About: RISN Operations

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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. In 2013, RISN acquired the Yuma Sun and the Porterville Recorder from Freedom Communications. In 2022, RISN acquired the Chronicle of Willimantic, Connecticut, from Central Connecticut Communications.

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  • 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. 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 Union Democrat in California. In 2022, RISN acquired the Chronicle of Willimantic, Connecticut, from Central Connecticut Communications. (en)
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  • Newspapers (en)
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  • Melanie Radler, president (en)
  • Roland McBride, vice president (en)
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  • The Call and seven other newspapers in Rhode Island (en)
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  • 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. In 2013, RISN acquired the Yuma Sun and the Porterville Recorder from Freedom Communications. In 2022, RISN acquired the Chronicle of Willimantic, Connecticut, from Central Connecticut Communications. (en)
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