Overview:
The Haitian Instances writer displays on 2025, a 12 months marked by challenges for Haitians globally, and descriptions the newsroom’s achievements and targets for the long run.
As 2025 attracts to an in depth, I’ve been reflecting on what has been one of the crucial defining years for each Haiti and the Haitian diaspora — and what it has meant for us at The Haitian Instances.
In some ways, this was a 12 months of disaster and complexity. From the relentless instability in Port-au-Prince to the shifting immigration insurance policies within the U.S. that deeply affected Haitian migrants, our group confronted a number of fronts of problem and alter. By all of it, The Haitian Instances remained dedicated to doing what we’ve at all times executed: offering insightful, reliable, and nuanced journalism that facilities our folks and our tales.
We’re proud that our protection has not solely knowledgeable our readers but in addition guided mainstream and worldwide shops searching for to raised perceive the Haitian expertise. That’s no accident — it’s the results of intentional, community-based reporting from our newsroom.
However this 12 months was not simply in regards to the tales we coated. It was additionally about deepening our relationship with you — our readers, supporters, and group members.
In 2025:
- We reached 1.7 million readers, a 40% progress from the earlier 12 months.
- We used insights from our 9-city listening tour to create our Echoes of Power undertaking, which captured the voices and desires of our diaspora.
- We hosted a first-of-its-kind summit in Indiana, connecting Haitian American leaders with newly arrived migrants to help their integration.
- And we partnered with the Queens Public Library to digitize our total archive, preserving the historical past of our folks for generations to come back.
To shut out the 12 months, we’ve introduced our newsroom collectively for a particular Reporters Roundtable — a behind-the-scenes dialog in regards to the greatest tales of the 12 months and what it took to inform them. I invite you to observe it right here:
As we plan for 2026 and past, we stay rooted in our mission — to be a dependable, unbiased supply of data for Haitians in every single place. However we will’t do it alone.
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