According to the political report at the Congress, the Hai Duong Provincial Journalists Association currently has 195 members who are journalists working at the province's press and propaganda agencies, and are active in 8 affiliated Journalists' Associations and Clubs.
Delegates attending the 9th Congress of Hai Duong Provincial Journalists Association for the 2023-2028 term. Photo: D.Khanh
The branches have closely followed the direction of the Vietnam Journalists Association, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee. The Provincial Journalists Association has coordinated with press agencies to encourage journalist members to promote emulation movements in the branches and Journalists Clubs. Timely commend and encourage members with excellent journalistic works and many achievements contributing to the movement and work of the association. During the past term, the Association has focused on building an increasingly clean and strong organization, a common home that gathers and unites journalists to perform well their political tasks.
The Associations and Journalists' Clubs coordinate with the government and propaganda organizations to mobilize people to carry out political tasks and develop the local socio-economy, actively respond to emulation movements and campaigns, and participate in Party building and government building.
In October 2022, the Provincial Journalists Association organized the signing of the emulation covenant "Building a cultural environment in press agencies", striving to implement 12 specific criteria. 100% of press agencies in the province organized the signing of the emulation covenant, setting the goal that by 2025, 100% of agencies will achieve the status of cultural agencies; 100% of cadres, reporters, and journalist members will not violate the Party's policies, the State's laws and policies, and the agency's internal rules and regulations.
Comrade Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, presented flowers to congratulate the congress. Photo: D.Khanh
The Provincial Journalists Association organizes annual professional training courses on each topic. The training content is based on the needs of the press agency for each subject such as: press operations, press genres for new reporters, enhancing the leadership role in editorial work, issues of national and global press development orientation, managing fanpages in press agencies, organizing thematic talks for all members, etc.
During the past term, the Association organized 5 thematic talks and professional training sessions for hundreds of members with the communication of prestigious and experienced journalists who have in-depth research on the field of journalism. The Hai Duong Provincial Journalists Association successfully hosted the Regional Conference of 8 Northern Coastal Delta provinces with the theme "Journalism and the work of protecting the Party's ideological foundation", successfully organized the 5th Nguyen Luong Bang Journalism Award, organized the ceremony to celebrate Vietnam Revolutionary Journalism Day and presented the annual Provincial Journalists Association Press Awards.
The Journalists Association has organized many field trips for members and experience learning in other provinces for members, journalists, and staff of the Association Office. At the congress, the Executive Committee of the Hai Duong Provincial Journalists Association, term IX, 2023-2028, consisting of 9 comrades, introduced themselves to the congress. The congress passed a Resolution with 10 key tasks for the 2023-2028 term.
The 9th Congress of Hai Duong Provincial Journalists Association for the 2023-2028 term. Photo: D.Khanh
Speaking at the congress, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association Nguyen Duc Loi acknowledged, praised and expressed his joy at the continuous growth and development in all aspects of the Journalists Association and press agencies of Hai Duong province in the past term.
Comrade Nguyen Duc Loi emphasized that the press agencies of Hai Duong province have constantly innovated and updated changes in technology to create new press products, keeping up with the development trends of modern journalism. Many new columns and new information have also been widely shared on social networking sites.
It can be affirmed that the "common home" of Hai Duong journalists is growing stronger and stronger, a place for solidarity, gathering, and training of political qualities, expertise, and professional ethics of journalists, with an increasingly large team and increasingly improved quality. The Hai Duong Journalists Association has done a good job of leadership and direction, proactively and actively coordinated press management, created conditions for members to practice their profession, and protected members in their professional activities, constantly enhancing the prestige and promoting the influence of the organization.
Comrade Nguyen Duc Loi, former member of the Party Central Committee and Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, spoke at the congress. Photo: D.Khanh
Promoting the achieved results, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association Nguyen Duc Loi suggested that the Provincial Journalists Association should continue to thoroughly grasp, deploy and implement well the directives and resolutions of the Party and the Vietnam Journalists Association on press work in the new situation; continue to promote studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style, especially his journalism style, associated with implementing the Press Law, 10 regulations on professional ethics, rules for using social networks of Vietnamese journalists...
Comrade Nguyen Duc Loi emphasized that in the face of the inevitable trend of digital transformation of journalism, the construction of a convergent newsroom, a multimedia press agency as well as the building of a multi-talented team of reporters. Having high professional qualifications, professionalism, culture and ethics suitable for working in the digital environment requires leadership, direction, attention and facilitation, and support from the province, the governing body, and the press agency.
The Journalists Association, the provincial press agencies, and reporters from press agencies stationed in Hai Duong need to closely follow the direction of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee to direct all activities of the association to contribute to the successful implementation of the province's political tasks; spread the image of a province of solidarity, innovation, and creativity with the aspiration to break through for rapid and sustainable development...
Provincial Party Secretary Tran Duc Thang gave a speech at the congress. Photo: D.Khanh
Speaking at the congress, Hai Duong Provincial Party Secretary Tran Duc Thang requested the Provincial Journalists Association and press agencies to actively innovate methods and improve the quality of their activities. Continue to implement President Ho Chi Minh's teachings during his lifetime: "Journalists are also revolutionary soldiers". The press must truly become a sharp weapon on the ideological front, continue to play a pioneering role in firmly protecting the Party's ideological foundation, and strengthen the people's trust. This is the top requirement and task of the association and journalists in Hai Duong province.
The Provincial Party Secretary emphasized that every journalist must truly be a revolutionary soldier. Every true revolutionary journalist must build for himself a revolutionary offensive spirit, a spirit of daring to fight against the wrong, the bad, the conservative, the backward and the stagnant, to protect the right and the good, to contribute to "using the good to eliminate the bad" for the common interests of the Party, the country and the people.
Information in the press must be accurate, timely, healthy, practical, combative, and orientate public opinion; frankly fight against false arguments, especially in cyberspace; and actively contribute to the fight against corruption, waste, bureaucracy, and negative manifestations.
Comrade Nguyen Minh Hung, Vice Chairman of Hai Duong Provincial People's Committee, presented a certificate of merit from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to the Provincial Journalists Association.
On this occasion, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded certificates of merit to the Hai Duong Provincial Journalists Association and two individuals with outstanding achievements in performing the association's work for the 2018-2023 term.
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