Professionalism, humanity, modernity needed for the press in 2024: Party official
Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of its Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia on December 21 requested the press to promote gained achievements and well address challenges to meet requirements of professionalism, humanity, and modernity.
Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of its Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head ofits Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia on December 21requested the press to promote gained achievements and well address challengesto meet requirements of professionalism, humanity, and modernity.
Speaking at the national press conferenceto review work in 2023 and put forward tasks for the following year, Nghiaacknowledged results and achievements of press agencies andjournalists nationwide this year.
He requested them to focus on speeding up theimprovement of legal institutions on the press, including amending and supplementingthe 2016 Press Law and completing a master plan on national press development andmanagement to 2025 so as to create conditions for the press to develop healthily andin the right direction.
It is necessary to strengthen discipline incomplying with in formation directions and orientations, and in correcting andhandling violations of laws and professional ethics.
In 2024, priority should be given tothoroughly handling any violations by press agencies and journalists to createpositive changes worthy of public trust, Nghia stressed.
In the context of the strong development ofscience and technology, new media platforms, and social media, the press, morethan ever, must create a positive, mainstream, and widely spreading informationflow leading and orienting public opinion about good things in society, thusmaking an important contribution to building an advanced Vietnamese culturerich in national identity, and building systems of national values, culturalvalues and family values and standards of Vietnamese people in a new era, headded.
Addressing the event, Deputy Prime MinisterTran Luu Quang said that in 2023, the press has done much better than last yearin carrying out political tasks.
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At the conference, participants discussedissues of common concern in journalism work as well as current journalism andmedia situations; while identifying trends and challenges, as well asfundamental and comprehensive tasks and solutions for 2024 and in the comingperiod.
Collectives with outstanding achievements in the press work in 2023 receive certificates of merit of the Commission for Information and Education (Photo: VNA)
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Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of its Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia (Photo: VNA) 
Collectives with outstanding achievements in the press work in 2023 receive certificates of merit of the Commission for Information and Education (Photo: VNA) 
