The Institute of Journalism and Communication Training (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi) and Sputnik International News Agency - Russia organized an online lecture on the topic: "Journalism amid the COVID-19 pandemic: topics, mistakes, fake news, fact checking".
The lecture aims to clarify the requirements of a successful news report and discuss the qualities a reporter or journalist needs to possess when writing news reports. The issues discussed include:
- The role of journalism in the fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic.
- The activities of the press in Russia, Vietnam, and around the world during the pandemic, linked to themes and journalistic practices.
- The issue of fake news and the ability to verify information.
- The experiences of Sputnik and international and Vietnamese journalists in this area.
The lecture was attended by speaker Oleg Dmitriev (Professor at the National Academy of Communication, Senior Advisor to Sputnik), journalist Tran Thu Ha - VTV4 Foreign Affairs Television Department, and Mr. Vu Manh Cuong - Spokesperson of the Ministry of Health.
ButTime2:00 PM, April 7, 2021.
ButLocationRoom 304, Building E
Oleg Dmitriev worked for numerous media outlets in the United States and was a correspondent for CNN's World Report from 1992 to 2001. He was the head of journalist training at RT, the editor-in-chief of the news service, and later the global broadcast director of Voice of Russia in English (now Sputnik). He is the author of numerous research papers and monographs on new media.
SputnikPro is a project of the international news and radio agency Sputnik for journalists, journalism students, press officers, and other media professionals aimed at sharing experiences with foreign colleagues, as well as developing media and journalistic networking.
During the project's implementation, representatives from more than 80 countries participated. SputnikPro workshops were held in Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Greece, Georgia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Estonia, and South Ossetia. |
