Seminar boosts Int’l media training cooperation

The seminar was the result of a joint effort by the Vietnam Academy of Journalism and Communication (AJC) and Middlesex University of the UK (MDX).

Participants highlighted the strong development of local media agencies, in both scope and scale, in recent years.

As of March 2012, Vietnam had 786 media agencies with 1,016 publications, including 67 TV and radio stations, 61 online newspapers, 191 social networks, and more than 1,000 e-portals.

Media has enriched people’s spiritual life and contributed greatly to socio-economic development, speakers at the event underscored.

However, they elucidated that the rapid development of media requires intensive training and development of professional skills and a deep understanding of journalistic ethics

Media training cooperation has become an inevitable trend in the current international integration process, they said, adding this will result media workers gaining more experience and contribute to the promotion of cultural exchange, as well as increase prestige of media training agencies.

Ass.Prof. Dr. Tuong Duy Kien, Head of the International Relation Department under the Ho Chi Minh National Academy for Politics and Public Administration, stressed the need to boost external relations and scientific research, which he said, is an orientation and strategic solution to increase the quality of media and communication.

Ass.Prof. Dr. Truong Ngoc Nam, AJC Director said Vietnam is paying due attention to promoting media cooperation.

A number of Vietnamese universities have been effectively cooperating with foreign partners in both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes which provide young people with numerous chances to study overseas, he added.

Prof. Michael Driscoll, Rector of Middlesex University, said his university will cooperate with AJC and other local media training agencies in capacity building for both lecturers and media workers in Vietnam.