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

Former President Donald Trump, who has complained about censorship by social media giants, filed class action lawsuits Wednesday against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Google Sundar Pichai. more

Much of the content on USA TODAY will still be free. But you'll find a selection of stories each day marked "subscriber only." These will be exclusive investigations, sophisticated visual explainers, thought-provoking takes on the news and immersive storytelling. more

In April, the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media announced the hiring of alumna Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 project, for the position of Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. The journalism school recommended Hannah-Jones for full tenure; a month later, NC Policy Watch broke the news that UNC’s board of trustees had rejected the recommendation, offering her a five-year contract instead. more

Some of your team members can’t wait to regroup in your headquarters. Others hope to work remotely. As you create your post-pandemic work structure, you are navigating a number of important goals: high quality in whatever you produce, high performance on your staff (both individuals and teams), growth and innovation, and engaged employees who enjoy their work and feel they truly belong. more