Hai Duong plans to organize the Nguyen Luong Bang Journalism Award once a year.

On the afternoon of October 23, the Department of Information and Communications of Hai Duong had a working session with the Journalists Association, the Department of Finance, Hai Duong Newspaper, and the provincial Radio and Television Station to seek opinions on drafting a resolution regulating the content and level of expenditure for the Nguyen Luong Bang Journalism Award.

According to the Department of Information and Communications, the Nguyen Luong Bang Journalism Award is held every 5 years, starting in 2000. Up to now, there have been 5 award cycles.

However, due to the long awarding period (5 years/time), the timeliness of press works is not guaranteed. Many works have been invested in and information collected, but by the time of awarding, the works have lost their timeliness, even become outdated in content, affecting the awarding results.

Also because of the long award consideration period, the work of archiving and preserving works is not guaranteed, especially radio and television works, many works are lost, images and sound are of poor quality.

Regarding the award level, the most recent period was 2015-2020, each work winning the A prize had a reward of 18 million VND, the B prize 12 million VND, the C prize 9 million VND, and the consolation prize 3.5 million VND.

With the scale of organizing every 5 years, the award level is still low compared to reality. This affects the motivation and encouragement of journalists to invest in high-quality works to participate.

In addition, Hai Duong province does not have a mechanism to regulate the press awards regarding the content of the award, the award level, the organization cost, the impact on the implementation process, and the award level.

At the working session, according to the draft resolution of the Provincial People's Council regulating the content and level of expenditure for the Nguyen Luong Bang Journalism Award developed by the Department of Information and Communications, this award is held once a year.

The award structure includes 2 A prizes, 5 B prizes, 9 C prizes and 14 consolation prizes. The spending level will be reviewed and adjusted appropriately before the Department of Information and Communications completes the submission and draft resolution to report to the Provincial People's Committee, as a basis for submission to the Provincial People's Council.

Also at the meeting, the Department of Information and Communications asked for opinions on adjusting unit prices in the fields of print newspapers, electronic newspapers, radio and television according to the new basic salary level.