Update: December, 28/2020 - 17:47 | Vietnam News Agency s Deputy General Director Lê Quốc Minh received the award for VNA s Factcheckvn, for social impact at TikTok Awards Vietnam 2020 Sunday night. VNA/VNS Photo Tiến Lực HCM CITY Factcheckvn, a fact-checking channel launched by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on TikTok, was honoured as an information channel with social impact at the TikTok Awards Vietnam 2020 ceremony held in HCM City on Sunday. TikTok Awards Vietnam honour outstanding creators, trends and campaigns that have contributed to spreading positive messages to the community. The TikTok account Factcheckvn forms part of the VNA’s fake news project that also includes an anti-fake news song in 15 languages and a training campaign for students.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on media globally, with increased censorship and harassment of journalists in many countries, but also a renewed awareness of the importance of reliable reporting, media experts say.
News outlets forced out of business, attacks and threats against journalists, and an “avalanche” of disinformation were cited as some of the main challenges in 2020 for the news industry, during a World Press Freedom Conference panel earlier this month.
“Now more than ever we need news we can trust,” Jesper Højberg, executive director of the Denmark-based nonprofit International Media Support (IMS), said in a video aired as part of the panel. But, Højberg said, the need for reliable information has “reawakened” the public to the “importance of critical, reliable information.”
The Hindu group bags four WAN IFRA awards
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The Hindu #KeepTheHabit campaign won a gold and silver in Best Native Advertising/ Branded Content Campaign and Best in Audience Engagement, respectively
The Hindu Group won two golds and two silvers at WAN IFRA’s South Asian Digital Media Awards. The awards are presented in recognition of outstanding work done by news publishers in digital media.
The Hindu #KeepTheHabit campaign won a gold and silver in Best Native Advertising/ Branded Content Campaign and Best in Audience Engagement, respectively.
Sportstar’s website (sportstar.thehindu.com) won a gold in Best in Lifestyle, Sports, Entertainment Website or Mobile Services and
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Star’s head of marketing honoured as Asia’s top outstanding youth marketer
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Md Tajdin Hassan, Head of Marketing at The Daily Star, received the YWN Marketing Excellence Award 2020 (by Asia Marketing Federation) under Asia s top outstanding youth marketer of the year category.
Asia Marketing Federation (AMF) is the foremost governing body of marketing in the region whose member countries include Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. This award reflects the excellence of marketers in the admirable qualities of versatility, innovativeness, and infallible growth.