Deputy General Director of Vietnam News Agency Le Quoc Minh at the event (Photo: VNA) Sofia (VNA) - The sixthNews Agencies World Congress (NAWC) convened its final discussion sessionin the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia on June 14.
During the two-day four sessions,participants pointed out global-level trends, opportunities and challenges to newsagencies and looked into ways to diversify income sources, build effectiveownership models and process to fight fake news, and use artificialintelligence.
In an interview granted toBulgarian News Agency, Deputy General Director of Vietnam News Agency Le QuocMinh said the strong development of social media is pulling the press into aspeed race that, in some cases, neglects the core requirements. In orderto diversify income, he suggested producing contents with paid subscription,promoting ads or sponsored contents, or seeking other solutions such ase-commerce, data service and information technology.
The sixth NAWC attracted over 200 delegates from more than100 press outlets, universities, research institutes and major media outletsfrom about 100 countries and territories globally.
The four sessions featured news agencies’ ownership model,new income sources, fake news and artificial intelligence.
The first NAWC was initiated by Russia’s TASS news agency inMoscow in September 2004, followed by the second in Spain in 2007, the third inArgentine in 2010, the fourth Arab Saudi in 2013, and the fifth in Azerbaijanin 2016.-VNA
During the two-day four sessions,participants pointed out global-level trends, opportunities and challenges to newsagencies and looked into ways to diversify income sources, build effectiveownership models and process to fight fake news, and use artificialintelligence.
In an interview granted toBulgarian News Agency, Deputy General Director of Vietnam News Agency Le QuocMinh said the strong development of social media is pulling the press into aspeed race that, in some cases, neglects the core requirements. In orderto diversify income, he suggested producing contents with paid subscription,promoting ads or sponsored contents, or seeking other solutions such ase-commerce, data service and information technology.
The sixth NAWC attracted over 200 delegates from more than100 press outlets, universities, research institutes and major media outletsfrom about 100 countries and territories globally.
The four sessions featured news agencies’ ownership model,new income sources, fake news and artificial intelligence.
The first NAWC was initiated by Russia’s TASS news agency inMoscow in September 2004, followed by the second in Spain in 2007, the third inArgentine in 2010, the fourth Arab Saudi in 2013, and the fifth in Azerbaijanin 2016.-VNA
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