital transformation in the field of journalism in accordance with the capacity, operational practices and development strategies of each locality.

At the workshop, delegates listened to comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association and speaker Nguyen Hoang Nhat, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of VietNamPlus e-newspaper, share practical experiences in the process of mobilizing to meet the needs of digital transformation at two major press agencies and the current trend of digital transformation of the press.

Affirming that the story of digital transformation of journalism is no longer a new story as it has been mentioned a lot over the past 3 years, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association Le Quoc Minh affirmed that the wave of digital transformation of journalism is always moving, if we do not grasp it and miss this "train", we will fall behind.

At the end of the workshop, the Organizing Committee awarded the rotating flag of the 24th Workshop of Party Newspapers of the Northern Midlands and Mountains Regions in 2025 to the host unit, Lao Cai Newspaper.

Previously, on the afternoon of July 15, delegates visited Nui Beo Coal Joint Stock Company - Vinacomin - a key unit in the field of underground coal mining of the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group.