WESTERLY – Sun Media Group has reached an agreement to sell the Westerly Sun and its related publications (including the Mystic River Press) to R.I.S.N. Operations Inc., known as Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers, the company reported in The Westerly Sun Monday.
The company already owns and operates several local publications, including the recently acquired paper, The Independent, The Narragansett Times, the North Kingstown Standard-Times, the Chariho Times, the East Greenwich Pendulum, the Coventry Courier and the Kent County Daily Times, as well as the Pawtucket Times and the Woonsocket Call.
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RISN said it intends to retain all employees involved with the transaction.
Details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Sun Media Group is a subsidiary of Record-Journal Publishing Co., based in Meriden, Conn.
RISN operates as a subsidiary of Horizon Publications Inc., which is headquartered in Marion, Ill., and operates community publications in the United States and Canada, according to Bloomberg LP.
According to state filings, the company’s listed president is Melanie Walsh, of Illinois, and its listed secretary is Roland L. McBride.
McBride was previously affiliated with Conrad Black’s Hollinger International. Walsh is the daughter of David Radler, former publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and former chief operating officer of Hollinger International.
