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The Haitian Times

U.S. diaspora/community media, center-left in orientation

Owned byIndependent and privately founded. Garry Pierre-Pierre founded it in 1999. Vania André is now publisher and editor-in-chief, and Pierre-Pierre moved to a special-advisor role. I could not confirm whether it has a formal nonprofit structure or a parent company.
FundingA mix of foundation grants (the Ford Foundation and Press Forward have been reported), reader donations and fundraising drives, and likely some advertising and sponsorship. I could not verify a full breakdown or its tax status.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

Garry Pierre-Pierre, a New York Times reporter, and Yves Colon, a Miami Herald reporter, founded The Haitian Times. Its first issue came out on October 27, 1999, as a New York-based weekly aimed at Haitian immigrants and the wider diaspora. Over time it moved from print to a mainly digital operation covering Haiti and Haitian communities in the U.S. Pierre-Pierre is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who also helped found the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's Center for Community and Ethnic Media. After about 25 years as publisher he stepped back to a special-advisor role, and Vania André took over as publisher and editor-in-chief. The outlet has received grants from the Ford Foundation, for work on diaspora communities, and from Press Forward, which supported expanded coverage in the Midwest. It also runs reader fundraising drives, such as a $10,000 summer 2025 appeal. In 2026 it reported on the end of TPS for Haitians and on how immigration enforcement affects students and workers, with a focus on human impact. It is a community-focused outlet that centers the diaspora's interests, so its framing tends to be sympathetic to immigrants and critical of restrictive immigration policy. I found no major retractions or controversies in my searches.

Sources

  1. The Haitian Times (Wikipedia)
  2. Q&A: The Haitian Times - Columbia Journalism Review
  3. Garry Pierre-Pierre - Pulitzer Center
  4. Support The Haitian Times: Help raise $10K to tell Haiti's stories
  5. The Haitian Times increases coverage in the Midwest - Press Forward
  6. Trump immigration policies disrupt Haitian student's college dreams - The Haitian Times

Profile compiled 2026-10-27; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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