Hanoi (VNA) – The National Press Festival 2025 concluded on June 21 afternoon at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi, drawing representatives from various ministries and sectors, journalists, and press enthusiasts from both domestic and international communities.
Delivering the closing remarks, journalist Nguyen Duc Loi, Standing Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association and head of the organising committee, emphasised the three-day festival's resounding success, with nearly 130 booths from 80 central and local press agencies showcasing a panorama of the Vietnamese journalism's professional and modern development trajectory.
The festival, he said, highlighted the contributions and robust development of Vietnam's revolutionary press over the past century while promoting press products and showcasing the creativity of Vietnamese journalists.
The most striking feature of the festival was to clearly demonstrate the trend of digital transformation and technological application in journalism, with various multimedia press products and new technological applications such as AI, virtual reality, and augmented virtual reality to attract readers, showing the press community's proactive approach and determination to keep pace with global advanced technology.
While the festival concluded, its values and lessons have been learned, and inspiration will continue to resonate. Loi stated with a glorious 100-year tradition, unwavering resolve, dynamism, creativity, and high sense of responsibility, Vietnam's revolutionary press will continue achieving greater successes, worthy of the trust from the Party, State, and people.
Within the framework of the festival, the organising committee and awards council presented Prize A to five standout exhibition booths, Prize B to seven ones, Prize C to 16 others, and 19 consolation prizes. Prize A went to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), Vietnam Television, Radio the Voice of Vietnam, Nhan dan (People) Newspaper, and the Vietnam Press Museum.
In the online newspaper category, the VNA's e-newspaper VietnamPlus won Prize A for its interactive 3D multimedia feature “Hung ca thong nhat” (the epic of reunification) as an impressive journalistic work.
Additionally, the VNA earned Prize B for print cover design with its spring 2025 edition of Tuan Tin tuc (weekly news), and another Prize B in photojournalism for photographer Nguyen Khanh Hoa’s work on “tuong” – a special traditional theatrical artform./.
