Carefully discuss and impartially select outstanding works

Attending the opening ceremony were comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association , Chairman of the National Press Awards Council, Chairman of the Final Jury of the 17th National Press Awards - 2022; comrade Nguyen Duc Loi, Permanent Vice President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Chairman of the Preliminary Jury of the National Press Awards; Permanent Vice President of the Final Jury, members of the Final Jury... along with press agencies, journalists, and reporters attending to report.

The 17th National Press Awards final round carefully discussed and selected outstanding works, image 1 — Final round of the 17th National Press Awards - 2022.

The National Press Award is a major event that attracts special attention from the press community nationwide. It is the most prestigious award for press works, honoring authors and groups of authors with the best works every year. The National Press Award has gone through 16 seasons accompanying the press life, becoming a truly beneficial professional activity, spreading widely in all levels of the Association, in the press community and increasingly affirming its reputation as the most prestigious professional award for journalists nationwide.

Timely reflection of many prominent and influential topics

Speaking at the opening of the final round, comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association, Chairman of the Final Round Council, said: This year is the 17th year the Award has been held, with many new members in both the Preliminary Round Council and the Final Round Council. The organization of the Award was carried out in a systematic and methodical manner, attracting the active and enthusiastic participation of all levels of the Association, press agencies, journalist members and collaborators nationwide.

According to the report of the Preliminary Council, the number of entries to this year's Award is still high. The Council's support committees have made efforts to carry out their work on schedule, ensuring the requirements of the award organization process. The 72 members of the Preliminary Council, divided into 11 sub-committees, worked with professionalism and a high sense of responsibility, strictly implementing the Charter, Guidelines and Award Judging Regulations, conducting appraisals, judging and submitting to the Final Council a list of 157 entries in 11 categories, selected from 1,894 entries.

The works submitted to the Award closely followed major topics from politics , economics, culture, society, security, defense and aspects of life in 2022. The press promptly and clearly reflected major events and important issues of the country with prominent topics that had great influence and were of public interest.

The 17th National Press Awards final round carefully discussed and selected outstanding works, photo 2 — Comrade Le Quoc Minh, member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association delivered the opening speech of the Final Round.

In 2022, the world situation will continue to have rapid, complex, unpredictable and difficult-to-foresee fluctuations with increasing risk factors, having a major impact on a global scale. In the country, 2022 is an important year to create a foundation for implementing the goals of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and resolutions of Party Congresses at all levels.

Comrade Le Quoc Minh said that in that context, closely following the direction and leadership of the Party and the State, and the practical situation of the country, the press work has achieved many important and outstanding results. The press has propagated strongly, in depth, and at the same time very diversely and richly in the form of expression about the directions and administration of the National Assembly in legislative work, supervision, and law enforcement; of the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, branches, and localities in the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic.

Speed up the pace of socio-economic recovery and development; on Party building, preventing and combating corruption, waste, and negativity; on Party inspection, supervision, and discipline; on propaganda on protecting the Party's ideological foundation, refuting the wrong views of hostile forces; and on effective foreign propaganda information lines.

Objectively evaluate and discover good works and talented writers

Many press agencies have innovated and approached modern journalism technology to bring information to different infrastructures and media platforms to increase accessibility for people; gradually implementing digital transformation of journalism. Thanks to that, in addition to major central press agencies, some local newspapers have also changed the way they choose topics and themes, and implemented them in multimedia forms, which have been highly appreciated by the Preliminary Council for their quality.

The 17th National Press Awards final round carefully discussed and selected outstanding works, photo 3 — It is both an honor and a heavy responsibility of the Final Jury to ensure objectivity, impartiality, and wisdom in selecting the best works.

Comrade Le Quoc Minh emphasized: It is the honor and also the heavy responsibility of the Final Jury to ensure objectivity, impartiality, and clarity, selecting the best works among the finalists, exemplary in both content and form of expression.

The works address truly important issues of the country, ensuring political-ideological values, orientation, honesty, and having a positive and strong social impact, worthy of being awarded the 17th National Press Award - 2022 on the occasion of the 98th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day on June 21, towards the milestone of 100 years of Vietnam Revolutionary Press in 2025.

"The members of the Final Jury are experienced, enthusiastic and highly prestigious journalists. Many of them have participated in the final judging of many journalism awards in recent years, are steadfast in ideology, proficient in their profession, and objective in evaluating and discovering good works and talented writers. The presence of all of them is an important guarantee for the success of the Award," said comrade Le Quoc Minh.

Comrade Le Quoc Minh requested the members of the Final Jury, with the highest sense of responsibility, to actively and thoroughly discuss and accurately and impartially evaluate the works entering the final round, ensuring persuasion before the public and colleagues nationwide.

The 17th National Press Awards final round carefully discussed and selected outstanding works, photo 4 — The final jury of the 17th National Press Awards 2022 discussed and judged the works.

At the meeting, the National Press Awards Final Jury approved the preliminary results report; the Jury discussed and gave opinions on the works, the judging process and related issues; the delegates also discussed and approved the voting method of the Final Jury; through the vote counting committee, conducted voting... The Jury discussed and considered the official awards and consolation awards.

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