While news agencies are facing decreasing revenues from readership, advertisement and the State budget, digital transformation is required to help media survive, develop and catch up with the developments of the region and the world, said Hoang Vinh Bao, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications.
Vietnam Press Museum is the place to keep documents and artifacts attached to the Vietnam press history from the resistance war to present. This is also a place to record memories of the national history and social life of Vietnam.
A forum was held by the Vietnam Business Forum Magazine and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in Hanoi on July 14, discussing how businesses and the press can seize opportunities from the COVID-19 crisis to cooperate and grow together.
Member of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and deputy head of the PCC’s Commission for Communications and Education Thuan Huu hosted a reception for US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink in Hanoi on July 1.
The Vietnam Press Museum, which opened on June 19, is not only a place to keep documents and items featuring the history of the press sector, but also a venue to keep the memories of national history and social life in general.
Ninety-five years ago on June 21, 1926, the first issue of Thanh nien (Youth) newspaper representing the voice of Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc (aka Ho Chi Minh) was published, marking the birth of Vietnam’s revolutionary press as the country remained under the yoke of French colonial rule.
The Vietnam Journalists’ Association held a ceremony on June 19 to officially open the Vietnam Press Museum in celebration of the 95th Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day on June 21.
Over the last 95 years, Vietnam’s revolutionary journalism, founded and led by President Ho Chi Minh, has always followed the valiant struggles of the Party and people for national independence and for socialism.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam extended his greetings on June 16 to journalists and reporters nationwide on the occasion of the 95th Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day on June 21.
The 14th National Press Awards 2019 will be held in Hanoi on June 21 night, honouring more than 100 outstanding articles by journalists nationwide, announced the jury council in Hanoi on June 15.
Thanh Nien (Youth) newspaper, founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc – Ho Chi Minh, was first published on June 21, 1925, marking the birth of Vietnam’s Revolutionary Press.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited the Nhan dan (People) newspaper on June 12, offering congratulations on the 95th Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21).
The ceremony for the first National Press Award on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control will be delayed until October due to the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has said.
On April 21, 1950, the first Congress of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association was held in Roong Khoa hamlet, Diem Mac commune, Dinh Hoa district, Thai Nguyen province.
Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong has expressed his wish that members of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA) and journalists nationwide will make greater efforts to deserve their role as soldiers on the ideology and culture front.
Amid mushrooming untrue and hoax information about the COVID-19 pandemic that cause apprehension and worry among the public, the role of official media agencies – the mainstream media – in orientating public opinions is all the more important.
The COVID-19 pandemic swept through the world like a tsunami in 2020, and along with it, a giant underwater wave named Fake News also came to the surface. In the fight against viral fake news, journalists are at the centre, with the task of countering misleading information.
The fourth “Bua Liem Vang” (Golden Hammer & Sickle) Press Awards 2019 honoured journalists and their works about the Party building in Hanoi on January 15.
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