Closing of the 2023 National Press Festival: Strong innovation to promote the role of information power

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha presented the A prize to representatives of the units. (Photo: Nguyen Thu Phuong/VNA)

After 3 days of exciting and enthusiastic activities, the 2023 National Press Festival with the theme "Solidarity - Professionalism - Culture - Creativity" was a great success.

Speaking at the closing ceremony on the afternoon of March 19, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association Nguyen Duc Loi affirmed that the Press Festival was truly a unique cultural and spiritual gathering of journalists with the participation of hundreds of press agencies, all levels of the Journalists Association, press training and management agencies.

VietnamPlus won the A prize for "Impressive Electronic Newspaper Interface"

At this year's Press Festival, VietnamPlus Electronic Newspaper (Vietnam News Agency) was awarded the A Prize for "Impressive Electronic Newspaper Interface" for its Lunar New Year newspaper page imbued with the traditional Tet flavor.

This is a collaborative product between VietnamPlus and ONECMS Technology Company - the Tet newspaper interface, with a prominent design with the main color being red, along with two stylized peach and apricot blossoms, highlighting the message "A peaceful Tet, a prosperous Spring." After 3 years of the pandemic, this is the wish of many families, with the hope that 2023 will give wings to dreams to fly high.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's New Year greetings are placed in the most prominent position on the page, while the specific article is embedded on the surface of a bronze drum with a rotating effect, both honoring traditional values ​​and demonstrating technological elements, in line with the digital transformation orientation in journalism.

Tet page of VietnamPlus Electronic Newspaper. (Screenshot)

Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association Nguyen Duc Loi emphasized that through exhibition booths, publications, professional, cultural and artistic events, the National Press Association has painted a picture of the country's great achievements in the renovation process, highlighting the contributions and strong development of Vietnam's revolutionary press while promoting press products associated with the working and creative activities of journalists - members of the Vietnam Journalists Association nationwide.

Awakening the desire for prosperity

Speaking at the closing ceremony, Party Central Committee member and Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha assessed that the 2023 National Press Festival had left many good impressions in the hearts of journalists and the press public nationwide.

In the context of globalization and deep international integration; the strong development of science and technology; the rapid movement of the world; the practice of innovation and dynamic development of the country, the Vietnamese revolutionary press is facing the requirement to continue to arouse more strongly the aspiration for a prosperous and thriving Vietnam.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested that each press product must be imbued with humanity, imbued with national cultural values, have great influence, create consensus in the whole society, deeply reflect the great innovation reality of the country, promote the good values ​​of culture, country and Vietnamese people, contributing to enhancing the overall national strength.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha speaks at the closing ceremony. (Photo: Hoai Nam/Vietnam+)

“The team of journalists must be steadfast in political and ideological qualities; increasingly modern, professional and internationally integrated. The press system needs to further promote its role as a sharp communication tool of the Party, State and people, and at the same time an effective means of social supervision and criticism,” said Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha.

Faced with the explosion of information technology, online platforms, and social networks, press agencies cannot stand outside the digital transformation trend.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested that the press must move towards a method of producing and providing multimedia, multi-platform, multi-device information, diversifying markets and diversifying revenue sources.

“Press agencies must unite into a unified force with strong influence, playing the role of the main flow of information, orienting public opinion in cyberspace. Each press product must ensure aesthetic and educational factors, promote humanity, and become a model in communication and cultural behavior in the community, especially in cyberspace and the digital environment,” Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha emphasized.

The Deputy Prime Minister also requested the Vietnam Journalists Association, the common home of the press nationwide, to take the lead in training and building political capacity for journalists and members, while creating a cultural space in journalism activities, thereby helping to "correct" "deviations" in professional ethics, multiplying humanistic values ​​in journalism activities. The Association needs to have more activities and contributions to the modernization of journalism, first of all, the digital transformation, how to make the digital transformation of journalism truly "permeate" and have a positive impact on each press agency and each journalist.

General Director of Vietnam News Agency Vu Viet Trang (left cover) presents awards to units. (Photo: Hoai Nam/Vietnam+)

This March, the Government will issue a Project on digital transformation in journalism. This is an important basis for press agencies to accelerate the digital transformation roadmap, apply artificial intelligence, and continue to promote the core values ​​of Vietnamese revolutionary journalism: Accuracy - mass - humanism - objectivity.

It is an environment for press agencies, media, and journalists to promote their creativity; develop Vietnam's modern media industry, integrating on par with advanced countries in the region.

On behalf of the Vietnam Journalists Association and journalists nationwide, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association Le Quoc Minh thanked the Party and State leaders for their attention, leadership and profound direction, and thanked Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha for his positive assessments of press activities in general and the National Press Association in 2023, and accepted the Deputy Prime Minister's direction to lead and implement the activities of the Journalists Association in particular and press agencies in general.

According to Vietnam+