Honoring great achievements and strong dedication
The 7th National Press Festival in 2024 with the theme "Vietnamese Press - Pioneering, Innovating for the Revolutionary Cause of the Party and People" was held for the first time by the Vietnam Journalists Association in Ho Chi Minh City - the city honored to be named after beloved Uncle Ho, the city of "epic poems", the symbol of Vietnamese revolutionary heroism, the symbol of dynamism, creativity, and innovation.
During the 3 days (March 15-17), the 2024 National Press Festival was honored to welcome many Party and State leaders, leaders of ministries, branches, Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and some localities, veteran journalists and many international guests to visit and interact with journalists.
Delegates cut the ribbon to open the 2024 National Press Festival.
The theme of the 2024 National Press Festival is "Vietnamese Press - Pioneer, Innovation for the Revolutionary Cause of the Party and the People". Pioneer in information, propaganda, and orientation of public opinion on important political, socio-economic, defense, security, foreign affairs tasks of the country. Innovation in leadership and direction methods, management thinking, information content, production and publishing processes, production and business, and diversification of revenue sources so that the press can maintain and master, be the main and important information stream on the information and communication front, especially in cyberspace. These tasks are all aimed at the noble goal of "For the revolutionary cause of the Party and the People". |
The 2024 National Press Festival, with its new organization method and many rich and attractive activities, attracted 120 booths displaying outstanding and typical press publications from hundreds of central and local press agencies and all levels of the Vietnam Journalists Association in 63 provinces and cities across the country.
Notably, there are 112 special press exhibition booths of newspapers and magazines from popular to specialized, covering all aspects of the country's political and social life; 8 special exhibition booths of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency, Military Press, Public Security Press, Government Electronic Information Portal, and the National Assembly Office. What is special is that, parallel to the system of exhibition booths showing an overview of contemporary Vietnamese press in a professional - humanistic - modern direction is the thematic exhibition booth "Vietnamese Revolutionary Press 1925-2024: 99 PROFESSIONAL STORIES". This is the historical story of 99 years of Vietnamese Revolutionary Press, with stories of dedication and sacrifice, labor and creativity of generations of journalists - soldiers.
Commenting on the 2024 National Press Festival, comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department, assessed: "This is the first time the National Press Festival has been held in the southern region with many activities, events, professional forums, and booths displaying press products nationwide.
The new point of this Press Festival is that in addition to press issues, the press public nationwide will be able to visit, introduce, connect and purchase OCOP products from many regions of the country. The Press Festival has attracted a large number of journalists, the public and domestic and foreign tourists.
With a new organization method, the exhibition areas are designed in a modern, extremely rich and attractive way, during the 3 days of the Press Festival, the public and the press nationwide saw a panoramic picture of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Press in 2023: from the results of information and propaganda work to professional press activities; from the discoveries, reflections, recommendations, and interpretations of the press to the transformation of those proposals and interpretations into practical operations and management; is the implementation of the mission of "building trust for cadres, party members, and people in the noble cause of our Party and nation".
The National Press Festival is also an opportunity for the press to meet and better understand the information needs and tastes of readers and audiences, thereby creating press products that closely follow real life, thereby informing the Party's policies and the State's policies, reflecting the reality of all aspects of life, listening, analyzing, inspiring and guiding public opinion, thereby contributing to the cause of economic, cultural, social, security and defense development of the country.
The participation of 64 OCOP product booths, 12 sessions of the National Press Forum; the Football Tournament of the Journalist & Public Opinion Cup, the program "Vietnamese Youth - Hung Cuong Aspiration" and special cultural and artistic activities of units and partners from localities... were impressive events at the 2024 National Press Festival. These events contributed to increasing the connection between the press, the public and businesses, creating an open cultural space for exchange, promotion and cooperation activities for mutual development.
The national press forum with 10 discussion sessions on press and media topics is very exciting and practical for journalists nationwide.
