Hanoi (VNA) – As many as 95 mediapieces have won the 11th National Press Awards 2016 and the award ceremony willbe held in Hanoi on June 21 - the Vietnam Revolutionary Journalism Day. 

The winning works include seven A prizes, 24 B prizes, 39 C prizes and25 consolation prizes, announced Standing Vice Chairman of the VietnamJournalism Association Ho Quang Loi at a press conference on June 14 in Hanoi. 

Of them, 48 works or 50 percent, belonged tolocal press agencies, said Loi, who is also Standing Vice Chairman of theCouncil of the 11th National Press Awards 2016.

He said the council has decided to raise theprize values from the 2016 season, with each A prize winner will receive 60million VND, while B and C prize awardees will be granted with 40 million VNDand 30 million VND each, respectively. 

Meanwhile, a consolation prize will be worth 10million VND and works going to the final round will get 3 million VND each. 

According to Loi, entries covered the country’simportant events during 2016, especially the 12th National Party Congress, aswell as socio-economic development, security and national defence, new-stylearea building and poverty reduction.
  

There was no big difference in quality betweenworks of central and local press agencies, he said, adding that many localpress agencies’ reportages, investigative reportages and narratives were appreciated. 

However, many entries lacked creativity andrenovation as well as failed to find out thorough solutions to their matters,he noted.

This year’s awards attracted 1,637 press worksfrom 214 agencies and individuals across the country. -VNA