The U.S. Postal Service’s plan to raise mailing rates could present one more damaging blow to community newspapers already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and advertising declines, a trade group says. Rates on periodicals would increase by more than 8% as of Aug. 29, according to agency filings. The price jump is part of a broad plan pushed by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to overhaul mail operations. more

The Hope Center has named longtime board member Rufus Friday as its next executive director. The Hope Center is Lexington, Kentucky's, largest homeless center for men. Friday served as the former publisher and president of the Lexington Herald-Leader for seven years before stepping down in 2018. more

Kid Scoop, a weekly page of learning activities for children published in more than 300 newspapers and a monthly news magazine for children in “print deserts,” is one of 12 international laureates awarded the Global Youth and News Media Prize. Among the other laureates are NBC Nightly News Kids Edition and The Canadian Broadcasting Company Kids News. more

“A crazy story in the middle of a pandemic,” is how Borja Echevarría, managing editor of El País, describes their shift to a subscription model last year. But as crazy as it may sound, El País seems to have made it work, going from zero to 100,000 subscribers in 11 months. more

The “should black be capped” question is a subjective call. Some black writers were elated by the shift, others were ambivalent and some were dismayed. In a podcast, The Washington Post provides a glimpse into the range of thinking on the issue among its black staff members. more

The Post and Courier Education Lab will support one editor and two full-time reporters focused on education with a clear focus on South Carolina education reform. It is being founded on the principle that all children in South Carolina deserve equal access to quality education. more

After 32 years of guiding Community Newspapers Inc. (CNI), co-owners Tom Wood and Dink NeSmith are turning over the corporate leadership to new co-chief executive officers.  more

The marketplace for online news has thus far rewarded (a) premium quality and (b) local connection. USA Today’s digital subscription offering seems likely, in its current form at least, to fall between those two stools. more

Ethan Myers, who graduated from Linfield University in May, will cover the Port of Astoria, Warrenton and business topics for The Astorian in Astoria, Oregon. more

USA TODAY announced a grant-funded partnership with the nonprofit Stand Together on a project aimed at exposing the abuses protected by qualified immunity, which insulates officers and departments from civil liability for police misconduct. In a series of editorials and columns, USA TODAY will cover cases of justice denied as they are handed down by courts, give voice to those victimized by police and detail efforts to reform the policy at the state level. USA TODAY’s work will be shared with Gannett’s more than 250 local news sites in 46 states. more

Legendary journalist Joseph Clarence Crankshaw III, a Georgia native who arrived in Stuart in 1958, is being revered this week as a humble Korean War veteran who loved being a writer and reporter, a local historian and a fair-minded man who could tell a great story. more

Wendy Galietta has been named senior photo technologist and operations editor with The Washington Post. more

A Pennsylvania man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he assaulted an Associated Press photographer and police officers during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. more

Trudi Gilfillian is the new opinion editor for four McClatchy newspapers in South Carolina: The State (Columbia), The Beaufort Gazette, The Island Packet (Hilton Head) and The Sun News (Myrtle Beach). more

Carol Herman, an award-winning journalist and editor with The Washington Times for over two decades, has died. She was 69. more

A North Carolina Superior Court judge put a small-town newspaper editor behind bars last month after one of his reporters used an audio recorder for note-taking purposes at a murder trial — a punishment the paper and media rights groups consider excessive. more

WAN-IFRA, the Google News Initiative and Mather Economics has published the Google News Initiative Latin America Subscriptions Report, a summary of key takeaways, insights and results from the GNI Latin America Subscriptions Lab. Read takeaways and download the report FREE. more

In June, Apple announced iOS 15 email privacy changes that will radically change the email programs of all publishers. When iOS 15 rolls out in September, publishers will not be able to track who opened their emails on Apple Mail. Here are three steps to take to adapt to the change coming in September. more

The era of the Federal Trade Commission being dismissed as having some bark and little bite appears to be over. FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter wants the agency to get aggressive. She believes that notice and choice — the approach that digital ad and media firms rely on to navigate people’s data privacy and compliance with privacy laws — doesn’t work. more

The Solutions Journalism Network has named award-winning journalist, author and journalism educator Francine Huff as its new director of journalism school partnerships. Huff was most recently the Knight Chair for Student Achievement at Florida A&M University, more