East Bay Media Group

East Bay Media Group is a family-owned newspaper publisher based in Bristol, Rhode Island, owning seven weekly newspapers across eastern Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.

The company 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. Its papers include the Barrington Times, Bristol Phoenix, East Providence Post, Portsmouth Times, Sakonnet Times (Tiverton and Little Compton), Westport Shorelines, and the Warren Times-Gazette, founded in 1961. Current publisher Scott Pickering has worked at the company for more than three decades.

The company also publishes East Bay Classifieds, inserted into all its weekly papers, and previously published Newport This Week (founded 1972) until selling it to a former employee in 2011.

Content from all seven papers is available online at eastbayri.com, with print subscriptions including digital access.