''The Times'' is an American

daily newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ...

published Mondays through Saturdays in

Pawtucket, Rhode Island Pawtucket ( ) is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence, Rhode Island, Prov ...

, covering eastern

Providence County, Rhode Island Providence County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 660,741, or 60.2% of the state's population. Providence County contains the city of Providence, the state cap ...

, and some adjacent towns in

Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

. It was owned by

RISN Operations 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 exe ...

and is currently owned by Triboro Massachusetts News Media. In October 2023, Triboro Massachusetts News Media announced that ''The Times'' would be merging with sister paper '' The Call'' of

Woonsocket Woonsocket ( ), is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 43,240 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, making it the sixth largest city in the state. Being Rhode Island's northernmost city, Woonsoc ...

to become ''The Blackstone Valley Call & Times'', a Monday–Saturday newspaper.

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 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. The company operated more than 350 multi-platform products in 992 comm ...

, which later acquired the competitor '' The Call'' of

Journal Register Company 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. The company operated more than 350 multi-platform products in 992 comm ...

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 Times'' (Pawtucket, R.I.), February 5, 2007.

Sisters and competitors

In its coverage area, ''The Times'' competes with the state's largest daily, the ''

Providence Journal ''The Providence Journal'', colloquially known as the ''ProJo'', is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, the largest newspaper in Rhode Island, US. The newspaper was first published in 1829. The newspaper had won four ...

'', and The Valley Breeze Pawtucket edition. It also competes in nearby Massachusetts towns with the '' Milford Daily News''. In 2008, former Times journalist Douglas Haddon co-founded
All Pawtucket, All the Time
', publishing a free weekly print edition. RISN (which stands for Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers) also owns two other daily newspapers in Rhode Island, '' The Call'' of

(which shares a publisher with ''The Times'') and the ''

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 ...

'' of West Warwick, as well as several

weekly newspaper Weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspap ...

s. All of these properties were sold for $8.3 million to RISN in early 2007 by

."RISN Completes Purchase of Daily Times". ''Kent County Daily Times'' (W. Warwick, R.I.), February 6, 2007.

References

External links

''The Times'' Website
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History

Sisters and competitors

See also

References

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