A Bittersweet Anniversary for Costa Rica's Tico Times
Betty Dyer's baby is no longer available in print.
Today marks the 60th anniversary of The Tico Times, an English-language weekly launched in Costa Rica under the tutelage of a veteran New York journalist.
Elisabeth “Betty” Dyer had wound up in the country, with a young daughter in tow, after husband Richard Dyer traded the life of a reporter for a PR position with United Fruit Company. From today’s look-back:
A group of Lincoln School seniors asked Dyer to teach them about journalism. Her response? She urged them to learn by doing, and the result was the first edition of the paper, published on May 18, 1956 with a newsstand price of ¢1.
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