USA Today will launch the Best American Destinations online sweepstakes May 28, with travel prizes provided by Orbitz.com. The sweepstakes coincides with USA Today's expanded travel Web site (E&P, May 26), a redesigned and enhanced one-stop destination for expert travel-planning information, news, advice, apps, and conversation.

NewspaperDirect named Nikolay Malyarov as its vice president of publishing and legal affairs with the job of optimizing the content distribution company?s mobile applications and new distribution channels.

In Dalton, Ga., Daily Citizen carriers will begin delivering library books to homebound residents in July, restarting a Northwest Regional Library System service provided by a library van. Covering three counties, the deliveries will be made every other week. The Daily Citizen reported library staffers will place requested books in containers for carrier pick-up. The independent-contractor carriers are paid on a per-piece basis and will deliver books in the afternoon, not with the morning Daily Citizen

Readership of The Wall Street Journal has jumped 20% since News Corp. acquired the paper in 2007, according to a new study by The Media Audit. During the same period, readership of The New York Times remained higher but flat.

Police Monday charged Bismarck man with carjacking a Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune employee and robbing a convenience store. The 25-year-old is accused of ordering the driver from his car at gunpoint at about 3:45 Saturday morning. About 15 minutes later the driver called police from a gas station, while a clerk at another gas station called in a robbery in progress. The suspect's description in the cases matched.

Boston Globe Media has hired Mike Wallace as executive director, digital advertising strategies. The former Boston.com staffer is responsible for developing programs and initiatives for digital advertising across The Boston Globe, Boston.com and related media outlets.