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AyiboPost, the Haitian media of a "generation that is questioning everything"
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Ralph Thomassin Joseph, publishing director of AyiboPost, a young Haitian media, is the guest of Mikaël Ponge.
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Inform, educate, and raise awareness.
This is the credo of AyiboPost, a young Haitian media, created in 2015, which innovates and denotes in the journalistic landscape of the country.
Passing through Paris, its publishing director Ralph Thomassin Joseph is our guest.
Advertising
"
Providing quality information
", such is the ambition of
AyiboPost
according to Ralph Thomassin Joseph, the publishing director of this young media which employs 24 people, including 16 journalists and audiovisual developers.
"
A young media, directed and produced by young people
", defends our 35-year-old guest who explains that he became a journalist because of the "
lack of quality information
" in Haiti.
"
I didn't want to reproduce what I saw
: an irresponsible state, elites who have abandoned the country.
There is a generation of young people who want to see things differently.
We are a generation that is questioning everything.
It is with this in mind that AyiboPost was born, breaking with what existed and that we are questioning
”, specifies Ralph Thomassin Joseph.
AyiboPost therefore insists “
on explanatory content, produced largely in Creole to be accessible to more people
”.
Content that “
will always be free
” and without advertising, which allows “
independence to carry out investigations, in particular on corruption files that involve companies and political figures
".
An independence that disturbs today.
AyiboPost is the target of threats and kidnappings, which despite everything do not demotivate its members.
"
We are a space that legitimizes a certain discourse
", summarizes Ralph Thomassin Joseph
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“
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