Today, December 21, in Hanoi, the Central Propaganda Department chaired and coordinated with the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Vietnam Journalists Association to organize a National Press Conference to review the work in 2023 and deploy tasks in 2024. Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia; Party Central Committee member, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang; Party Central Committee member, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung; Party Central Committee member, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association Le Quoc Minh; Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department Tran Thanh Lam chaired the conference.
The conference was attended by more than 700 delegates, including leaders of ministries, departments, branches, and associations at the central and local levels; press management and direction agencies, press management agencies; and leaders of press agencies.
The Central Propaganda Department awarded Certificates of Merit to press agencies with outstanding achievements in information and propaganda work to carry out political tasks in 2023 - Photo: PV
The press summary report for 2023 clearly stated that information and propaganda work in the press on the implementation of political tasks, economic, social, cultural, defense, security issues, etc. received attention, focus, and depth, creating positive spread.
Information on foreign affairs activities of senior Party and State leaders; information on foreign affairs events became highlights in the overall propaganda picture. Propaganda work to protect the Party's ideological foundation and fight against and refute erroneous and hostile viewpoints has clearly changed from thinking to content, form and methods of propaganda. Propaganda on preventing and combating corruption, negativity, and fighting against signs of degradation in political ideology, ethics and lifestyle continues to be strongly implemented, increasingly going into depth, substance, bringing high efficiency.
The press has also actively promoted the building and development of Vietnamese culture and people on par with economic development propaganda in accordance with the orientation and direction of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the 2021 National Cultural Conference.
The work of directing, orienting information and propaganda in the press has increasingly brought about positive results, with many clear changes. The rectification and handling of violations in press activities has been implemented drastically, along with focusing on building mechanisms and policies, creating conditions to support the press to develop healthily and in the right direction...
In addition to the achieved results, journalism in 2023 still faces many difficulties and challenges, revealing a number of limitations and shortcomings in the face of the development of social media in terms of content, ability to lead and orient information, to methods of approaching the public, mastering technology and attracting revenue. A number of journalists show signs of degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, "self-evolution", "self-transformation", violating the law, violating professional ethics... causing outrage in public opinion.
The conference also spent a lot of time listening to delegates discuss, exchange and share issues of concern in current press and communication work; identifying trends and challenges, thereby determining fundamental and comprehensive tasks and solutions for 2024 and in the coming period.
The presentation of Quang Tri Newspaper sent to the conference shared good practices in carrying out the task of propaganda in newspapers on protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against wrong and hostile views in the new situation, such as: To convey information on propaganda to protect the Party's ideological foundation in a focused, systematic and regular manner, Quang Tri Newspaper opened the columns: "Party Building", "Fighting against peaceful evolution", "Today's issues", "Weekend Forum", "Good people - good deeds"; selected and processed a number of works from two competitions on protecting the Party's ideological foundation (one competition organized by the Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies and Enterprises and one competition organized by the province) into press works to publish in the newspaper; organized a press workshop with the theme "Party Newspaper with propaganda to protect the Party's ideological foundation in the new situation" to learn and replicate good practices of newspapers.
When problems and complicated incidents occur in the area, the newspaper promptly publishes articles that analyze objectively and thoroughly, thereby helping people understand the true nature of the problem, in order to guide and orient public opinion and stabilize the situation; commissions articles from experts, members of the Provincial Steering Committee 35, theorists, and famous domestic journalists to write incisive articles on the topic of protecting the Party's ideological foundation...
Speaking at the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang requested that press agencies need to increase their competitiveness with other media, such as social networks, YouTube, TikTok, etc., thereby increasing advertising revenue to serve the agency's operations. He hoped that journalists would continuously learn and improve their capacity, ethics, and responsibility; and that governing agencies must be more responsible, more profound, and increase inspection and supervision.
Regarding the financial issues of press agencies, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang suggested that ministries, branches and agencies balance the state budget and autonomous resources; have mechanisms and policies to encourage active competition among agencies as well as journalists and reporters.
Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia requested that agencies directing, guiding, and managing the press, journalists' associations at all levels, especially press agencies and journalists, need to make more efforts to promote the results and achievements that have been achieved; be determined to overcome limitations and shortcomings, and resolve and handle well the challenges in press activities to achieve the requirements of "professionalism, humanity, and modernity".
Focus on promoting the completion of the legal system on the press, in which the most important goal is to amend and supplement the 2016 Press Law and complete the National Press Development and Management Plan until 2025, creating conditions for the press to develop healthily and in the right direction.
Continue to strengthen discipline and order in complying with instructions and information orientation, in correcting and handling violations of the law and professional ethics.
The Head of the Central Propaganda Department noted that in the context of strong development of science and technology, new media platforms, and social media, more than ever, the press must create a positive, mainstream information flow that spreads strongly, leads, and orients public opinion towards good things in society; making an important contribution to building an advanced Vietnamese culture with strong national identity; building a system of national values, a system of cultural values, a system of family values, and standards for Vietnamese people in the new era.
At the conference, the Central Propaganda Department awarded certificates of merit to 33 press agencies with outstanding achievements in information and propaganda work, and implementation of political tasks in 2023, including Quang Tri Newspaper.
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