The 2024 National Press Festival kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on March 15 as a significant preparation step towards the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Revolutionary Press Day.
Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen (second from the right) and delegates visit a booth displaying publications of the Vietnam News Agency at the event (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The 2024 National Press Festival kickedoff in Ho Chi Minh City on March 15 as a significant preparation step towards the celebrationof the 100th anniversary of the RevolutionaryPress Day.
In his opening speech, Nguyen Trong Nghia, head of the PartyCentral Committee's Commission for Information and Education, underlined the role of the revolutionary press of Vietnam as a bridge between the Party and people from all walks of life, and a means for the people to express their feelings and trust in the Party and the State.
He urged media agencies and the Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA)’s chapters nationwide to continue researching and creatively applying the Party's relevant guidelines, policies, and laws of the State effectively.
The official said that the continuous development of multi-platform and multimedia journalism and data journalism with digital tools such as artificial intelligence and blockchain technology, has created both opportunities and challenges for media agencies and journalists, so press agencies need to proactively seek solutions to improve competitiveness, protect copyrights, fight misinformation and fake news.
Delegates cut a ribbon to open the festival (Photo: VNA)
With the theme "Vietnamese Press -Pioneering, Innovation for the Revolutionary Cause of the Party and thePeople", the festival is a highlight of the Vietnamese press' professionalismand modernity.
The event this year is the biggest of its kind so far, bringing together representatives from three journalists’associations of cities and provinces and over 600 central and local pressagencies nationwide, with 112 booths displaying outstanding publicationscovering all aspects of economic, political, cultural, social, defence,security, and foreign affairs.
In the framework of the event, a nationalpress forum will be held for the first time, gathering over 60 speakers, including experiencedjournalists, representatives of leading media agencies in Vietnam, andreputable international communications experts. It will include 10sessions, debating on topics of interest to the press, such as enhancing theParty's leadership and orientation in journalistic activities, building a mediacultural environment, data journalism and superior content strategy, andeffective investment and application of technology in editorial offices.
The festival offers a chance for journalists to gain a betterunderstanding of the information demand and preferences of readers andaudiences, thus producing media products that closely reflect life, and widely popularisingpolicies of the Party and the State, said Le QuocMinh, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan (People) newspaper, head of the Party CentralCommittee's Commission for Information and Education and VJA chairman./.
President Tran Dai Quang lauded great contributions of the press to the country’s achievements in 2017 and the first months of 2018 while addressing the closing session of the National Press Festival in Hanoi on March 18.
Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of its Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia on March 17 asked press agencies and journalists to stay resolved to fulfill the target of building a revolutionary press circle of professionalism, culture and modernity.
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A hub for sharing best practices, the event aims to forge solutions for financial sustainability, public media contracts, audience engagement, content innovation, and newsroom restructuring. It is also a moment for Vietnam’s media to accelerate its progress and figure out what the “revolutionary press” means in a new era.
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Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen (second from the right) and delegates visit a booth displaying publications of the Vietnam News Agency at the event (Photo: VNA) 
Delegates cut a ribbon to open the festival (Photo: VNA) 
