Information on the thesis "The Vietnam Communist Party's Online Newspaper and its Role in External Information" by graduate student Pham Duc Thai, majoring in Journalism.1. Student's Full Name: Pham Duc Thai 2. Gender: Male 3. Date of Birth: December 26, 1969 4. Place of Birth: Ninh Giang Town, Ninh Giang District, Hai Duong Province 5. Decision No. 1355/2008/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH dated October 24, 2008, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 6. Changes during the training process: None 7. Thesis Title: The Electronic Newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam and its role in external information dissemination 8. Major: Journalism; Code: 60 32 01 9. Scientific Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Duy Thong (Vietnam Communist Party Online Newspaper) 10. Summary of the thesis results: Based on fundamental theoretical issues concerning external information work, the thesis assesses the achievements and limitations of external information work on the Vietnam Communist Party Online Newspaper (VCP) today, thereby proposing solutions to innovate and improve the quality of external information work on the VCP Online Newspaper in the new situation. Specifically, the research results of the thesis can be summarized as follows: - The thesis systematically presents the importance of external information work, the methods of conducting external information work, the views of the Party and the State on external information work; and the role of the press, especially online newspapers, in external information work. - In recent times, the VCP Online Newspaper has paid special attention to carrying out the task of external information and has achieved many noteworthy results. This is reflected in the richness and diversity of foreign affairs information on the Vietnamese-language pages as well as on the foreign-language pages of the newspaper, such as English, Chinese, and French. Foreign affairs information on the online newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in recent times has clearly demonstrated advantages such as a large amount of information, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, comprehensiveness, and adherence to political orientation... - Due to some objective and subjective reasons, foreign affairs information on the online newspaper of the CPV in recent times has also inevitably had some shortcomings and limitations that need to be overcome. Specifically, there is the situation of scattered information, not clearly reflecting the unique identity of the CPV online newspaper; the content of the struggle against erroneous viewpoints has not met the requirements set forth. Regarding the form of information, there are also some limitations, most noticeably the failure to fully exploit and utilize the strengths of online newspapers, specifically: not effectively promoting the high interactivity of online newspapers; not doing a good job of arranging and presenting related news articles; The full potential of internet-based broadcasting has not yet been realized… - To build upon the achievements and overcome the limitations in international communication, the Vietnam Communist Party's online newspaper needs to actively and comprehensively implement several groups of solutions. Specifically, these include solutions related to leadership and guidance; professional skills; organizational and personnel matters; and technical and technological infrastructure. Implementing these solutions requires not only the efforts and creativity of the entire team of staff, reporters, editors, technicians, and employees of the newspaper, but also the active support of the governing body and relevant functional agencies. 11. Practical Applications: Along with certain contributions to research on online newspapers and external information work in general, the survey results, assessment of the current situation, and proposed solutions to improve the quality of external information on the Vietnam Communist Party's online newspaper contribute to advising the Editorial Board of the Vietnam Communist Party's online newspaper and its governing body (Central Propaganda Department) on the newspaper's development; and can also be used as a reference document for colleagues in press agencies, students, and those working in foreign affairs, journalism, and external information work. 12. Future Research Directions: External information on current online newspapers – Current situation, trends, and solutions. 13. Published works related to the thesis: None
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: Pham Duc Thai 2. Sex: Male 3. Date of birth: December 26th 1969 4. Place of birth: Hai Duong 5. Admission decision number: 1355/2008/QD -XHNV-KH&SĐH; Dated October 24, 2008 6. Changes in academic process: None 7. Official thesis title: Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper with the task of external information 8. Major: Journalism Studies 9. Code: 60 32 01 10. Supervisors: Associate Professor PhD Vu Duy Thong – Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper. 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: Based on the basic theoretical issues on the external information, the thesis assesses the achievements and limitations of external information in the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper (CPV Online Newspaper) at present. It also offers innovative solutions which could be put in place to improve the quality of external information in the CPV Online Newspaper in the future. Specifically, the results of the thesis can be summarized as follows: - The thesis presents the importance of external information work, the methods needed to continue to provide external information, the Party's and State's views on the external information work and the role of media, especially the online newspapers' role in the external information work. - The CPV Online Newspaper has attached special importance to external information tasks and has achieved remarkable results. It has continuously demonstrated the richness and diversity of external information, both in Vietnamese, and in the foreign languages of English, Chinese and French. The external information on CPV Online Newspaper has demonstrated the advantages of such work, such as a large amount of information, accuracy, timeliness, comprehensiveness and correct political orientation. - Due to a range of reasons, over the past years, disadvantages and limitations in the external information provided on CPV Online Newspaper could not be avoided. These should undoubtedly be examined and overcame. specifically, the status of information is scattered and does not clearly reflect the identity of the CPV Online Newspapers; content tends to fight against the wrong opinion, which fails to meet the set requirements. On form, information also has some limitations. These include the absence of exploitation and the thorough utilization of the strengths of newspapers such as: not having promoting the best interactive newspaper; failure to organize, presenting all relevant information well; and not promoting the strength radio on Internet radically. - To promote the newspaper's achievements and overcome the limitations of external information, CPV Online Newspaper should carry out active and comprehensive measure groups. specific, measure groups of leadership and guiding; solutions on professional competence and staff organization; and solutions on technology infrastructure. The achievement of these solutions requires not only the efforts and creativity of staff, reporters, editors, technicians and employees of the newspaper, but also active advocacy from the organism in charge and the relevant agencies. 12. Practical applicability, if any: In addition to the given contributions in the studying of newspapers and the external information work in general, the results on survey, the assessment of the situation and the measures to improve the quality of external information on CPV Online Newspaper proposed in the thesis contribute to advise the Editorial Department of CPV Online Newspaper and the agency in charge (the Party Central Committee Commission of Popularization and Education) in formulating and developing the newspaper. The research can also be used as a reference for colleagues from the press agencies, students and those working in foreign affairs, the media and external information fields. 13. Further research directions, if any: External information on the newspapers today - Situations, trends and solutions. 14. Thesis-related publications: None
