| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | RISN Operations Inc. |
| Publisher | Barry M. Mechanic |
| Editor | Dan Trafford |
| Founded | April 30, 1885 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 23 Exchange Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860 USA |
| Circulation | 8,706 daily in 2006[1] |
| Official website | pawtuckettimes.com |
The Times is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) daily newspaper based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA, covering eastern Providence County, Rhode Island, and some adjacent towns in Massachusetts. It is owned by RISN Operations Inc.
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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. 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.[2]
In its coverage area, The Times competes with the state's largest daily, the Providence Journal. 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 three other daily newspapers in Rhode Island, The Call of Woonsocket (which shares a publisher with The Times), the Kent County Daily Times of West Warwick and the Warwick Daily Times, as well as several weekly newspapers. All of these properties were sold for $8.3 million to RISN in early 2007 by Journal Register Company.[3]
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