La Prensa Libre

La Prensa Libre (The Free Press) was a daily newspaper published in San José, the capital city of Costa Rica. It was the country's oldest continually published newspaper, founded 11 June 1889.[1]

This article is about the Costa Rican newspaper. For other uses, see Prensa Libre.

The newspaper stopped publishing its print edition on 31 December 2014, and moved to a digital format in January 2015. In August 2020, Grupo Extra announced that the newspaper was to cease publication, citing reduced advertising revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

References
  1. Janus, Noreene; Rockwel, Rick J. (1 January 2003). Media Power in Central America. University of Illinois Press. p. 111. ISBN 0252028023.
  2. Cerdas E., Daniela (21 August 2020). "Cierra La Prensa Libre tras 131 años de operación: ′Se hace imposible sostenerlo económicamente'". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  • Mitchell, Meg Tyler; Scott Pentzer (2008). Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook. Global studies series, Latin America & the Caribbean. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-992-4. OCLC 166873288.
  • Rockwell, Rick J.; Noreene Janus (2003). Media Power in Central America. The History of Communication series. Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone (series eds.). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02802-3. OCLC 50192180.
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