Attending the opening session of the Press Forum were comrades: Nguyen Trong Nghia - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department; Tran Luu Quang - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister; Nguyen Manh Hung - Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Information and Communications, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, Vice Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation; Phan Van Mai - Member of the Party Central Committee, Standing Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Tran Thanh Lam - Deputy Secretary of the Ben Tre Provincial Party Committee.
On the side of the Vietnam Journalists Association, there were comrades: 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; Nguyen Duc Loi - Former Member of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association; Tran Trong Dung - Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association.
Also attending the opening session were delegates, representatives of press agencies, press managers; representatives of leaders of agencies, departments, sectors, enterprises, representatives of central press agencies, Ho Chi Minh City and localities.
The Vietnamese revolutionary press is reaching its 100-year milestone. After nearly a century of development, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has increasingly demonstrated its orientation, promoted its mission and responsibility, and improved its operational efficiency, gradually asserting its professionalism, humanity, and modernity, making a very important contribution to the common achievements of the country and the nation.
In the current period, the press has constantly innovated, created, flexibly and effectively promoted the application and mastery of modern communication technology with the launch of many new programs and products, spreading widely on digital platforms, having a good effect on society.
However, facing increasingly fierce competition from new forms of information such as social networks, it is currently an extremely difficult time for the world press as well as the Vietnamese press due to the development of technology, changes in the habits and information consumption behavior of the public, plus the widespread development of fake information and false information, causing the society's trust in the press to decline, while advertising revenue is increasingly decreasing for all types of press, including electronic ones. The press brings useful information to society, but its important role and power over hundreds of years is being threatened by continuous changes, especially in the past decade.
Within the framework of the 2024 National Press Festival, the Vietnam Journalists Association will organize the National Press Forum for the first time. The Forum will take place over 2 days with 12 sessions, including 2 opening and closing plenary sessions; 10 discussion sessions with attractive topics, related to the top concerns of press agencies and press management agencies.
The Vietnam Journalists Association hopes that this will be an annual forum to discuss issues related to the press life that are of interest to the domestic and international press and media. At the same time, the forum will also be a meeting place, exchanging and sharing experiences of leaders of press agencies, leaders of press management agencies, journalists as well as media and technology experts...
At the opening ceremony of the Forum, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association Le Quoc Minh gave a general presentation titled: "Vietnamese Press: Challenges - Opportunities".
According to the Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association, in the context of general difficulties in the domestic and world economy, in the encroachment and fierce competition from social networks, in the change of public information tastes, the world press in general and the Vietnamese press in particular have to face countless difficulties and challenges, the most difficult of which is the issue of press economics. In recent times, in order to maintain operations, many press agencies have had to make maximum cuts in costs, personnel, etc.
However, in challenges there are always opportunities. What is important for Vietnamese press agencies today is to see what opportunities there are so that each press agency, whether central or local, large or small, can find its own direction.
After the opening session, the program will continue with 10 in-depth discussion sessions on topics of interest to the press such as: Enhancing Party spirit and orientation in journalism activities; Building a cultural journalism environment; Data journalism and outstanding content strategy; Investing and effectively applying technology in newsrooms; Competitiveness of television in the AI era; Investigative reporting - Journey to do useful things; Effective cooperation model between press, businesses and advertising agencies;...
Through discussion sessions from the forum, press agencies proactively and boldly experiment to find their own path while contributing to the overall development of Vietnam's revolutionary press.
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