The national festival is to serve as a platform where reporters and photojournalists will cover the news stories and developments taking place within 36 hours in the country.
The participants are to produce pieces of news in varied categories of headlines, op-eds, editorials, reports, photos, podcasts, mobile clips, posters, infographics, and idea generation.
Jihad of service, Jihad of clarification, and Jihad of hope are to be focused at the media contest.
The ceremony is to be attended by Major General Hossein Salami, the chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), tomorrow.
The First National Hope Media Cup which started today at the Comprehensive University of Islamic Revolution in the capital city will run for two days.
The enemy’s main plan is to use false publicity, or propaganda, as they call it. The way to overcome propaganda is with “clarification.” Clarifying the truth [must be done] by different people, with different voices, with different interpretations, and using new forms, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said.
"Jihad of clarification must be taken seriously, by everyone, in the seminaries, in the universities, and in particular on radio and television, in the printed media, in all the places where you are, all around you."
In the face of the foes' scheme, Ayatollah Khamenei considers it to be the duty of the elite to engage in the jihad of clarification and to nullify the doubts and uncertainties created by the ill-wishers.
TM