"The prestigious award is going to put a lot of wind behind my back. Tonight is a mark of a long journey with the beginning of another, a journey that may result in the end of the illicit macaque trading network in Southeast Asia. My great appreciation to the Earth Journalism Network of Internews for active support of these unfinished investigations."
— Hoang Quoc Dzung, environmental journalist, co-founder of the Vietnam Forum of Environmental Journalists, at the 2008 Internews Media Leadership Awards
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Hoang Quoc Dzung is one of the founders and the executive deputy-president of the Vietnam Forum of Environmental Journalists (VFEJ), created October 1998. After previously serving as a foreign affairs reporter, he has specialized in environmental coverage for 13 years at the Tien Phong (Vanguard) Newspaper, one of Vietnam’s ten largest-circulation dailies. He also works as chief editor of Tien Phong’s Science Section, which covers science, technology, environment, and health issues.
In late 2007, Dzung led a team of VFEJ journalists who carried out a landmark investigative report uncovering illegal trade in macaques in Indochina. Dzung has been involved in various activities to improve the capacity of Vietnam’s environmental journalism, including composing a handbook in Vietnamese on Environment Writing in a Time of Globalization, managing the monthly print bulletin Journalists & Environment, setting up a web site on environmental journalism, and running series of workshops, training courses, and fieldtrips within and outside Vietnam on environmental issues for working journalists in print, radio, and TV outlets nationwide since 1998.
Hoang Quoc Dzung is one of the founders and the executive deputy-president of the Vietnam Forum of Environmental Journalists (VFEJ), created October 1998. After previously serving as a foreign affairs reporter, he has specialized in environmental coverage for 13 years at the Tien Phong (Vanguard) Newspaper, one of Vietnam’s ten largest-circulation dailies. He also works as chief editor of Tien Phong’s Science Section, which covers science, technology, environment, and health issues.