Celebrating the 78th Anniversary of Khanh Hoa Newspaper's Traditional Day (April 26, 1947 - April 26, 2025): Khanh Hoa Newspaper - Proud of 78 years of construction and development

The newspaper was born from the revolutionary base.

According to the memories of veteran revolutionary cadres such as Nguyen Minh Vy, Ly Van Sau, Vo Van Sung... in the book We Make Khanh Hoa Newspaper published 25 years ago, on April 26, 1946, at the Expanded Conference (Dien Khanh), Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee issued a resolution to establish a newspaper of the provincial Party Committee called Thang Newspaper. After a year of preparation, in April 1947, the newspaper was born in Hon Du war zone. Thang Newspaper was printed using stone printing technique, each month published 2-3 issues, each issue consisted of 4 pages, printed about 600-700 copies, using sarco-bone ink. Despite the harsh conditions, the newspaper still spread strongly among the masses. "People in the city (Nha Trang) were very excited to receive the newspaper... They treasured it and secretly passed it around to read. As long as the newspaper remains, the revolution remains...", comrade Nguyen Minh Vy - former Chairman of the Provincial Administrative Resistance Committee - recounted.

Khanh Hoa Newspaper reporters won the 2023 Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Building Journalism Award taking a photo with provincial leaders.

Initially, the team working on Bao Thang consisted of only 5 people led by comrade Nguyen Minh Vy. However, to produce the newspaper, the revolutionary compatriots had to make great efforts. “The birth of Bao Thang was a great effort, not by one or a group of people, but by dozens, hundreds of people with and without names, the result of a sophisticated and effective organizational system, from the war zone to the countryside, to the city and vice versa…”, journalist Ly Van Sau recalled. Stone tablets for engraving were taken from Dien Khanh and carried up the mountain; white paper, ink and printing rollers were sent up by establishments in Nha Trang city. Gasoline and oil were collected and put into bamboo tubes and carried up to the war zone to run generators to collect news for the newspaper production… The printed newspapers were then sent back to the districts and city of Nha Trang so that the establishments could distribute the newspapers to the masses.

Growing up in hardship

During the two resistance wars, the newspaper's name changed depending on the period: Thong Tin (1951 - 1954), Gio Moi (1954 - 1956), Giai Phong Khanh Hoa (1965 - 1975). Despite the different names, the newspaper was still an effective tool of the provincial Party Committee, encouraging the revolutionary movement, preserving faith and ideals in the most difficult times. At the end of 1975, after merging the two provinces of Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa into Phu Khanh province, the two newspapers Giai Phong Phu Yen and Giai Phong Khanh Hoa merged into Phu Khanh Newspaper. The newspaper quickly caught up with the new mission, closely reflecting local life, promptly propagating the Party's guidelines. In particular, Khanh Hoa Newspaper initiated the first Central - Central Highlands Party Newspaper Conference in 1983, opening a traditional activity for the press in the region.

Readers read Khanh Hoa Newspaper at the Spring Newspaper Festival of At Ty 2025.

In 1989, after the re-establishment of Khanh Hoa province, Khanh Hoa Newspaper was re-established with 2 issues/week. Despite the difficult conditions, the newspaper still adhered to reality and constantly innovated. The publication of Khanh Hoa Sunday Newspaper and the expansion of the distribution network were bold steps, demonstrating the increasingly modern way of making newspapers, marking an important step in the maturity of the newspaper.

Firm steps to the future

Entering the 21st century, Khanh Hoa Newspaper has constantly innovated. From 3 issues/week, the newspaper has increased to 6 issues/week with 12 pages per issue. In 2003, Khanh Hoa Newspaper's Electronic Information Page was born. At this time, Khanh Hoa Newspaper was one of the few newspapers in the Central - Central Highlands region to launch an Electronic Information Page version for the first time. In 2017, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the newspaper's tradition, the Electronic Information Page was officially upgraded to Khanh Hoa Electronic Newspaper. To date, the newspaper has developed into a multimedia platform, continuously updating news, articles, clips, photo reports, e-Magazines, podcasts, etc. Since the end of 2024, Khanh Hoa Electronic Newspaper has opened additional TV columns Hello New Day and Today's Issues, while building a content ecosystem on Fanpage, YouTube, TikTok, expanding the reach of readers.

Continuously innovating and improving the quality of the newspaper, Khanh Hoa Newspaper has many quality press works reflecting all aspects of political , economic, cultural and social life towards the goal of making Khanh Hoa a centrally-run city by 2030 according to Resolution No. 09 of the Politburo on building and developing Khanh Hoa province by 2030, with a vision to 2045; towards the decade of raising the level of development, together with the whole country entering a new era, the era of national growth.

In addition to fulfilling its political tasks, Khanh Hoa Newspaper also actively contributes to social security work with many meaningful and practical activities to help those in difficult circumstances. In 2024 alone, Khanh Hoa Newspaper connected and mobilized units, businesses and readers to build and donate 5 charity houses with a total cost of 435 million VND to poor households in localities in the province. Khanh Hoa Newspaper's charity mailbox has donated more than 550 million VND to 7 cases of children with serious illnesses and orphans.

From Thang Newspaper in the old war zone to Khanh Hoa Newspaper today is a proud 78-year journey. The staff, reporters and editors of Khanh Hoa Newspaper have always fulfilled their assigned tasks well, making constant efforts to make the newspaper worthy of being the voice of the Party Committee, government and people of Khanh Hoa. The tireless efforts of Khanh Hoa Newspaper over the past 78 years have been recognized by the Party and State with many noble awards, including the Third Class Independence Medal in 2007, twice being awarded the First Class Labor Medal... Honored and proud, the people working at Khanh Hoa Newspaper today vow to promote the precious tradition, constantly improve their qualifications and professional ethics, develop the newspaper to be more and more modern, closely connected with people's lives, contributing to the sustainable development of the province.

Over the years, Khanh Hoa Newspaper has continuously won many high awards at the Khanh Hoa Provincial Press Awards, the Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Building Press Awards; some works have won the National Press Awards and the National Party Building Press Awards. The newspaper has also won the Impressive Tet Newspaper Cover Award many times at the National Press Festival. In 2023, Khanh Hoa Newspaper ranked 3rd and in 2024, it ranked first in the Local Press Bloc in terms of maturity in digital transformation of the press.

THANH NGUYEN

Source: https://baokhanhhoa.vn/xa-hoi/202504/ky-niem-78-nam-ngay-truyen-thong-bao-khanh-hoa-26-4-1947-26-4-2025-bao-khanh-hoa-tu-hao-78-nam-xay-dung-va-phat-trien-3b616a0/