On the morning of June 1, in Ha Noi, the National Press Award Council held the opening ceremony for the final judging round of the 20th National Press Award - 2025.
In his opening remarks, Le Quoc Minh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the PCC’s Commission for Communications, Education and Mass Mobilisation, President of the Viet Nam Journalists Association, and Chairman of the Final Judging Council emphasised that 2025 is a special year as the country celebrates many important events: the 80th anniversary of the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam; the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and the national reunification; the 100th anniversary of Viet Nam's Revolutionary Press Day.
The shortlisted works vividly and comprehensively reflected major political events, socio-economic development tasks, national defence, security, and foreign affairs, he said.
Many works clearly demonstrated the spirit of innovation, creativity, and strong digital transformation in Vietnamese journalism, he said, adding that there have been large-scale journalistic works, meticulously produced, systematic, and state-of-the-art to date.
The Preliminary Judging Panel highly appreciated the appearance of many multimedia works, applications of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, data journalism, and solutions journalism. This showed that Vietnamese journalism is not lagging behind the global technological trend.
He suggested that each member of the Council should prioritise professional responsibility, evaluating works objectively, transparently, and impartially, based on the core values of journalism such as accuracy, originality, content quality, and social impact; and honouring the spirit of innovation and creativity.
Reporting at the Final Round, Nguyen Duc Loi, Standing Vice Chairman of the Viet Nam Journalists Association and Standing Vice Chairman of the National Journalism Awards Council, stated that the 20th National Journalism Awards continued to receive positive responses from all levels of associations, members, reporters, editors, and collaborators nationwide.
The organising committee received participation from 34 provincial and city Journalists Associations; 20 affiliated associations and 33 branches, with a total of 1,752 entries. Out of 1,692 entries across 13 award categories, the Preliminary Judging Panel unanimously selected 177 works for the final round.
This result further affirmed the strong appeal of the National Journalism Awards and demonstrated the deep interest of associations at all levels, members, and journalists in this prestigious awards.
