[4] In 2018, Sherman Publishing put the Malbone Road property up for sale; the paper continued to be based out of the building until new office space could be found.

[1] Journalist Jim Gillis was a reporter for the Daily News from 1980 to 2013 and was well known on Aquidneck Island for his weekly "Spare Change" column, which he continued to write until his death in April 2023.

[citation needed] The Mercury was published regularly up to the time the British Army occupied Newport in December 1776 when the press and types were buried.

[11][12] It continued as a subscription weekly published by the Newport Daily News until March 2005, when it was relaunched as a free alternative newsweekly under the editorship of Janine Weisman.

The Courant has long identified itself as the longest "continuously published" newspaper in the United States and most scholarly articles attribute it as such.

[14] The first of these new monthly Mercury editions was published on June 7, 2018 as both an insert in the Newport Daily News and as a stand-alone free newspaper.