For many years, Lao Dong Newspaper has always been assessed as one of the pioneering press agencies in the digital transformation process of Vietnamese journalism and has continuously maintained high positions in official rankings announced by state management agencies.
In 2024, Lao Dong Newspaper was ranked excellent and led the central press bloc in terms of digital transformation maturity, highlighted by the strong application of new technologies, especially artificial intelligence, in editorial organization, content production and multi-platform information distribution. Previously, in 2023, Lao Dong Newspaper was also in the group of press agencies achieving excellent levels nationwide, showing that the digital transformation process is not timely but is deployed methodically, continuously and in depth.
By 2025, the fact that Lao Dong Newspaper continues to be ranked as excellent in terms of the level of maturity of digital transformation of the press, once again affirms the position of the editorial office in the leading group of the Central press system. This result shows the consistent direction of Lao Dong Newspaper in innovating press activities, strengthening the application of technology to improve content quality, expanding the ability to reach readers and maintaining its role as one of the central newspapers with influence in the digital environment. Notably, Lao Dong Newspaper is one of 07 central press agencies maintaining a 3-year consecutive "Excellent" level in digital transformation of the press.
Stepping into 2026, under the leadership of the Editorial Board, the team of officials, reporters, and editors of Lao Dong Newspaper continues to digitally transform more deeply and optimally, bringing clear efficiency in professional work and editorial management.
With a technology mastery platform and editorial management system, in 2026, the newspaper's information technology team will continue to upgrade the newspaper's CSM system by integrating virtual assistant tools. This tool is equipped with many useful and intelligent features such as: Searching for keywords according to trends, analyzing topics, suggesting and building topic implementation scripts.... These features play an extremely important role in supporting editorial secretaries and Editorial Boards in directing and operating news articles, and also supporting reporters in finding topics and writing articles.
With detailed statistics, updated in real time, this tool has provided a lot of support for the editorial office and reporters in orienting content and implementing topics. With the support of AI, the topics and content deployed by the editorial office are now more focused, go in the right information flow and more importantly, meet the information needs that readers are interested in.
In addition to integrating applications directly on CMS, Lao Dong Newspaper continues to promote the application of tools and models of artificial intelligence into the specific professional activities of each official, reporter, and editor of the newspaper. AI application is no longer just a preliminary application but a deeper, more specialized and effective application.
Each reporter and editor is trained and guided to create AI assistants for themselves and for each specific job. Deep AI application has been implemented since the beginning of 2026 with many professional training sessions of the Journalists Association branch, thanks to which professional activities and editorial administration are carried out faster, smarter, and more efficiently.
In 2026, Lao Dong Newspaper will continue to expand the language definitions of Lao Dong Electronic Newspaper through artificial intelligence translation tools directly developed by the newspaper's information technology team. On April 16, 2026, at the working session of Member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Nguyen Anh Tuan with the Editorial Board, officials, reporters, and editors of Lao Dong Newspaper, Lao Dong Electronic Newspaper Chinese and Russian versions and the Vietnam Trade Union Electronic Information Portal were officially launched.
The two new languages added will help Lao Dong Newspaper expand its ability to reach readers, contributing to propagating policies and laws of the Party, State and Trade Union organization to readers around the world. Thus, as of April 2026, Lao Dong Electronic Newspaper has published in 8 languages, including: Vietnamese, English, Korean, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Chinese.
2026 is also the year Lao Dong Newspaper promotes production and development of content on social networks. With 3 key social networks, Facebook, YouTube and Tiktok, Lao Dong Newspaper focuses on producing and "packaging" separate types of content suitable for each platform.
With Facebook, the newspaper focuses on building fan pages according to many content areas and fields for users on this platform to easily follow.
With You tube, the Lao Dong Newspaper YouTube channel focuses on producing news bulletins and long, in-depth content to suit the trend of user information reception on this platform.
With Tiktok, You tube Shorts, the newspaper's social network management team focuses on deploying vertical content production, short videos, and fast tempo to attract user attention.
With a methodical and professional investment strategy, Lao Dong Newspaper determines that these social network channels will be an official information channel of the newspaper and a tool for Lao Dong Newspaper to optimize the spread of articles, increasing the ability to reach more readers, especially young readers.
Technology changes every day, AI is becoming smarter, social media is increasingly developing.... those will be opportunities and challenges not only for Lao Dong Newspaper but also for press agencies nationwide to face.
Therefore, not satisfied with the achieved results, in 2026, the team of officials, reporters, and editors of the newspaper will continue to learn and update new technologies so that Lao Dong Newspaper continues to maintain its position as one of the leading press agencies in the Vietnamese Revolutionary Press system, worthy of the 97-year heroic tradition of the newspaper.
