Vietnam News Agency's Deputy General Director Đoàn Thị Tuyết Nhung (left) and TASS Director General Andrey Kondrashov. — VNA/VNS Photo

MOSCOW — A delegation of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) led by Deputy General Director Đoàn Thị Tuyết Nhung has attended a ceremony marking the 120th founding anniversary of the Russian News Agency TASS and the BRICS Media Summit in Moscow.

The celebration of the 120th founding anniversary of TASS (September 1, 1904 - 2024) took place on September 14, attracting a large number of representatives from news agencies and media outlets of Russia and other countries.

On this occasion, Nhung had a meeting with TASS Director General Andrey Kondrashov to extend greetings and deliver a congratulatory letter from VNA General Director Vũ Việt Trang.

In her letter, Trang lauded the unceasing development of TASS, which has excellently fulfilled its role as the official organ of the former Soviet Union and today’s Russia. She also stated that the all-round and fruitful cooperation between the VNA and TASS for the last nearly seven decades has contributed to the comprehensive strategic partnership between Việt Nam and Russia.

Talking to Kondrashov, Nhung appreciated TASS’s precious, substantive, and effective assistance for the VNA, including its bureau in Moscow, since they set up cooperative ties.

The VNA is working to become a key multimedia agency, and during that process, it wishes to learn from experiences of international media partners, including TASS, she noted, suggesting the two sides enhance cooperation and share experiences in journalism activities in the digital era, especially the application of modern technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to the production of news and the diversification of news distribution channels, along with experiences in coping with fake news.

She also conveyed the VNA General Director’s invitation to Kondrashov to visit the VNA in the near future.

Describing the VNA as a big friend of TASS, Kondrashov affirmed the readiness to share his agency’s experiences through cooperation activities between the two sides.

On September 14 - 15, the VNA delegation also participated in the BRICS Media Summit in Moscow.

The event, drawing representatives of 62 leading media agencies from 45 countries, discussed measures for boosting dialogue among media agencies of the BRIC Plus countries and fostering the common values of BRICS in the field of communications in the digital era, thus helping develop this organisation as a mechanism for promoting the idea of a multipolar world.

Granting an interview to TASS on this occasion, the VNA Deputy General Director stressed that the summit is a chance to strengthen connections in communications, share experience among BRICS and non-BRICS news agencies, and work out measures for improving the role of news agencies in the digital era, fueling the development of the press amid the fierce competition with social media, coordinating in fighting fake news, and effectively applying new technologies and AI to journalism and communication activities.

Attending the summit, the VNA hopes to stay updated with new trends of the global media while reinforcing collaboration with traditional partners and expanding relations with new ones. It also wishes to learn from other news and media agencies’ experiences in producing multimedia news, improving competitiveness on digital platforms, combating fake news, and expanding news distribution channels to further access the public in Việt Nam and the world, thereby contributing to mutual understanding and cooperation with countries in and outside BRICS, the official added. — VNS