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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 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 Edward A. Sherman Publishing in 2017. In 2019, RISN acquired '' The Westerly Sun'' and Sun Publishing Company from the Record-Journal Publishing Company of Meriden, Connecticut. Also in 2019, RISN acquired ''The Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...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. Because of this unique publishing arrangement, it was the first newspaper that reported on the Pearl Harbor attack.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 cov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porterville, California
Porterville is a city at the base of Southern Sierra Nevada mountains on the eastern side of San Joaquin Valley, in Tulare County, California, United States. It is part of the Visalia-Porterville metropolitan statistical area. Serving as the economic hub of the Southern Sierra, the Sequoia National Forest is nearby, offering outdoor recreational opportunities such as hiking, camping, and fishing. Since its incorporation in 1902, the city's population has grown as it annexed nearby unincorporated areas. The city population (not including East Porterville) was 62,623 at the 2020 census. Porterville serves as a gateway to Sequoia National Forest, Giant Sequoia National Monument and Kings Canyon National Park. History During California's Spanish period, the San Joaquin Valley was considered a remote region of little value. Emigrants skirted the eastern foothills in the vicinity of Porterville as early as 1826. Swamps stretched out into the Valley floor lush with tall rushes or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Warwick, Rhode Island
West Warwick is a town in Kent County, Rhode Island, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 31,012 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census. West Warwick was incorporated in 1913, making it the youngest town in the state. Prior to 1913, the town, situated on the western bank of the Pawtuxet River, was the population and industrial center of the larger town of Warwick, Rhode Island, Warwick. The town split because local Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politicians wanted to consolidate their power and isolate their section of town from the Republican Party (United States), Republican-dominated farmland in the east. History The area that is now the town of West Warwick was the site of some of the earliest textile mills in the United States situated along the banks of the north and south branches of the Pawtuxet River. These small mill villages of the would play an important role in the early development of the textile industry in North Amer ... [...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 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
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, Woonsocket lies directly south of the Massachusetts state line and constitutes part of both the Providence metropolitan area and the larger Greater Boston Combined Statistical Area. The city is the corporate headquarters of CVS Health, a pharmacy services provider. It is home to Landmark Medical Center, the Museum of Work and Culture, and the American-French Genealogical Society. History Before the arrival of European settlers in northern Rhode Island during the 17th century, today's Woonsocket region was inhabited by three Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes: the Nipmuc (Cowesett), Wampanoag, and Narragansett (tribe), Narragansett. In 1661, the English theologian Roger Williams purchased the area from the "Coweset and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Radler
F. David Radler (born 1942 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian executive active in finance and news media. Radler was once president of Ravelston Corporation, a privately owned corporation owned by Conrad Black and Radler to control their former newspaper empire. Ravelston owned Argus Corporation which in turn controlled Chicago-based Hollinger International. In 2005, 14.1% of Ravelston was owned by Radler. Career Radler graduated from Queen's University in 1967 with a master's degree in Business Administration. In the 1980s Radler was in charge of the sale of Argus Corporation's Dominion supermarket chain to The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, or A&P. As well, Radler was once based in Chicago to help Black's media business—managed under Chicago-based Hollinger International in the United States—as publisher of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' newspaper and president and chief operating officer of Hollinger International. Throughout his career, Radler cultivated a reputa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollinger International
Hollinger Inc. was a Canadian media company based in Toronto which was established in 1985 by businessman Conrad Black. At one time, the company was the third-largest media empire in the world. In 1996, through stock purchases, it took over control of Southam Inc., at the time, Canada's largest newspaper chain and a newswire service. It sold its Canadian newspaper holdings to Canwest Global Communications Inc., in August 2000, which included the company's flagship national newspaper, the recently formed ''National Post''. Hollinger, through its subsidiary Hollinger International, continued to own newspapers in the United States, including the ''Chicago Sun-Times''. The company went bankrupt in 2007 and was delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange in August 2008. History Hollinger Inc. was used by Conrad Black as a holding company for his media interests after he acquired control of ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 1986. The company took its name from Hollinger Gold Mines, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-British writer and former politician, Publishing, newspaper publisher, Investor, financier, and Fraudster, convicted fraudster. Black's father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadian manufacturing, retail and media businesses through part-ownership of the holding company Ravelston Corporation. In 1978, two years after their father's death, Conrad and his older brother Montegu took majority control of Ravelston. Over the next seven years, Conrad Black sold off most of their non-media holdings to focus on newspaper publishing. He controlled Hollinger Inc., Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published ''The Daily Telegraph'' (UK), ''Chicago Sun-Times'' (US), ''The Jerusalem Post'' (Israel), ''National Post'' (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before controversy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willimantic, Connecticut
Willimantic is a census-designated place located in Windham, Connecticut, United States. Previously organized as a city and later as a Borough (Connecticut), borough, Willimantic is currently one of two Local government in Connecticut#Special tax and service districts, tax districts within the Town of Windham. Willimantic is located within Windham County, Connecticut, Windham County and the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. Known as "Thread City" for the American Thread Company's mills along the Willimantic River, it was a center of the textile industry in the 19th century. Originally incorporated as a city in 1893, it entered a period of decline after the Second World War, culminating in the mill's closure and the city's reabsorption into the town of Windham in the 1980s. Willimantic was populated by a series of ethnic groups migrating to the city to find work at the mills, originally Western European and French Cana ... [...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 ' ... [...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 in California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ... since 1854. History The paper was acquired by Oregon-based Western Communications in 1998. Before then, it was owned and published by Harvey and Helen McGee. In 2019, Western Communications declared bankruptcy, placing all of 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 {{Californ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
