Rearview 2022
A conversation with Costa Rica’s first certified mermaid
If you’re as new to this topic as I was before talking to Madelline Sánchez, let me first assure you: yes. It’s a thing....
In our final longform of 2022, we’re proud to present our first longform story created for audio. We talk to two women who have...
Mónica Quesada Cordero reads Alejandro Zúñiga’s story from our November 2021 edition, “Tenacious,” focused on non-traditional professional sports in Costa Rica. This piece showcases...
Can Costa Rican municipalities safeguard caregivers’ mental health?
“Mom, don’t do that. Mom, make sure you don’t fall down. Mom, you ok over there?”
Psychologist Giselle Chanto is trying to show me how...
Just in Time for the Holidays: Arts and craft fair takes over Atenas
Every community has distinctive features that set it apart from its neighbors and are a source of local pride. Sometimes these are natural features,...
Have communities kept learning from their past emergencies?
Deadline, a contest based at the University of Costa Rica, challenges journalism students to create a story for publication in a Costa Rican outlet—for...
On November 30, we held our annual virtual newsroom meeting with our community at El Colectivo 506. Katherine and I loved this conversation with...
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Passion for journalism: reflections from El Salvador’s ‘Mediatón’
What do you do before starting a new project? It can be something relatively simple like your kid’s homework from school, or reorganizing a...