Seventy-six press works honoured with Great National Unity Award
As many as 76 press works were honoured with the 13th Press Award for the Cause of Great National Unity at an award ceremony held in Hanoi on November 16.
Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Education and Communications, Vo Van Thuong (far right) and President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, Tran Thanh Man (far left) present the special prize to the group of authors at the 13th Press Award for the Cause of Great National Unity, Hanoi, November 16, 2018. (Photo: daidoanket.vn)
The event was held in celebration of the 88th anniversary of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Traditional Day (November 18).
According to the organisers, following the tradition of previous events, the 13th Press Award received a warm response from writers across the country, even from border and remote localities. Since its launch in June 19 last year, more than 1,500 valid entries from five categories of printed and e-newspapers, radio, television, and press photos by nearly 200 press agencies, have been sent to the jury.
The authors are also from diverse backgrounds, including professional journalists working both in and outside the country, retired correspondents, and collaborators of news agencies who are intellectuals, scientists, veterans, teachers, students, adherents and ethnic groups across Vietnam.
The organisers decided to grant the 13th Press Award for the Cause of Great National Unity to 76 works, featuring one special prize, along with three A, 13 B, 27 C and 32 consolation prizes.
Accordingly, the co-special prize was given to VTC16 television channel and Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) with a special report on ethnic minorities with very limited populations. The three A prizes belonged to author Hoang Lan from Phu Nu Thu Do (Capital’s Women) Newspaper, a group of authors from the Vietnam Television and another group from VOV.
The works focused on reflecting the important events of the country, as well as on promoting the role of prestigious people in ethnic groups; the role of adherents in the cause of national unity; typical models in the “Following the moral example of President Ho Chi Minh” movement; the fight against corruption; the advanced examples in economic development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction; and the typical models in modern rural construction, among other.
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, Tran Thanh Man, speaks at the award ceremony. (Photo: daidoanket.vn)
Speaking at the event, VFF President Tran Thanh Man suggested that news agencies be more active in promoting the prevention and fight against corruption and wastefulness in the public, while fighting against distortion and malicious information from hostile forces to protect the people and the Party's views and policies for the cause of Doi Moi (renewal) and national interests.
The media was also urged to timely detect and praise new and advanced elements in patriotic emulation movements, as well as continuing to bring into play their role in social supervision and criticism and reflecting the aspirations of the people to the Party and State./.
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