|
RISN
RISN Operations Inc., also called Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers, is a privately owned publisher of three daily newspapers and several weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The company was founded by Illinois-based newspaper executives in early 2007 to purchase the Rhode Island holdings of Journal Register Company, which it did for $8.3 million.Grimaldi, Paul. "Journal Register Co. Sells its Nine R.I. Newspapers". ''The Providence Journal'', January 27, 2007. In 2013, RISN acquired the ''Yuma Sun'' and the ''Porterville Recorder'' from Freedom Communications. In 2018, RISN acquired its former competitors South County Newspapers and its publications ''The Independent'' and ''South County Life'' from GateHouse Media, who had bought the papers from The Newport Daily News, Edward A. Sherman Publishing in 2017. In 2019, RISN acquired ''The Westerly Sun'' and Sun Publishing Company from the Record-Journal, Record-Journal Publishing Company of Meriden, Connecticut. Als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times (Pawtucket)
''The Times'' is an American daily newspaper published Mondays through Saturdays in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, covering eastern Providence County, Rhode Island, and some adjacent towns in Massachusetts. It is owned by RISN Operations Inc. History The Pawtucket newspaper was founded as an afternoon daily, ''The Evening Times'', in 1885, by George O. Willard. Five years later, David O. Black bought the paper, and became the first of four generations to keep it in his family. Black commissioned a new building for the newspaper at 23 Exchange street. ''The Times'' has been published in this building since 1896. It was sold in December 1957 to New England Newspapers Inc., a forerunner of Ingersoll Publications, which later acquired the competitor '' The Call'' of Woonsocket. Journal Register Company bought Ingersoll in 1989. In 2007, a new company, RISN, formed to purchase Journal Register's Rhode Island properties, including ''The Times''."The Times Completes Sale". ''The Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent County Daily Times
The ''Kent County Daily Times'' is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) evening daily newspaper based in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, covering central and western Kent County, Rhode Island. It is owned by RISN Operations Inc. Towns in the ''Daily Times''' coverage area include Coventry, East Greenwich, West Greenwich and West Warwick, all suburbs or rural towns southwest of Providence, Rhode Island. History The Kent County paper was founded in 1892 as the ''Pawtuxet Valley Daily Times''. The paper made its debut on July 20 of that year under the direction of Frank Harvey Campbell. Irving Pearce Hudson, a prominent Rhode Island Republican, and his business partner, Charles Burlingham, bought the paper in July 1907. Hudson died on February 24, 1949, at which time his widow, Thirza, took over as president and had her four daughters — Dorothy I. Havens, Lucy M.H. Potter, Marion T. Goddard, and Thirza H. Chettle — as her board of directors. Upon her death on July 18, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Call (Woonsocket)
''The Call'' is an American daily newspaper published seven days per week in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, covering northern Providence County, Rhode Island, and some adjacent towns in Massachusetts. Originally an afternoon newspaper known as ''The Evening Call'', the Woonsocket paper has published seven mornings a week since the 1990s. It is owned by RISN Operations Inc. History ''The Evening Call'' was founded in 1892 by Samuel E. Hudson and Andrew J. McConnell, who predicted that "the people of Woonsocket will support a paper devoted to their local and business interests," "essentially, a paper for the people." Hudson's and McConnell's descendants—Buell W. Hudson, Charles W. Palmer, Andrew P. Palmer and Nancy E. Hudson—ran the paper for nearly 90 years before selling it to Ingersoll Publications 21st Century Media was an American media company. It was the successor of Ingersoll Publications and Journal Register Company, and it was succeeded by Digital First Media. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuma Sun
The ''Yuma Sun'' is a newspaper in Yuma, Arizona, United States. It has a circulation of 18,799.Mondo Newspapers circulation History Though not founded until 1896, the Yuma Sun can trace its history back to the ''Arizona Sentinel'', the first newspaper in what is now the Yuma area. The Yuma Sun would eventually be formed by a merger of the Arizona Sentinel and the Yuma Sun's predecessor, the ''Yuma Morning Sun''.The Arizona Sentinel The Sentinel was founded in 1871 by David A. Gordon and C. L. Minor when Yuma was still known as Arizona City. Th ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porterville Recorder
The ''Porterville Recorder'' is a daily newspaper in the town of Porterville, California. Freedom Communications Freedom Communications, Inc., was an American media conglomerate that operated daily and weekly newspapers, websites and mobile applications, as well as ''Coast Magazine'' and other specialty publications. Headquartered at 625 N. Grand Avenue in ... bought the paper in 1974 and sold it to current owner Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers in 2013. References External links * Daily newspapers published in California[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Publishing Company
Sun Publishing Company is a daily and weekly newspaper publisher in southwest Rhode Island and southeast Connecticut, United States. It is a Westerly, Rhode Island-based subsidiary of RISN Operations. The company's flagship publication is a daily, ''The Westerly Sun''. Sun Publishing's four weeklies include three covering Rhode Island towns, based in the Westerly headquarters—the ''Charlestown Press'', ''Westerly Pawcatuck Press'' and ''Wood River Press''—and one Connecticut publication, the ''Mystic River Press'', based at 15 Holmes Street, Mystic, Connecticut: *''Charlestown Press''. Covering Charlestown, the villages of Kenyon and Shannock in Richmond, and parts of South Kingstown. Total-market postal delivery every Thursday. *''Mystic River Press''. Covering Groton, North Stonington and Stonington, Connecticut, including the villages of Mystic, Old Mystic and West Mystic. Free "requester" postal delivery every Thursday. *''Westerly Pawcatuck Press''. Covering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South County Newspapers
