At the signing ceremony (Source: VNA) Vinh Phuc (VNA) - An agreement on communication cooperation in the 2019-2020 period was signed between the People’s Committee of Vinh Phuc province and the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on August 8. The cooperation agreements aims to comprehensively promote prominent achievements of Vinh Phuc, contributing to developing the locality into one of industry, services and tourism centre in the north and the country, and supporting local leaders’ management. The two sides will actively coordinate to verify, clarify, rectify or refute false information about activities in the province, contributing to the locality’s stability and development. Information related to the locality will be posted in Vietnamese, English, French, Spanish and Chinese by the VNA at the portal https://vnanet.vn, and information products of the VNA include: Tin Tuc newspaper, Vietnam News, the website https://www.vietnamplus.vn, Le Courrier du Vietnam, VNA … [Read more...] about News agency, Vinh Phuc sign communication cooperation agreement
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News Agencies World Congress opens in Bulgaria
Deputy General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Le Quoc Minh has participated in activities within the framework of the congress.(Photo: VNA) Sofia (VNA) – The sixth News Agencies World Congress (NAWC) opened in the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia on June 13, bringing together more than 200 delegates from nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. Deputy General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Le Quoc Minh has participated in activities within the framework of the congress. Addressing the opening ceremony, Director General of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) Maxim Minchev said news journalism is one of the last bastions of real and double-checked news. He underlined the need for news agencies worldwide to accumulate synergy as the situation is changing very quickly. Discussions during the forum will focus on fake news, artificial intelligence, the new models of ownership of news agencies and the new sources of information, he said. … [Read more...] about News Agencies World Congress opens in Bulgaria
VNA’s AI app wins OANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality
The closing session of the 44th Executive Board Meeting of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA)(Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and Xinhua News Agency (China) have shared the first prize of the OANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality. The award was announced by Secretary General Vulgar Seidov of the Organisation of Asia Pacific News Agencies (OANA) at the closing ceremony of the 44th OANA Executive Board Meeting in Hanoi on April 19. Both winning 28 points voted by members of the OANA Executive Board, the VNA with Chatbot app of its e-newspaper VietnamPlus and Xinhua with its AI Media Brain project secured the first prize. OANA President Aslan Aslanov said the award aims to encourage news agencies to pay more attention to and invest more in innovating professional activities. Hosted by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), the meeting focused on three main contents, including strategies of news agencies in response to changes in … [Read more...] about VNA’s AI app wins OANA Award for Excellence in News Agency Quality
OANA 44: Fighting fake news an important task for news agencies
WAM Executive Director Mohamed Alrayssi (L) in an interview (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Given the context of the widespread development of fake news causing negative effects on society, members of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) have underlined the importance of taking drastic measures to deal with the issue. Mohamed Alrayssi, Executive Director of the Emirates News Agency (WAM), advised news agencies to increase speed and accuracy in order to better inform the public, thus helping boost their trust in the news sources. He shared that WAM conducts annual surveys to see how much trust readers hold in it, as well as tries to publish news faster and answer all questions that audiences are looking for in the news so as to build up the agency’s relationship with the public. Nur Cahya Aryani, head of the International News Division under Indonesia’s ANTARA news agency, said that combating fake news is one of the most important tasks of a … [Read more...] about OANA 44: Fighting fake news an important task for news agencies
OANA news agencies optimise modern technology in information supply
Representatives of OANA member agencies posed for a group photo at the 16th OANA General Assembly in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November 2016, which discussed measures to address challenges facing modern media. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Members of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) have shared their experience, particularly the use of up-to-date technology, in addressing challenges facing modern press, on the occasion of the 44th OANA Executive Board Meeting in Hanoi from April 18-20. According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) of Iran, in response to the latest trends among the audience and taking technological developments into consideration, IRNA has increased its active engagement in the web and social networks through its multimedia services. From April 2018 to March 2019, in a period of 11 months, the agency has published 125,208 photo frames, including both photo reports and images that are attached to news articles. IRNA published 2,881 videos … [Read more...] about OANA news agencies optimise modern technology in information supply