Le National

Port-au-Prince daily launched in 2015, publishing in French with regular cultural and literary pages. Le National provides reported coverage of Haitian politics, the economy, society and the arts alongside opinion columns, and maintains a full digital edition, making it one of the few traditional print dailies still operating in Haiti.

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Le National at a glance

Country: Haiti
Region: The Caribbean · Americas
Kind of outlet: Daily newspaper
Editorial leaning: Centrist
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How Crosswire groups Le National

Crosswire groups Le National as Centrist for comparisons within Haiti's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate.

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Where Le National sits in Haiti's press

Le National is one of 4 outlets tracked in Haiti, and one of 2 daily newspapers among them — the other being Le Nouvelliste. By outlets tracked, Haiti ranks 24th of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.

Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 85 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Le National outside Haiti, starting with The Caribbean, are Trinidad Guardian (Trinidad and Tobago), Nation News (Barbados), The Nassau Guardian (Bahamas) and The Sun Dominica (Dominica). Opening one of them beside Le National is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.