(CLO) In order to have quality press works to participate in central and local press awards and win prizes, the Journalists Association at all levels has had creative ways to encourage and motivate journalists to continuously explore, exploit and create.
Search for creative works, discover new things
Every year, the Vietnam Journalists Association, central ministries, departments and agencies and many localities have organized many large and small press awards to commend and honor the professional activities of journalists. However, in order to have press works that compete with many colleagues in central press agencies, local branches and inter-branches have come up with innovative solutions, creating breakthroughs in this professional activity.
In recent years, the Central Press Awards, including the National Press Award, the Hammer and Sickle Award, the Dien Hong Award, etc., are known as large-scale, highly prestigious press awards with strong appeal to journalists. This is demonstrated by the increasing number of press works submitted by press agencies and journalists to the awards.
Lao Cai Newspaper reporters working in Sa Pa during the severe cold spell at the end of 2020. Photo: NVCC
Investment in works is given more importance, the quality of works entered and won each year is improved, the content of the winning works is increasingly diverse and rich, reflecting issues of concern to many social classes.
Among the works that won high prizes in major press awards, there were more works from local press agencies, which showed a strong breakthrough and rise of local press.
At the Lao Cai Journalists Association, in order to have many quality press works participating in press awards, journalists must be multi-talented and multi-tasking, professional in all stages of the process of making a press work. Each journalist now has to work independently, performing many skills.
Lao Cai Journalists Association has proactively coordinated with the Center for Journalism Training - Vietnam Journalists Association to select members to attend training courses according to the plan. At the same time, it has surveyed the needs and training content of members, proactively organized training courses to improve professional skills according to modern journalism trends such as: Multimedia journalism skills, making TV news on smart mobile phones, press photos... for press members in the province.
The Provincial Journalists Association has planned and oriented its members to produce journalistic works to participate in the Project to Support the Creation of High-Quality Journalistic Works and to participate in journalism competitions and awards organized by ministries, sectors and localities. During the implementation of the Project, the Association has always attached importance to the quality of creative works, journalistic works that discover new things, and problems that are still stuck in the process of implementing socio-economic development tasks in the locality to effectively advise the Party Committee and local authorities.
Journalist Nguyen Thi Bich Hong, Permanent Vice President of Lao Cai Provincial Journalists Association shared: “Focusing on creating high-quality press works will be the criteria for members and journalists to strive for. Also from the press works that have received investment support, the Journalists Association has coordinated with press agencies to select them to participate in national press awards. Among the high-quality press works from the implementation of the Project, many have won high prizes in press competitions and awards such as the 15th and 16th National Press Awards and other major Central press awards.”
Arouse the spirit of dedication, overcome all difficulties
At the Thai Nguyen Radio and Television Journalists Association, in the past 12 years, the Association has had the honor of winning the National Press Award 10 times. These honors did not fall from the sky, but were the result of the passion, creativity, and efforts of each member and journalist, the investment strategy from the unit and the support from the Thai Nguyen Provincial Journalists Association.
Members of the Thai Nguyen Provincial Journalists Association visit key projects in Thai Nguyen City. Illustrative photo
As a person who has won many major central and local press awards, journalist Dang Van Nghinh, a member of the Thai Nguyen Radio and Television Journalists Association, has produced many attractive television works that are close to and closely related to the developing life of local people. Most recently, the television work "Suffering from the Law" by him and his colleagues was honored to win the 18th National Press Award - 2023.
The work deeply analyzes the shortcomings in the application of different legal regulations in many localities of the province, clearly stating the bottlenecks in current legal conflicts. The legal regulations are still overlapping, many problems cause difficulties for people and the government when applying them to life to develop the economy. With realistic images from people's daily life combined with the use of modern graphics in illustration, he and his colleagues have created an attractive television work, at the same time making recommendations to remove bottlenecks in current legal conflicts, unlocking resources for socio-economic development in each locality.
Sharing his experience in having award-winning journalism works, journalist Dang Van Nghinh said: “First of all, I would like to mention the phrase luck or having a connection with journalism awards. This is something we often hear, but in my opinion, luck, if any, is only a little bit, and most of it depends on the effort, enthusiasm and passion of each journalist to contribute to themselves and to the profession. We must affirm that in order to win an award, we first need a serious attitude, enthusiasm and responsibility from each person towards researching topics, choosing creative, appropriate and effective ways of expression.”
In reality, to have quality works to participate in journalism awards, it is not only necessary to improve professional skills but also each newspaper itself needs to search and select areas for material from local life practices. Bring new discoveries and differences into its journalism works. Those works have content, form and methods that demonstrate the diligence, depth of professionalism and dedication, ethics and social responsibility of journalists.
These are articles that do not just reflect the current situation but also have to delve into the causes and propose solutions. In other words, the press must participate in the role of creating and proposing solutions. Only then will the work be highly appreciated.
Talking about long-term solutions for this task, journalist Dang Van Nghinh said: “In addition to the need for the Provincial Journalists Association to continue to pay attention to training, fostering, and updating new knowledge, the Associations and leaders of specialized departments also pay attention to spending adequate time for journalists to have the conditions to deeply explore and exploit content and materials from life to create quality works. Only when each individual has a spirit of dedication, overcoming all difficulties and obstacles, can we hope to have success.”
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