Over the years, local Party press agencies have played a good role as a bridge between the Party and the government and the people, becoming a democratic forum, providing two-way information, honestly and responsibly reflecting the thoughts and legitimate aspirations of the people. Local Party press agencies have also always been at the forefront of propaganda to protect the Party's ideological foundation. The task of strengthening the protection of the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints in the new situation is an important and top priority.
Reporters at work at the opening session of the 13th National Party Congress. Photo: Van Diep
Nowadays, as technology develops, the trend of people using cyberspace is increasing, especially cyberspace such as Facebook, Zalo, Youtube, ... is growing stronger and stronger with its openness, ease of use and freedom. These social networks are also tools for hostile forces to exploit to sabotage the Party and spread anti-State arguments.
This poses many challenges to the protection of the Party's ideological foundation, cyberspace is truly an important front and cannot be neglected. Faced with such challenges, press agencies in general and local Party newspapers in particular must always be fully aware of new tasks. How to build courage, responsibility and high determination to protect the Party's ideological foundation, fight in cyberspace, and refute hostile and erroneous views in the new situation.
In Ha Tinh province, in recent times, Ha Tinh newspaper has persistently implemented the propaganda motto of "using beauty to eliminate ugliness", while frankly and honestly reflecting negative issues in society. In addition to strongly developing electronic newspapers following the multimedia trend, producing press works associated with new types of journalism such as longform, e-magazine, infographic, podcast... the newspaper also focuses on propaganda articles to fight against wrong and hostile views on social networks.
Journalist Nguyen Cong Thanh - Editor-in-Chief of Ha Tinh Newspaper said: " Currently, the newspaper's fanpage has 450,000 followers, becoming one of the pages with the largest number of followers in the national Party newspaper system. In addition, the newspaper has many satellite fanpages, other social networking sites with accounts managed by the editorial office and by departments, divisions and units in the newspaper... this is an important "force" ready to participate in the fight to protect the Party on social networking platforms" .
Editor-in-Chief of Ha Tinh Newspaper Nguyen Cong Thanh (3rd from left) at the 10th Conference of Party Newspapers of provinces and cities in the Central Highlands - Central region. Photo: BHT
The Editor-in-Chief of Ha Tinh Newspaper shared that in order for this work to be effective, it is important to improve the political capacity and professional qualifications of staff and reporters. Strongly innovate the organization of the editorial office's activities, proactively approach media trends in the 4.0 era.
In fact, many local press agencies have produced quality articles and press works on Party building work, doing a good job of widely disseminating information and propaganda about the Party's guidelines and policies, and the State's policies and laws. Strongly directing public opinion towards positive and good things in political, economic and social life and truly promoting the role of providing sources for the websites of the political system, reliable information addresses for people and social network users.
Articles, images, and clips about protecting the Party's ideological foundation after being published on electronic newspapers are edited and revised to be suitable and more attractive to social networking platforms to attract more readers, especially young people.
Journalist Huynh Minh Dan - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Binh Duong Newspaper said that Binh Duong Newspaper has organized a specialized department in charge of social networks, assigning tasks to each member associated with each social network account of the newspaper to organize the posting of news, articles, and photos on social networks about the Party's policies and guidelines, the State's policies and laws in general, and the implementation work of Binh Duong province in particular.
Training on writing about Party building for more than 30 journalists and reporters working at press agencies in Binh Duong province. Photo: Do Trong
The newspaper also carries out information and propaganda work on hot issues and events that attract the attention of the majority of people to create an information front to guide public opinion. Along with that, it monitors interactions and promptly responds to information related to the socio-economic situation of the province for readers.
Sharing his local experiences, Editor-in-Chief of Binh Thuan Newspaper Le Huy Toan said that in recent years, Binh Thuan Newspaper has always focused on developing multi-platform and multi-media journalism genres. The newspaper has also increased propaganda to fight against hostile forces on social networking platforms.
“To improve the effectiveness of propaganda to protect the Party's ideological foundation, first of all, we must fight against wrong views and thoughts, bad and toxic information in many diverse and rich forms in the press, on other media, especially social networks, ... taking advantage of the advantages of technology, new types of journalism to bring the Party's policies and guidelines to the public in an accurate, fast, convenient and attractive way, especially for people in remote areas, ethnic minority areas" journalist Le Huy Toan shared.
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