President To Lam attends the 18th National Press Awards Ceremony

Also attending the ceremony were: Mr. Nguyen Trong Nghia - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department; Mr. Tran Luu Quang - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister; Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly; Mr. Nguyen Manh Hung - Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Information and Communications; Mr. Le Quoc Minh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Chairman of the Council of the 18th National Press Awards - 2023.

President of Vietnam holds the 18th National Press Awards Ceremony 2023 photo 1 — President To Lam, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper Le Quoc Minh - Chairman of Vietnam Journalists Association and delegates took a souvenir photo.

According to the Organizing Committee, this year's Award Ceremony will be organized in a way that is innovative in content and method to honor authors with outstanding works that win the Award. The Award Ceremony will demonstrate solemnity, have profound political and social significance, and have a strong influence in the press and the whole society; and have the effect of gathering and uniting a large number of reporters and journalists working in press agencies and Journalists Associations at all levels nationwide.

The main content is to honor the award-winning authors, along with special art programs, with famous artists, performances with modern, attractive sound and light.

Of the 165 works in the final round, the Council discussed, evaluated and voted to select 10 A prizes, 26 B prizes, 45 C prizes and 41 Encouragement prizes to award the 18th National Press Awards in 2023. The main highlight is that many works were invested seriously and elaborately, the content discovered new issues, criticized major policies and guidelines of the Party and State; proposed many creative solutions, good ways of doing things that have great influence and influence in society. Many works demonstrated professionalism, attractiveness, and the breath of modern journalism.

Not only central press agencies, many local press agencies have also made many changes in the way they choose topics and themes and implement them in new, modern ways, which are highly appreciated for both quality and form of expression.

Through each season, the quality of the entries gets better and better, the gap between central and local press gets narrower and narrower.