THE NEWPORT DAILY NEWS

'''The Newport Daily News''' is an independent six-day daily newspaper serving Newport County, Rhode Island. It publishes in the afternoon on weekdays (Monday through Friday) and in the morning on Saturdays. The ''Daily News'' is the state's largest family-owned newspaper.

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History

Sherman Publishing

References

External link

History

The ''Daily News'' has 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.

Sherman Publishing

Edward A. Sherman Publishing Company, the family-owned publisher of the ''Daily News'', also prints three free weekly newspapers in southern Rhode Island: ''Mercury'', a Wednesday alternative weekly covering Bristol, Newport and Washington counties; the Friday ''Newport Navlog'', the U.S. Navy's oldest base newspaper (founded 1901), covering Naval Station Newport; and ''Ocean State Independent'', mailed to non-''Daily News'' subscribers on Aquidneck Island.^[2]
''Mercury'', relaunched as an alternative paper in March 2005, was previously a paid-subscription weekly, ''The Newport Mercury'', dating from its foundation by James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin, in 1758. The newspaper claimed to be the oldest in the United States, and to have been the first to employ a female editor and publisher, Ann Franklin. It was also the first paper to publish poetry by an African American woman, Phillis Wheatley.

References

1. NewportDailyNews.com: About Us, accessed March 7, 2007.
2. "The Newport Daily News Advertising Rates", January 1, 2007. Accessed March 7, 2007.

External link

★ ''The Newport Daily News'' Online