Works that are close to reality, highly topical, and address hot spots of the year

Attending the meeting were journalist Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Permanent Vice President of the National Press Awards Council, Chairman of the Preliminary Council; journalist Do Thi Thu Hang, member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Professional Committee of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Vice President of the Preliminary Council, Head of the General Secretariat of the Awards...

The work makes a good impression of its elaborateness and enthusiasm.

The preliminary council of the 18th National Press Awards 2023 met to summarize the preliminary round and discuss the content and quality of the works submitted for the Award.

Summarizing the preliminary round assessment, journalist Do Thi Thu Hang said that since its launch, the 18th National Press Award - 2023 has continued to receive positive responses from all levels of the Association and individual journalists and members; attracting the participation of 18/21 Inter-Association Branches and 30/223 affiliated Branches, especially 63/63 Provincial and Municipal Journalists Associations, with 1,905 works submitted.

Of these, 1,827 works met the requirements, and 127 were written by authors who were not members of the Vietnam Journalists Association. This demonstrates the strong appeal of the 18th National Press Award and the strong interest and response of members and all levels of the Journalists Association nationwide.

Journalist Do Thi Thu Hang, member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Professional Committee of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Vice President of the Preliminary Council, Head of the Secretariat of the Award, reported on the results of the Award as well as the quality of the works.

The activities of the Award Council were carried out in accordance with the Award Charter and on schedule. After implementing the steps as prescribed, on April 16, 2023, the Preliminary Council held its first meeting, opening the preliminary round. With a sense of responsibility, working truly objectively and impartially, the Preliminary Council unanimously selected 165 works for the final round.

According to the organizers, entering its 18th year, the prestige of the National Press Award has been increasingly affirmed, the value of the award has been widely spread throughout all levels of the Association and its members. Many large Associations and Associations have maintained the quality of their entries. Notably, there has been the participation of a number of magazines with elaborately invested works. Many provincial Journalists Associations have invested in the selection and improvement of the quality of entries.

The members of the Preliminary Council worked urgently, seriously, closely, in accordance with the Guidelines and Regulations of the Award Council.

The preliminary judging process was carried out urgently, seriously, strictly, in accordance with the Guidelines and Regulations of the Award Council. The 11 Subcommittees of the Preliminary Judging Council worked impartially, transparently, upholding a sense of responsibility, completing the preliminary judging on time, achieving good quality. The preliminary results were fully summarized and sent to the members of the Final Judging Council early, creating better conditions for the Final Judging Council to research and evaluate the works.

In general, the works participating in this year's Awards are of good quality. Most of the works are close to reality, highly topical, addressing hot spots in 2023 in the fields of politics, economics, society, national security and defense, Party building, etc. Many works are invested in carefully, the content is to discover new issues, criticize major policies and guidelines of the Party and State; propose many creative solutions, good ways of doing things that have the power to spread and influence in society. Many works are of good quality, invested seriously and carefully, have a tight structure, and the way of expression is close, vivid, and attractive to readers.

Journalist Nguyen Thi Su - Deputy General Director of VNA, member of the Examination Council shared at the meeting.

In addition, there are many works that clearly demonstrate the dedication of authors nationwide to current and hot topics of society, analyzing and handling recommendations on important issues of social life. Many reportage works have truly made a good impression on the diligence, enthusiasm and sense of responsibility of writers and press agencies towards community issues, which have been appropriately handled by relevant agencies, creating an effect in society.

At the evaluation meeting, the Chairman of the Preliminary Council and members of the 11 Subcommittees of the Preliminary Council discussed, evaluated and commented on the content and quality of the works submitted to the Award this year. They highlighted the highlights and progress of the works in different genres. They also offered some suggestions and solutions to improve the quality of works submitted to the Award in the following years...

This year's National Press Awards ceremony will have innovations.

Journalist Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Permanent Vice President of the National Press Awards Council, Chairman of the Preliminary Council, received comments and proposed a number of tasks and solutions for the coming time.

Receiving the opinions of the members of the Preliminary Council, journalist Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Chairman of the Preliminary Council said: This year, the quality of the works participating in the award was highly appreciated by the members, the quality of the works was better in terms of content, the topics covered all aspects of the country's socio-economic life during the year.

However, in some traditional journalism genres, there has always been readers' interest, such as memoirs, essays, editorials... which are increasingly less, over the seasons, press agencies have rarely sent works in this genre to participate in the Awards. This requires innovation in the propaganda work about the Awards, how to always encourage grassroots organizations, mobilize press agencies and magazines to participate.

Journalist Ngo Minh Tuan - Editor-in-Chief of Party Building Magazine informed about the results of the Award.

Journalist Nguyen Duc Loi assessed that there is still confusion about distinguishing between press genres when submitting entries to the Awards. The Association of Journalists at the grassroots level needs to have specific guidance on this issue, to enhance the responsibility of leaders of press agencies and branches in the process of screening and selecting works to submit to the Awards.

Journalist Nguyen Duc Loi said that this year and in recent years, the quality of works between central and local press agencies has been increasingly narrowing, which shows that the professional quality of local journalists and investment in local journalism technology have made many improvements. Regarding the genre of press photos, this year the quality is better, which shows a positive change, however, the content of single photos is still weak, many authors still keep the habit of sending photo series, while there are few artistic photos in press works.

Members of the Preliminary Jury shared and suggested solutions to improve the quality of entries in the following years... In the photo, journalist Ta Bich Loan - Head of Entertainment Program Production (VTV3), Vietnam Television contributed many important ideas.

Regarding the structure of the Award, the Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association affirmed: "This has been studied by the Journalists Association. In the coming time, in addition to receiving comments from members, the Association at all levels will also organize a number of seminars and discussions on this topic. This is an important condition to widely solicit opinions from grassroots organizations and journalists to have a basis for amending the regulations and structure of the Award... in which it will be agreed whether to include some new journalism genres or not. However, all changes will be based on the basis of inheritance for development, caution...".

At the meeting, Journalist Nguyen Duc Loi also assessed that this year's National Press Awards Ceremony will have innovations in the organization method to be worthy of the most prestigious award in the field of journalism.

Journalist Ho Sy Minh, Editor-in-Chief of Photography and Life Magazine, informs about the genre of photojournalism.

Finally, the members of the Preliminary Council spent time discussing, exchanging and agreeing on adding 3 works to the Final round of the National Press Award in some contents in the print newspaper category...

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