Havana (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has consistently diversified its media platforms to fulfil its mission of delivering Vietnam’s official information to the world, said journalist Dilbert Reyes Rodríguez, Acting Editor-in-Chief of Granma, the organ of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Speaking to VNA correspondents in Havana on the occasion of the agency’s 80th founding anniversary, Rodríguez stressed that the establishment of VNA, just two weeks after President Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Declaration of Independence, as the country’s first news agency was a milestone of historical significance for Vietnam’s revolutionary press.
He noted that the VNA has diversified its information channels to strengthen its external communications, with publications such as Vietnam News, Le Courrier du Vietnam, and VietnamPlus - an e-newspaper providing news in six languages. These demonstrate the agency’s growing importance and expanding reach.
By disseminating news about Vietnam internationally, the VNA’s platforms have helped raise global awareness of the Party and State’s guidelines and policies, provided information for foreign media outlets, and met the information needs of overseas Vietnamese communities.
According to the Cuban journalist, the VNA’s strong presence is reinforced by its extensive network of correspondents in all provinces and cities in Vietnam, and dozens of countries and territories worldwide. Combined with the professionalism of its journalists and modern technological infrastructure, the VNA has effectively fulfilled its role in safeguarding truth in an international news environment often dominated by monopolistic media corporations.
In Latin America, the VNA’s diverse products, including those applying artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed across print, online, mobile devices, and social media, have contributed to countering fake news and biased commentary, particularly those aimed at distorting public perceptions of Vietnam and other countries in the region.
On bilateral cooperation, Reyes Rodríguez underlined that the VNA and Granma share a “fertile foundation” for joint journalism projects. He said the two sides have great potential for collaboration, particularly in regularly sharing content so that the VNA’s stories are featured on Granma’s platforms and vice versa, enabling the Cuban and Vietnamese people to gain first-hand insights into each other’s realities.
He added that such cooperation would extend the international outreach of both agencies and multiply their audiences. With the VNA’s technological advances, Granma could also gain access to resources and tools otherwise restricted by the US economic embargo and hostile policies. This would make an important contribution to Granma’s efforts to modernise its content production, expand readership, and achieve a qualitative leap, drawing on the VNA’s successful experience as a leading media agency of a sovereign socialist nation, Rodríguez affirmed./.
