HAITI Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

116Print overviewHaitian newspapers only circulate amongst the educated and relatively affluent elitein Port-au-Prince and Haiti’s other main towns.They are influential amongst the country’s decision makers, but do not reach a massaudience amongst the poorer levels of society.Only half of Haiti’s adult population can read and write.Whereas most broadcasting takes place in Creole, all newspapers are written inFrench.Circulation figures are low. Le Nouvelliste www.lenouvelliste.com, Haiti’s only dailynewspaper, has a normal print run of 15,000.However, the country’s leading publications also have a large online readership, bothwithin Haiti and amongst the diaspora overseas.Their articles are also picked up by news aggregator sites.Le Nouvelliste said in late 2011 that it was recording over 500,000 hits a month on itswebsite, with nearly half coming from the United States.Many of the stories that newspapers publish reach the Haitian public indirectlythrough other media. Radio stations frequently pick up newspaper articles as sourcematerial for their Creole language news bulletins.The two main newspapers published within Haiti are Le Nouvelliste, a daily whichwas founded in 1898, and Le Matin www.lematinhaiti.com , a former daily paperwhich now publishes weekly.116