3 key factors that contribute to the quality of the Association's activities

The three factors that journalist Nguyen Anh Tu mentioned are: First, the full-time Association officials must dare to commit and uphold their responsibility to the Association; Second, the members must actively support and participate in the Association's work; Third, the attention of local leaders, leaders of the Vietnam Journalists Association and ministries, departments and branches at the Central level is very necessary...

Association workers have to spend a lot of time "jumping into work"

Analyzing further the 3 factors that make up the quality of the Association's activities, journalist Nguyen Anh Tu shared that first of all, the perspective of full-time Association staff is an extremely important factor, because in the current context, introducing personnel to participate in Association work is very difficult, many people are afraid to participate in full-time Association work because the income is not attractive. If they are still of working age, in addition to the monthly salary, Association staff do not have other remuneration, and for those who have retired but still participate in full-time Association work, they receive a small amount of support from the local Journalists Association organization, so the choice to participate in Association work for many people is very difficult. In addition, full-time Association staff are required to have outstanding qualities such as: knowing how to gather members, having leadership and direction methods and skills for the Association's movement, especially daring to commit and upholding responsibility for Association work activities.

Hai Phong Journalists Association was honored to receive a Certificate of Merit from the Chairman of Hai Phong City People's Committee for its achievements in Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style on May 11, 2023.

“To have a movement, Association workers must spend a lot of time “jumping into work”, must dare to sacrifice many personal and family jobs, and even have to use personal relationships to mobilize resources to serve the Association’s work. In the spring and fall, the local Journalists Association participates in many local cultural, sports and social activities and movements, participates in press competitions launched by the Central and local governments, organizes professional training courses, seminars, and workshops, combines writing and social and charity activities. In addition, they also have to spend a lot of time to handle documents, while the arrangement of labor at the local Journalists Association is very limited. Association workers must clearly identify this, dare to burn themselves out, then they can confidently participate in the Association’s work…” – the Standing Vice President of the Hai Phong City Journalists Association emphasized.

With the current operation of the Hai Phong City Journalists Association, there are 02 positions receiving salary from the budget, while the Hai Phong City Journalists Association has up to 400 members working at the city's radio and newspaper agencies, not to mention nearly 100 members who are reporters of 48 central and provincial press agencies with representative offices and resident reporters in Hai Phong. "The Hai Phong City Journalists Association is a socio-political organization, every day we receive many documents from the city and the Central Government, so to complete the task we must also put forth our utmost efforts" - Mr. Tu said.

In this issue, journalist Anh Tu also frankly and specifically shared the work at the Hai Phong City Journalists Association. With a thin staff of the Association, on the one hand, the Association's leadership must promote solidarity and unity in the Standing Committee, the Standing Committee, the Executive Committee and the staff of the Association's Office, strictly comply with the Regulations on the operation of the Executive Committee; the Working Regulations of the Association's office, and well perform the assigned tasks for each staff position. Whenever there is urgent and important work, the Association's Standing Committee directly discusses, then consults the Executive Committee members to issue documents, or deploy the work to ensure democracy and high unity throughout the Association... On the other hand, full-time Association staff need to "burn themselves out" before the assigned work, not afraid of difficulties, hardships, and know how to flexibly use relationships to organize playgrounds for members...

Responsibility from members and attention from leaders

Also from many years of practical experience, journalist Anh Tu believes that the second factor to improve the quality of the Association's activities is that members need to be self-aware, raise their responsibility, and enthusiastically support the movements and work of the Journalists Association. Mr. Tu also worries that this is an important factor, but not easy to implement, because most journalist members are reporters of press agencies, they themselves must prioritize spending more time on professional work, then spend time on the Association's activities. And of course, the challenge is that if members of press agencies do not support, the local Journalists Association will find it difficult to complete the task! When implementing press competitions, cultural - social - sports movements without the participation of the force, it is considered a failure. Meanwhile, the income and life of members and reporters depend on the payment of press agencies. If members are not interested in the Association's activities and do not clearly see the role of the Association, then mobilizing members to participate in the Association's movements will be extremely difficult.

On May 27, 2023, the Hai Phong City Journalists Association organized a photojournalism camp on traffic and tourism projects in Hai Phong city.

In addition, the Standing Vice President of the Hai Phong Journalists Association also said that, with the above two factors, there still needs to be a third factor - the attention of local leaders, the Vietnam Journalists Association as well as central agencies. He cited that in the locality, in the past time, the leaders of Hai Phong City have had very specific attention to the Hai Phong Journalists Association. The city has invited the Association's leaders to attend events such as: City Party Congress; Regular monthly meetings organized by the City People's Committee; City People's Council meetings; Participation in monthly reporters' conferences organized by the City Party Committee's Propaganda Department... Through the above events, the Association's leaders have accurate information on the city's political, economic and social situation to effectively perform the function of press supervision.

In addition, the city trusts the staff of the Journalists Association, assigning them to draft many documents related to press activities, Association work and other important areas related to promoting the city's image. Participate in handling sensitive issues related to the press and public opinion...

In particular, in the past 2 years, the City People's Committee has paid attention to allocating funds for the Hai Phong City Journalists Association to renovate and upgrade the Association's headquarters, ensuring working conditions and organizing events, in order to help build the Hai Phong City Journalists Association into a common home for journalist members working in the Port City. This is a meaningful and very important source of encouragement for the Hai Phong City Journalists Association to organize its activities well.

Along with the attention of the city leaders, the Hai Phong Journalists Association also received great and regular attention from the Vietnam Journalists Association in directing and leading the local Journalists Association to complete its assigned political tasks, as well as fully participating in the activities of the Central Association such as: receiving and working with the high-ranking delegation of the Lao Journalists Association, participating in the Press Cup Football Tournament in Quang Ninh, and the Table Tennis Tournament in Hanoi organized by the Vietnam Journalists Association.

Sharing his wishes from the perspective of a person with many years of experience in the Association, journalist Anh Tu hopes that the Vietnam Journalists Association will pay attention and request the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Finance to determine the number of Association officials receiving salaries from the budget. For example, if a provincial or municipal Journalists Association has 100 members, how many positions will be allocated? If a Journalists Association has 200 members, how many positions will be allocated?

It is known that up to now, the Ministry of Home Affairs has not yet made any new announcement on the arrangement of staff for local Journalists Associations. Secondly, to improve the quality of the Association's activities, he requested the leaders of press agencies to pay more attention and create conditions for journalist members to participate in activities organized by the Association such as: professional training, seminars, workshops as well as cultural, sports, social and charity activities... Thirdly, to encourage Journalists Associations of provinces and cities, he requested the Vietnam Journalists Association to pay attention to increasing the number of units awarded in annual emulation clusters...

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