What is Le National?
Le National is a Haitian daily published in print and online. Its own site describes it as a “quotidien haïtien d'information générale” and lists its print editions by number, the most recent retrieved being N° 2489 of 22 September 2026.[1]
The same site presents two broadcast properties alongside the paper, Radio Pacific on 101.5 FM and Télévision Pacific on channel 54.[1] No ownership instrument for the title or those stations could be retrieved, and the association above is the site's own.
Licensing of radio and television in Haiti is a matter for the Conseil National des Télécommunications, which publishes Textes légaux and Textes réglementaires sections on its own site.[6]
What does Le National cover?
The sections in the site's own navigation are breaking news, news, editorial, tribune, economy, society, culture and sport.[1]
The sport index showed 2,938 articles when read on 23 September 2026, and the items dated that day covered the transfer of the Haitian forward Duckens Nazon to a Libyan first-division club, a Haitian midfielder's part in a Major League Soccer comeback and a hat-trick by the Haitian defender Hannes Delcroix in the Swiss league.[2] Items dated 22 September concerned qualification places for Dakar 2026, a Haitian forward in the French women's league and a Caribbean Cup semi-final draw involving Violette AC.[2] Items dated 19 September covered a MJSAC intervention at a ground in the Grand Sud, a Haitian diver at the world junior championships and a silver medal at Santo Domingo.[2]
The section also carries the domestic competition. On 25 February 2025 it reported that a “championnat spécial” organised by the normalisation committee of the Fédération haïtienne de football would begin on 16 March 2025, and that the previous special championship had been won by Real Hope Football Academy.[3] On 25 June 2026 it published a case for a national sports museum, to “raconter, préserver et transmettre l'histoire sportive de la nation”, anchored on the 1924 Olympic shooting bronze and Sylvio Cator's 1928 long-jump silver.[4]
How large is Le National's audience?
No audited circulation or audience currency for Haitian newspapers could be retrieved for this page, and the outlet's own site publishes no circulation figure.[1] Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and none is used here.
Two datable measures of output are available from the site itself. The print edition is numbered sequentially, reaching N° 2489 on 22 September 2026, and the sport index reported 2,938 archived articles when read on 23 September 2026.[1][2] Both are counts the site prints, not counts computed here, and neither is a readership figure.
For the market around it, Reporters Without Borders places Haiti 107th of 180 countries in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index with a score of 50.32 and states that “Radio is the most widely followed mass medium. The country has more than 700 radio and TV stations, but only half operate legally with a licence from Conatel, the agency that regulates communications.”[5]
Since when has Le National existed?
No founding date for the title could be retrieved from its own site or from any register, and the site states none.[1] The page therefore gives no founding year rather than adopt an unsourced one.
What can be dated is the run of editions and the depth of the archive. The numbered print edition stood at N° 2489 on 22 September 2026, and the sport section's index reported 2,938 articles the following day.[1][2] Dated sport articles retrieved from that archive run from 25 February 2025 to 23 September 2026.[3][4][2]
Why does Le National matter in Haiti's sport?
Its sport desk reports both the diaspora professional record and the domestic competition in the same section, which is unusual in the retrievable Haitian material: on 23 September 2026 it carried Haitian players in Libya, the United States and Switzerland, and on 25 February 2025 it carried the organiser, start date and format of the domestic championship.[2][3]
It also reports the institutional record. Its 25 February 2025 piece named the normalisation committee of the Fédération haïtienne de football as the organiser of the special championship, and named Real Hope Football Academy as the club that took a place in the round of 16 of the Concacaf Champions Cup.[3] Its 25 June 2026 piece is one of the few retrievable Haitian treatments of sporting heritage, and it names no sport as Haitian in origin.[4]
Its own position in the market is not measured by any audited currency; what is published is RSF's description of a market of more than 700 radio and television stations, half of them operating without a Conatel licence.[5][6]
References
- Le National — home page (self-description as “quotidien haïtien d'information générale”; sections; print edition N° 2489 of 22 September 2026; Radio Pacific 101.5 FM and Télévision Pacific channel 54). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Le National — Sport section index (2,938 articles; headlines dated 19 to 23 September 2026). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Le National — Le championnat national est de retour sous un format spécial (25 February 2025). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- Le National — Bâtir la mémoire et le patrimoine sportif: que mettre dans un musée du sport en Haïti ? (25 June 2026). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- RSF — Haiti country page, 2026 World Press Freedom Index (rank 107 of 180, score 50.32; media landscape). Accessed 2026-09-23.
- CONATEL — Conseil National des Télécommunications, official site (regulator; Textes légaux and Textes réglementaires sections). Accessed 2026-09-23.