[Photo] President Ho Chi Minh – founder of Vietnam’s revolutionary press

President Ho Chi Minh meets with reporters of central news agencies at home and abroad in Hanoi (May, 1968)

Thanh Nien (Youth) newspaper was first published on June 21, 1925. President Ho Chi Minh was not only the publisher of the weekly but the man who did all the work: reporting, editing, laying out the pages and distributing the publication

After 30 years being abroad, on April 1, 1941, President Ho Chi Minh returned home and founded the Vietnam Doc Lap (Independent Vietnam) newspaper which was first published on August 1, 1941 to call for the whole people to unite for national salvation

President Ho Chi Minh and comrades Truong Chinh, Le Duc Tho and Vo Nguyen Giap read a newspaper at Thai Nguyen safe revolutionary base in 1947

On October 15, 1949, the Su That (Truth) newspaper published article “Mas Mobilisation” by President Ho Chi Minh, pen name X.Y.Z, providing information about the content and methods of mass mobilization

Uncle Ho was not only a journalist but also a reader of domestic and world’s newspapers. He trained himself a regular and serious newspaper reading style

During his process of revolutionary activities and in his capacity as the country’s top leader, Uncle Ho wrote thousands of articles in many genres and used different pen names. In the photo: President Ho Chi Minh works in Viet Bac safe revolutionary base during the resistance war against the French

Uncle Ho pays a Tet visit to Nhan Dan (People) Daily’s staff and journalists in 1957

President Ho Chi Minh and journalists in 1960

President Ho Chi Minh meets delegates to the third Vietnam Journalists’ Association Congress in March 1963

President Ho Chi Minh instructs reporter Tue Oanh of the Vietnam News Agency on how to report news relating to the third National Assembly Election (April 26, 1964)

President Ho Chi Minh, Vice President Ton Duc Thang and comrade Truong Chinh in a group photo with reporters at the third National Party Congress (1960)

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