June 16, 2020 | 22:00 (GMT+7)
National Press Awards 2019 to be held
PANO – The 14th Press Awards 2019 will be held in Hanoi on June 21 to honor outstanding press products, announced the jury council in Hanoi on June 15.
The 140 press products have been selected from 1,602 entries in 11 categories for the finale. Nine pieces of them claimed the A prize. The organizing board also presented 21 B prizes, 41 C prizes and 32 prizes to other outstanding press products.
This year’s edition received press products from 110 journalists and 230 contributors from 59 out of 63 provincial journalists’ associations.
The entries reflect the country’s political events in 2019, the implementation of the Resolution of the 12th National Party Congress and Resolution No.04 on building and strengthening Party organizations, the fight against corruption and wastefulness as well as the fight against COVID-19, the Government's policies on socio-economic development, and foreign affairs activities in the last year.
However, the juries pointed out a number of limitations in entries to this year’s award, such as the lack of creativity and low quality of editorials, features and reportages. Another limitation is that there are few good articles, photographs and radio and TV programs reflecting cultural identities and people’s daily life.
A ceremony to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on a strategic cooperation between the Vietnam Press Museum and two media training institutions of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Academy of Journalism and Communications was also held during the event.
The deal aims to promote training and journalism activities, and promote coordination between the two sides in implementing teaching and researching cooperation programs.
Translated by Song Anh