The online newspaper is published every weekday by a professional staff.
It's quality is much better than the print English-language weekly.
A.M. Costa Rica typically publishes four to five pages of news every weekday
and also has extensive classified pages with real estate sales and rentals, a special
tourism page and even an employment section that will take your jobs wanted
and jobs sought ads for free.
The newspaper also accepts local article-for-sale ads for free.
The editors post the news pages each day about 2 a.m. Costa Rican time
and then send out an e-mail digest of the news to subscribers. Free subscriptions
are available here.
The newspaper keeps a statistical page with up-to-date readership statistics here.
Another source of English language news for Costa Rica is the English-language
weekly page of the leading Spanish newspaper
The Spanish-language daily newspaper translates a couple of articles a week into English and published them on its Web site every Friday.
La Nacion is more fully discussed under the Spanish-language newspaper heading.
A weekly source of English language news for Costa Rica is
The Tico Times
The 50-year old weekly just went through a typographical makeover. The newspaper also is caught in a price spiral with the rising cost of paper. Many people think that the $1 cover price is excessive. The Tico Times decided to stop competing with the modern, faster, free Internet editions and retreated to paid online distribution in July 2006.
The current daily Internet edition is just a few stories