Publication: From VietNet to VietNamNet: Ten Years of Electronic Media in Vietnam
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2008
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Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
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Tuấn, Nguyễn Anh. "From VietNet to VietNamNet: Ten Years of Electronic Media in Vietnam." Shorenstein Center Discussion Paper Series 2008.D-43, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2008.
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VietNamNet is Vietnam’s most popular online media outlet. Everyday, four million viewers visit the site, generating 100 million page views. VietNamNet’s readership is diverse, including Vietnam’s political and intellectual elites as well as students, workers, farmers, and especially the emerging middle class. VietNamNet is also one of the country’s most respected news publications. Although private news outlets are not yet legal—all newspapers are controlled by state organizations—the Vietnamese press is increasingly vibrant and politically influential. VietNamNet has been at the forefront of this emergence.