The annual National Press Awards is a major event that attracts special attention from the press nationwide. It is the most prestigious award given to outstanding press works that have made positive contributions to the country's press career, honoring authors and groups of authors with the best works every year.
After 17 years of organization, up to now, the Award continues to receive the active, enthusiastic participation of 18 Associations and 35 affiliated Associations. The number of works by authors who are not members of the Vietnam Journalists Association is 169 works. This shows the strong attraction of the Award and the interest and active response of members and all levels of the Journalists Association nationwide.
Delegates attending the 16th National Press Awards ceremony - 2021.
This year, the number of works submitted to the Award was 1,894, of which 1,774 works qualified for the Preliminary Round. The Preliminary Round judging process was carried out seriously, strictly, in accordance with the Guidelines and Regulations of the Award Council. The 11 Subcommittees of the Preliminary Round judging worked impartially, completed the Preliminary Round judging on time, and achieved good quality.
The Final Round judging process was carried out in accordance with the Award Charter and the working regulations and voting procedures of the Award Council. Of the 157 works entered in the Final Round, the Council discussed, evaluated and voted to select: 9 A prizes, 24 B prizes, 46 C prizes, 45 Encouragement prizes to award the 17th National Press Award - 2022.
According to the Award Council's assessment, the entries for the Award closely followed major themes from politics, economics, culture, society, national defense, security and other aspects of the country's life in 2022, clearly reflecting important events of the country such as: efforts to restore socio-economic development and build an independent and self-reliant economy in the context of being heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic; Party building and rectification, the fight against corruption and negativity, and protecting the Party's ideological foundation.
In general, the works participating in this year's Awards are of fairly even quality, the gap between central and local press is narrowed in many genres. Most of the works are close to reality, highly topical, and address hot spots in 2022 in the fields of politics, economics, society, national security and defense, Party building, etc.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia presented A prizes to the winning authors at the 16th National Press Awards Ceremony.
Many works are invested in carefully, the content is to discover new issues, criticize major policies of the Party and State; propose many creative solutions, good ways of doing things that have the power to spread and influence in society. Many works are of good quality, invested seriously, carefully, have a tight structure, the way of expression is close, vivid, attractive to readers.
The new point this year is that, in addition to the central press agencies, the local press has clearly demonstrated achievements in innovation, creativity, diversity, and multimedia. Many provincial Journalists Associations have shown investment in the selection and improvement of the quality of works for the Award. This year, press photos have more good works than last year, especially in some local units that have invested well in their works, sent more entries, and have photo collections that demonstrate the discovery of topics and professional expression.
At a recent press conference, journalist Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Chairman of the National Press Awards Preliminary Council, said: "The dedication of journalists has been clearly demonstrated in journalistic works, especially journalistic works in the investigative reportage genre. To obtain visual information and create quality products, reporters have overcome difficulties, not afraid of hardship, not even afraid of danger to their lives, overcoming mental pressure, natural disasters, epidemics..."
The 17th National Press Awards Ceremony - 2022 will be solemnly held tomorrow evening (June 21) at the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Labor Cultural Palace and broadcast live on VTV1 channel of Vietnam Television, VOV1 of Voice of Vietnam.
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