The newsroom staff of reporters and photographers is currently doing volunteer work, Renois said. There is not a penny to pay them, he stressed, adding that his agency is also facing serious technical difficulties. Computers, cameras, and tape recorders are broken. “How do we send reporters into the field without cameras to capture images?” Renois asked.
Views of
AlterPresse, the online news site of
The director of the Haitian Press Agency, Venel Remarais, said that losses are considerable. The agency, founded in 1989, tends to focus on rural coverage.
A veteran journalist, Renois was formerly head of Radio Metropole’s newsroom
for more than 10 years and is currently also the Agence France-Presse correspondent
in
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i think Alterpress is doing a great job,in haiti,by informimg the nation,after this terrible earthquake.
i am from Brazil, but i worked in Haiti as a nun. I can tell you you doing a good job in keeping that blog on haitians journalists. they are true hero working in that terrible condition