“I appreciate the preparation, the spirit of innovation, creativity and pioneering activities of the press in the past year, the new ways of doing things that brought practical results of the Organizing Committee and the agencies participating in the 2024 Press Festival, in line with the theme of the Press Festival "Vietnamese Press - Pioneering, Innovating for the revolutionary cause of the Party and People" - Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia emphasized.
Professional imprint and impressive display booth
Looking at the echoes, the widespread spread on the media, articles on websites, personal forums... it can be seen that the biggest highlight of the National Press Conference is the National Press Forum. Held for the first time, with 12 sessions, including 2 opening and closing plenary sessions and 10 in-depth discussion sessions, the National Press Forum has made a very strong impression on the public, especially the profession when gathering up to 70 speakers who are experienced domestic journalists and prestigious international media experts to discuss important and urgent topics of the current Vietnamese Revolutionary Press. The 10 discussion sessions in the National Press Forum truly brought a panoramic view, a perspective of the times as well as every corner of press and media activities.
The 12 sessions of the Press Forum were all packed with guests, many discussion sessions had no more room to add chairs, the enthusiasm of both the host and the speakers participating with the guests showed that the public is still very interested in the press. In-depth professional issues of media journalism such as data journalism with digital tools such as artificial intelligence, blockchain technology; the risk of fake news, misinformation created by artificial intelligence and other digital tools; copyright of journalism in the digital environment; the confidences, sharing of experiences, and deep emotions of investigative journalists... are still extremely attractive to the public.
The 2024 National Press Conference was honored to welcome many Party and State leaders, leaders of ministries, branches, Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and several localities.
According to comrade Le Quoc Minh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association, the 2024 National Press Festival is also an opportunity to honor the great achievements and strong development, the spirit of innovation, strong will to rise, the spirit of dedication and high responsibility of the Vietnamese press, educate tradition, encourage self-esteem, pride in the 99-year tradition of Revolutionary Press and arouse the desire for creativity, innovation and dedication of the team of journalists - members. At the same time, commend and encourage the great contributions of units, individuals, organizations and businesses that have made many positive contributions to the cause of revolutionary journalism in Vietnam. Within the framework of the 2024 National Press Festival, the Organizing Committee presented important awards such as: Impressive Tet Radio Award; Impressive Tet TV Program Award; Impressive Tet e-newspaper interface; Impressive Tet Newspaper Cover Award; Impressive Display Booth Award. |
The public was also impressed by the liveliness and uniqueness of some exhibition booths, including the booth of the Vietnam News Agency Journalists Association with the message "Key information, keeping up with the trend". The VNA booth at the 2024 National Press Festival focused on photo information, one of the key and pioneering information strengths of the national news agency since its inception.
Here, "Moments that go with the years" introduces outstanding photo works by generations of VNA reporters. The highlight is the photo "Uncle Ho beats the song of solidarity", the Ho Chi Minh Prize for Literature and Arts by author Lam Hong Long. Next are the works of 7 VNA authors honored with the Ho Chi Minh Prize, the State Prize for Literature and Arts, and the field of photography in 2023; photo works that won high prizes at major press awards. Each photo has a QR code attached so that readers can easily access articles about the author and the work. The photo slideshow helps the public access accurate and diverse photo information about political and diplomatic events, and outstanding socio-economic achievements of the country through the lens of VNA reporters.
Keeping up with the development trend of digital journalism, VNA also introduced a number of technological applications in journalism and media activities, with the desire to bring the public interesting experiences. The unique and modern 360 Photo Booth Check-in is a "hot trend" at events. Participants can own videos with their personal mark, using 360-degree recording technology with slow-motion, fast-forward, reverse effects and interesting music. After visiting the exhibition booth, visitors can use the check-in clip to post on social networking platforms, marking an interesting experience at the 2024 National Press Festival. With these unique and novel ideas, VNA won the A prize in the category of Impressive Exhibition Booth.
Spreading the "Convergence of Vitality"
Every year, the Spring Press Festival and the National Press Festival are held with all types of press, including: printed newspapers, electronic newspapers, books, art photos, and news photos from press agencies nationwide. This has gradually become a spiritual and cultural activity, becoming an annual traditional beauty of the press nationwide.
