Training on organizing specialized information skills for Hai Duong journalists

Journalist Nguyen Tri Thuc shares experience in organizing a thematic page at the training session.

On the morning of June 7, the Hai Duong Provincial Journalists Association organized a training course on journalism with the topic "Skills in organizing specialized press information" for about 60 reporters and editors from Hai Duong Newspaper, the Provincial Radio and Television Station, and Radio Stations of districts, towns, and cities in the province.

At the training session, the staff, reporters and editors listened to journalist Nguyen Tri Thuc, member of the Editorial Board, Head of the Topics and Special Issues Department of the Communist Magazine, part-time lecturer at the Center for Journalism Training (Vietnam Journalists Association) share many useful knowledge and practical experiences.

Officers, reporters and editors attend a training session on journalism skills.

Thematic information is specialized on a certain topic or field, in-depth or divided by the field of reflection (politics, economics, culture, sports, etc.). On that basis, journalist Nguyen Tri Thuc suggests specific ways to organize thematic articles, thematic pages, groups of thematic articles, thematic issues, etc.

For articles in general, and feature articles in particular, it is important to note that there are 4 types of titles: lead title, main title, sub-title and inter-title. Articles should have an information box. Note that the sapo must be general and attractive. The author must know how to "pave the sand for gold", bringing the best and most attractive things to the work. The feature page adheres to the main and secondary nature, has large and small articles, and should use many different types of journalism to make it attractive and lively. For the feature article group, the group of political articles has more weight than the group of press articles. The number of topics that need to be organized has a scale from content to presentation.

Students participated in asking questions and discussing with journalist Nguyen Tri Thuc.

Thematic works need to create an impression, be exclusive, novel, attractive, unique, creative...; carefully crafted images and presentation format.

Through the discussion at the training session, journalist Nguyen Tri Thuc informed about the issues and topics worth noting for propaganda this year. In particular, attention should be paid to propaganda about personnel work with contents such as training, use, rotation of cadres, new regulations of the Party, notably Regulation 114-QD/TW on controlling power and preventing corruption and negativity in personnel work. Summarizing 40 years of innovation, however, this field must choose truly unique issues, with local specificity...

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