The 9th Mekong Delta Press Awards

The Organizing Committee awarded First Prize in the Radio - Television category to Vinh Long Newspaper and Radio and Television Station.

The Organizing Committee awarded the first prize in the radio and television category to Vinh Long Newspaper and Radio and Television Station.

Attending the ceremony were journalist Tran Trong Dung, Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association in charge of the South, Head of the Steering Committee of the Award; comrade Tran Thanh Lam, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Ben Tre Provincial Party Committee; and leaders of press agencies, the Ho Chi Minh City Journalists Association and provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta region...

First Prize awarded to author Nguyen Quoc, Bac Lieu Newspaper

First prize in the print and electronic newspaper category was awarded to author Nguyen Quoc, Bac Lieu Newspaper.

The Mekong Delta Press Award is held annually to promptly recognize, encourage, and reward journalists, reporters, editors, collaborators, resident reporters, and correspondents of regional press agencies who have good quality press works published in 2024 about the Mekong Delta.

The author and group of authors won Second Prize in the Radio and Television category.

Awarding the group of authors who won second prize in the radio and television category.

This year, the Organizing Committee received nearly 300 entries in 4 types of journalism. The preliminary jury selected 111 of the best entries for the final round. Of the 80 excellent entries, the final jury selected 22 winning entries, including: 2 First Prizes, 4 Second Prizes, 6 Third Prizes and 10 Consolation Prizes.

The two works that won the First Prize include: Print and electronic newspaper category: 4-part series "Science and technology - key driving force for the development of the Mekong Delta" by journalist Nguyen Quoc (Bac Lieu Newspaper); radio and television category: 5-part television documentary series "Nine Dragon River Estuaries" by a group of authors Nguyen Thi Cam Nhung, Nguyen Minh Cuong, Tran Tuan Tu and Bui Tan Vu (Vinh Long Newspaper and Radio and Television Station).

First Prize awarded to author and group of authors

Awarding the authors and groups of authors in the radio - television, print - electronic newspaper genres who won the Grand Prize and Encouragement Prize

According to the Organizing Committee, this year's entries are diverse in genre, theme, and content that closely follows current events and conveys a lot of information that is of interest to the audience. In particular, there are some policy communication works that are quite well done.

Some works make good use of modern television skills and techniques as well as multimedia tools in their expression. Print and electronic newspaper works clearly reflect the vibrant lives of people, lands as well as the aspirations of the provinces in the region to excel in all fields.

Topics on Party and government building, environmental protection, and green development have always been invested in by press agencies. In general, the works selected for the final round of the Mekong Delta Press Awards this year represent the innovation and development of regional journalism; demonstrate the positive contributions of journalists in reflecting and orienting public opinion; and at the same time, fulfill the political tasks of each press agency in the region.

The Vietnam Journalists Association in collaboration with the Lao Dong Newspaper presented 2,000 national flags to Thanh Phu district, Ben Tre province.

The Vietnam Journalists Association in collaboration with the Lao Dong Newspaper presented 2,000 national flags to Ben Tre province.

Speaking at the ceremony, journalist Tran Trong Dung emphasized: “Every day we are provided with hot news, analysis - evaluation, objective and truthful comments on many issues in life, stories of love, or examples of strong will, so we appreciate more the passion and the enthusiastic work process of journalists. Because if it were not for the love of the profession, how many people could be steadfast and persistent in the profession.

At the same time, the Head of the Organizing Committee said: In the near future, in the context of the merger of provincial press agencies, in addition to difficulties and challenges, there will also be opportunities and chances for press development if we know how to take advantage of them. Localities have the conditions to focus on investing and providing more support to press agencies in terms of human resources, financial resources, equipment, especially related to digital infrastructure, shared databases, etc., overcoming the situation of scattered and ineffective investment. The area of operation of journalists will be wider, with more fields and more issues to write about.

awarded 50 scholarships to poor ethnic minority students in Ben Tre province.

Awarding 50 scholarships to poor students in Ben Tre province.

Press agencies also have more opportunities to organize behind-the-scenes activities if they know how to take advantage of and exploit well the funding sources from social mobilization. Working in such conditions requires the Mekong Delta press to continue to train and foster modern and creative journalism skills for the team of journalists, actively transform digitally, and improve the digital capacity of the editorial office not only in production, but also in the distribution of press content. In particular, the development of online platforms, social networks and multimedia communications will help expand the scope of information access, increase interaction and feedback from the community and society.

The Association and editorial offices at all levels are interested in directing the implementation and selection of high-quality works to participate in major press awards such as the National Press Award, the Golden Hammer and Sickle Press Award, the Dien Hong Press Award and other regional press awards such as the Mekong Delta Press Award... It is also important to note that investment is being made in works participating in two new categories included in this year's National Press Awards: the Creative Press Award and the Multimedia Press Award.

The organizers took souvenir photos with leaders of Ben Tre province and leaders of press agencies in the Mekong Delta region.

The Organizing Committee took souvenir photos with leaders of Ben Tre province and leaders of press agencies in the Mekong Delta region.

The Mekong Delta Press Award has been held annually since 2016, and is a prestigious professional playground for journalist members and reporters working at press agencies in the Mekong Delta region and resident reporters in the Mekong Delta.

On this occasion, the Vietnam Journalists Association also coordinated with the Lao Dong Newspaper to present 2,000 national flags from the "Proud of the National Flag" program to Ben Tre province. At the same time, 50 scholarships (total value of 50 million VND) were awarded to poor but studious students in Ben Tre province; the Southern Traffic Safety Association Representative Office presented helmets to students and award-winning journalists...

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