The event also attracted public attention, contributing to encouraging the spirit and motivating all classes of people and journalists to welcome a warm and joyful new spring. Not only stopping at the Press Festival, at the end of the programs, the Organizing Committee presented press publications and Spring newspapers to libraries, cultural houses in remote areas and border guards on duty at the border and islands. From there, it helped spread the traditional cultural values of reading newspapers to a wider audience.
The Journalist & Public Opinion Newspaper Cup Football Tournament - the welcoming event of the 2024 National Press Association took place in an exciting, fierce and noble manner.
On March 17 and 18, many important events of the Vietnam Journalists Association took place in Ho Chi Minh City. Accordingly: On March 17, the Vietnam Journalists Association held the 3rd Conference of the Vietnam Journalists Association Inspection Committee for the 2020-2025 term to enhance the position and responsibility of the Inspection Committee in the new situation. Next is the 4th Conference of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Journalists Association, 11th tenure, reporting on the results of the Vietnam Journalists Association's activities in 2023 and the first quarter of 2024; preparing for the 100th Anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day. On March 18, 3 parts of the program took place: the 2024 National Conference of the Vietnam Journalists Association, the Conference to review 3 years of implementing Decision No. 558/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister and the 2024 Emulation and Reward Conference. |
An interesting highlight that cannot be ignored is the music programs that took place consecutively on the evenings of March 15-16, which were the highlight connecting the activities of the press publication exhibition and the vibrant vitality of Ho Chi Minh City. These are also the factors that create the attraction of the National Press Festival 2024. Most notably, the press public and the people of Ho Chi Minh City had a "burning" night with rock music when the Organizing Committee of the National Press Festival 2024 organized a free music night called "Convergence of Vitality".
Right on the first night, with the participation of many famous bands and artists in the Vietnamese rock scene such as Microwave, Chippunks, Breeze, Ha Di, ... brought an explosion of emotions. At the same time, it attracted many audiences and made the event area become the center of the vitality of the area. In the middle of the Press Conference program - a playground for journalists, having this special rock night is really something that few people think of. But the unexpected success with 4 hours from 7pm, the later the night, the more crowded, affirmed the strong vitality of music in the hearts of the public.
In addition, within the framework of the 2024 National Press Festival, there will also be a Cultural and Artistic program with the theme "Vietnamese Youth - Aspiration for Power". The program is jointly organized by the Youth Union of the Vietnam Journalists Association - Vietnam Television - Vietnam News Agency, taking place on Le Loi Street (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) to celebrate the success of the 2024 National Press Festival, which took place for the first time in Ho Chi Minh City, and at the same time, to celebrate the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (March 26, 1931 - March 26, 2024).
This art program contributes to arousing national pride, love for the homeland and country; encouraging the spirit, demonstrating the strong will of young people to realize their aspirations to contribute to building a strong and prosperous country. Notably, before that, the 3rd Journalists & Public Opinion Cup Football Tournament - Welcome to the National Press Festival 2024, held for the first time in Ho Chi Minh City, was also successful with the participation of 12 football teams from press agencies, Journalists Associations at all levels, and businesses nationwide.
The vibrant rock music night attracted the public.
It can be said that the National Press Festival is an annual event, but every year, the Organizing Committee strives to innovate and create to bring the most impressive and attractive impressions to the public. And this year, the 2024 National Press Festival with its large scale, full of excitement and practicality has brought unforgettable emotions to journalists and the press public, as Comrade Nguyen Duc Loi - Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association affirmed: “The success of the National Press Festival this year clearly demonstrates the results of the spirit of solidarity between press agencies, press management and direction agencies; between the Journalists Association at all levels; between the press - businesses - the public. Together we join hands, unanimously promote innovation in journalism, together seize opportunities, together strive to collaborate to overcome difficulties and challenges, towards a modern, professional, humane journalism, to serve the country and the people better and better. That is also the message of this year's National Press Festival: "Vietnamese Press - Pioneering, Innovating for the revolutionary cause of the Party and People".
Hoang Anh
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