In the wake of the Haiti earthquake disaster last week a number of news organisations have been quick to get aid initiatives off the ground to help raise money and ease some off the communication problems caused by the collapse of the domestic telephone network.

The Sun launched its Helping Haiti appeal last week to help readers to make donations to the stricken nation online, by phone, text message or post – the money will be handed over to Medecins Sans Frontieres to help its relief effort.

Most other national newspapers mentioned the Disasters Emergency Committee fund as the central point for donations in stories.