Independent Newspapers is an independent publisher of a weekly newspaper, ''The Independent'', and a magazine, ''South County Life'', in Washington County, Rhode Island. The company was founded by veteran newspaper publisher Frederick J. Wilson III in 1997, seeking to "produce a weekly newspaper that would not be beholden to corporate interests." Wilson is no longer involved with the company, which was later sold to Edward A. Sherman Publishing Company, the publishers of '' The Newport Daily News''. Independent Newspapers shares advertising resources with '' The Newport Daily News''. In 2017, Edward A. Sherman Publishing and all of its publications, including ''The Independent'', was sold to Gatehouse Media in October 2017. In 2018, Gatehouse sold ''The Independent'' and its sister magazine ''South County Life'' to Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers. ''The Independent'' is published on Thursdays. For several years under its Sherman and Gatehouse ownerships, its main offices were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Union Democrat
''The Union Democrat'' is a newspaper that serves the Sonora and Sierra Nevada foothills area of Tuolumne and Calaveras counties, California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the ... since 1854. It was acquired by Oregon-based Western Communications since 1998. Previously, it was owned and published by Harvey and Helen McGee. In 2019, Western Communications declared bankruptcy. It put all its properties, including the Union-Democrat up for sale. ''The Union Democrat'' was sold to RISN Operations. References External linksOfficial The Union Democrat website Newspapers published in California Mass media in Tuolumne County, California Sonora, California Newspapers established in 1854 1854 establishments in California {{California-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chronicle (Willimantic)
''The Chronicle'' is a daily newspaper published in Willimantic, Connecticut, serving the Windham area and the eastern Connecticut counties of Windham, Tolland, and New London. It was founded in 1877 and currently publishes editions from Monday to Saturday, with an approximate circulation of 3,000. ''The Chronicle'' is owned by Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers. The Chronicle historically had a daily circulation of approximately 10,000, but began to decline after the start of the 21st century, a phenomenon common to all U.S. daily newspapers. By 2018, the paper's circulation had dipped below 3,000. For almost all of its history, the newspaper was locally owned and operated by the MacDonald Bartlett Crosbie family of Willimantic. They sold it in May 2017 to Chronicle Media, L.L.C, a subsidiary of Central Connecticut Communications of New Britain, Connecticut, publisher of the '' Bristol Press'' and ''New Britain Herald'' daily newspapers and the ''Newington Town Crier'' and ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Westerly Sun
''The Westerly Sun'' is a seven-day daily newspaper published in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States, covering portions of Washington County, Rhode Island, and New London County, Connecticut. ''The Sun'' is issued mornings 7 days a week. Until 1995, it published its Sunday edition in the afternoon, and was the only such paper to do so at that time.Baker, Frank (2 April 1995). This fall, it will combine its Saturday/Sunday editions to a special "Weekend Edition" delivered on Saturday mornings, and it will switch from newspaper carrier to mail deliverSun Sets on Unique Sunday Newspaper Journalism '' Los Angeles Times'', Retrieved November 2, 2010 ''The Sun'' is the flagship publication of Sun Publishing Company, which also prints several free weekly newspapers in the area. Sun Publishing is itself a subsidiary of Southern RI Newspapers of Wakefield, RI. Towns covered by ''The Sun'' include Charlestown, Hopkinton, Richmond, South Kingstown and Westerly, Rhode Island; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freedom Communications
Freedom Communications, Inc., was an American media conglomerate that operated daily and weekly newspapers, websites and mobile applications, as well as ''Coast Magazine'' and other specialty publications. Headquartered at 625 N. Grand Avenue in Santa Ana, California, it was owned by a private equity firm, 2100 Trust, established in 2010 by investor Aaron Kushner Freedom's flagship newspaper was the '' Orange County Register'', based in Santa Ana. Ownership Founder R.C. Hoiles gained a one-third interest in his first newspaper (''The Alliance Review'' in Ohio) sometime in the 1910s. He and his brother Frank bought many more local newspapers over the next several decades. In 1935 he moved his base of operations to Santa Ana, California, and in 1950 he incorporated his syndicate as Freedom Newspapers, Inc. It was renamed Freedom Communications in 1993. Freedom was operated as an entirely family-owned business until 2004, when private-equity firms Blackstone Group and Providenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Newport Daily News
''The Newport Daily News'' is a six-day daily newspaper serving Newport County, Rhode Island. It publishes in the mornings on weekdays (Monday through Friday) and in the morning on Saturdays. The ''Daily News'' was the state's largest family-owned newspaper until it was purchased by Gatehouse Media in 2017. History Until its sale to Gatehouse Media, the ''Daily News'' had been locally owned since it was founded in 1846. It was named Newspaper of the Year by the New England Newspaper Association in 1991, 2001 and 2004. In 1970, the newspaper moved from Thames Street, Rhode Island, Thames Street in downtown Newport to an office on Malbone Road in the northern part of the city, shortly after the completion of the nearby Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge. In 2018, Sherman Publishing put the Malbone Road property up for sale, but the paper continued to be based out of the building until new office space could be found. In March 2019, the paper's office moved to Middletown, Rhode Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.svg "Click for more on -> The Westerly Sun")