The National Radio Festival is a professional activity of the Vietnamese radio industry, held every two years, to discover and honor outstanding authors and works of radio journalists nationwide. The festival is also an opportunity for journalists, editors, and reporters to exchange, learn, improve their skills, and contribute to improving the quality of radio programs.
According to the Organizing Committee, the 16th National Radio Festival has the participation of 81 units (including 63 provincial and municipal Radio and Television Stations, units of the Voice of Vietnam, the People's Army Radio and Television Center, the People's Public Security Communications Department) with 380 works in 6 genres: reportage, thematic programs, interviews, ethnic language radio programs, radio stories, live radio programs; and 5 award categories: digital platform applications, podcasts, excellent staging techniques, golden voice, excellent host. Notably, this year's Festival has a sharp increase in live radio programs with the number of participating units up to 37 (in 2022 there were 29 units).
Sharing about the choice of the theme of the Festival as "Vietnam Radio - Diversity in Digital Transformation", Mr. Tran Minh Hung, Deputy General Director of Voice of Vietnam, Head of the Festival Organizing Committee said: In the strategy of digital transformation of the press to 2025, with a vision to 2030, it is clearly defined that digital transformation of the press aims to build press agencies in a professional, humane, and modern direction, effectively carrying out the mission of information and propaganda to serve the revolutionary cause of the Party, the cause of innovation of the country, ensuring the role of leading and orienting public opinion, maintaining information sovereignty in cyberspace, innovating readers' experiences, and creating new sources of revenue for the digital content industry.
“Digital transformation will also bring many benefits to journalists in general and radio in particular, which is to increase public access, thereby contributing to improving the quality, content of programs, and methods of expression during the program production process. In addition, it also increases the ability of the public to interact and participate in journalism activities, thereby creating new business models,” Mr. Tran Minh Hung stated.
After the Preliminary Round held in Tuyen Quang province, the Jury selected 228 works from 81 units to enter the Final Round, specifically: 53 works in the reportage genre; 28 works in the interview genre; 30 radio stories; 48 radio topics; 32 ethnic language radio programs and 37 live radio programs.
Mr. Dong Manh Hung, Head of the Editorial Secretariat of the Voice of Vietnam, General Secretary of the 16th National Radio Festival, shared that through the preliminary round, it can be seen that the works submitted to the 16th National Radio Festival this year are consistent in quality, the topics are all correct, relevant and topical, elaborately staged and have many innovations and creativity. This year is also the first year that the podcast category has been included in the Radio Festival for awards, with the desire to encourage the diverse development of media types, in order to better meet the needs of the public.
As planned, the Final Round of the 16th National Radio Festival 2024 will be held from July 9 to 14. The opening ceremony of the Festival will be held at 8:00 p.m. on July 11, and the closing ceremony will be held at 8:00 p.m. on July 13 at Lam Son Theater, Thanh Hoa Province. The program will be broadcast live on VTC1, VOVTV, TTV channels; broadcast live on VOV1, VOV2, VOV3; online on VOV.VN Electronic Newspaper, VTCNews, VOV Live application, VOV Media and other digital platforms of the Voice of Vietnam; and relayed on Radio and Television stations of provinces and cities.
Vice Chairman of Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee Dau Thanh Tung said: The Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Committee, Thanh Hoa Provincial Radio and Television Station and Voice of Vietnam will closely coordinate to create the best conditions for the Radio Festival to be successfully organized, leaving many impressions.
“This is also an opportunity to promote the image of Thanh Hoa province to thousands of cadres, reporters and editors from all over the country, showing the hospitality and affection of Thanh Hoa people to friends and colleagues,” Mr. Dau Thanh Tung emphasized.
Within the framework of the Final Round of the 16th National Radio Festival, the Voice of Vietnam and Thanh Hoa Radio and Television also organized exciting professional, cultural and sports activities, creating a forum for Vietnamese radio workers to exchange, meet and share experiences. These were the International Conference "Digital Transformation of Radio: International and Vietnamese Practices", the Program "The 9th National Exchange of Cheo Art Lovers in 2024" and the "For Healthy Waves" Run.
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