Your digital news and investigative media Enquet'Action is 7 years old in the Haitian media landscape. During these seven years, the task has been hard, long and perilous.
Editorial
Since 2018, the country's security situation has continued to deteriorate. Gangs are taking control of more and more territories. Inhabitants and populations are left to fend for themselves. The authorities are non-existent. The State has failed in its regalian missions. All sectors of national life have been hard hit. Institutions are closing their doors. Qualified professionals are abandoning the country en masse, making it unlivable. And the media sector has not been spared.
Dozens of journalists have left the country in recent years. Not to mention those who are killed, kidnapped or forced to abandon their work because they have to flee the Haitian capital. Not to mention those who have been fired by their bosses and forced to close their newsrooms. Media outlets have been looted, some forced to relocate, while others have lost advertisers who have closed up store.
In such a context, to continue to practice journalism, or at least to work as a journalist in an open-air prison such as Haiti is, is to show courage and bravery. It's the fruit of a never-ending passion. It means seeing journalism as a passion before making it a profession. It's about having faith in a better tomorrow.
Despite this chaotic situation, your digital news and investigative media Enquet'Action has held firm. We have accompanied the neglected and abandoned. We're on all the sensitive fronts. Armed violence, war zones, deadly streets, abandoned and lost territories, displaced persons camps, gender-based violence, kidnap victims, food insecurity, etc. are all at the heart of our work, which includes surveys, interviews, portraits, reports and more.
Promise to keep at it!
For the years to come, we're calling on you, our readers, who are passionate about long-form journalism. We need you to keep on supporting us. We promise to continue to be the embodiment of an inclusive press, bringing you something heavy, in-depth and profound.
Share, comment and like our publications, but above all, keep reading, watching and listening. This is also the time to ask you to withdraw your monthly, biannual or annual subscription. This will enable us to maintain our editorial independence. Without a responsible press that respects ethical and deontological principles, we're a long way from having citizens who know their rights and duties.
We will continue to denounce the irresponsibility of those who call themselves authorities without any authority whatsoever, to disturb those who feel too comfortable and too at ease in their comfort zone while going out of their way to say out loud what some say down low. We firmly believe in drinking water for all instead of champagne for the few. An inclusive, critical, denunciatory press is our leitmotif. As good as the press is, so good is the country. Enquet'Action will continue to be a rebel press, refusing to accept the truth by constantly questioning it.
More than ever, we remain committed to everything that makes journalism so valuable: verifying information, honesty, ethics and deontology. New projects will be launched. The previous ones will be consolidated. After all, your media is in a perpetual state of innovation. We try, we stumble, we dare and we invent. Giving up is not one of our subjects or themes. Resisting, yes. To resist is human. It rhymes with hope, life and existence.
Long live Enquet'Action! Long live us!
Milo Milfort, MSc
Editor-in-Chief, Enquet'Action
Investigative journalist
@milforthaiti
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