private industry newspapers founded 1837 headquarters 1 bradford street bristol rhode island 02809 united states key people matthew hayes publisher owner scott pickering general manager lisa carro business manager jock hayes operations manager products seven weeklies in massachusetts and rhode island website www.eastbayri.com east bay newspapers also called phoenix times publishing company is a publisher based in bristol rhode island united states and owner of seven weekly newspapers in eastern rhode island and southeastern massachusetts . office hours are monday through friday 8 00 a.m. to 4 00 p.m. contents 1 history 2 publications 3 references 4 external links history edit east bay began with the bristol phoenix founded by william h. s. bayley in 1837 . current owner matthew hayes is descended from roswell s. bosworth sr. who took over the paper in 1929 . the company s web presence debuted in 1998 . 1 publications edit east bay newspapers publishes seven newspapers in rhode island spanning bristol newport and providence counties and two in bristol county massachusetts . news bureaux are maintained in rhode island at 1 bradford street bristol rhode island . barrington times based in bristol the times has covered barrington rhode island since 1958 . its newsstand cost is one dollar . bristol phoenix the company s flagship paper the phoenix is based in and covers bristol rhode island . it was founded in 1837 and now costs one dollar . east providence post the post based in bristol covers east providence rhode island . it is a free newspaper . sakonnet times based in tiverton the sakonnet times has covered little compton and tiverton rhode island since 1967 . it costs one dollar . portsmouth times based in bristol the portsmouth times covers portsmouth . it is a free newspaper . warren times gazette based in bristol and covering warren rhode island the times gazette was founded in 1961 and costs one dollar . westport shorelines based in tiverton westport shorelines was founded in 1994 to cover westport massachusetts . it costs 75 cents . east bay formerly published a weekly in middletown and newport rhode island called newport this week . the paper founded in 1972 was sold to former employee tom shevlin in 2011 after he had left to start a news website newport now in 2009 . 2 references edit eastbayri.com about us accessed march 9 2007 . depp michael december 19 2011 . r.i. pureplay flips trend with legacy buy . netnewscheck.com . retrieved february 10 2012 . external links edit eastbayri.com company website this article about a massachusetts newspaper is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a rhode island newspaper is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title east bay newspapers & oldid 733206978 categories bristol county rhode islandmedia in bristol county massachusettsnewport county rhode islandnewspaper companies of the united statesnewspapers published in massachusettsnewspapers published in rhode islandprovidence county rhode islandnortheastern united states newspaper stubsmassachusetts stubsrhode island stubshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 august 2016 at 05 13 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view