HAITI Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

117Le Nouvelliste, which has been owned for several generations by the Chauvetfamily, publishes the colour supplement Ticket Magazine as an insert.This sport, culture and entertainment magazine carries a lot of news aboutcelebrities and show business.Ticket Magazine was originally published weekly, but since early 2012, it hasappeared in the newspaper on an almost daily basis.Le Matin, which was founded in1907, distributes about 10,000 copies per week, butonly 5,000 copies are paid for.It is printed across the border in the Dominican Republic.Newspapers, particularly Le Nouvelliste, enjoy strong advertising revenue.Display advertising by large companies, such as the mobile phone networks, issupplemented by the publication of government announcements, tender noticesissued by the government and aid agencies, and job adverts.In recent years, Le Nouvelliste and Le Matin have become more rigorous,professional and editorially independent in their reporting.Many back issues of Le Nouvelliste and Le Matin can be found online in the DigitalLibrary of the Caribbean www.dloc.com.Several paper and online newspapers are produced overseas for the diaspora andmany of these are widely read within Haiti.117