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Ryan Seacrest to Host Emmys (Variety)
The Seacrest announcement caps weeks of speculation over who might get the hosting gig — or if Fox would opt to go without an emcee. Hosts are usually announced earlier in the production schedule for big kudofests like the Emmys, which will be broadcast in less than a month. Ultimately, Seacrest's experience hosting American Idol made him the most logical candidate. WaPo: This is very late in the game for the TV Academy and Fox to be announcing the host of the television industry's annual slap-itself-on-the-back show.

September Vogue Uses Web Tie-In to Score Record Ad Pages (NYT)
The "extra-extra large!" issue arrives on newsstands today more than 100 pages fatter than last year and seems to provide evidence of a healthy appetite for print advertising in the fashion industry. Most of the pages were sold with the added value of an Internet feature that Vogue is introducing today: A broadband channel that aims to serve as both an entertainment destination and a shopping Web site.

Countdown Tests NBC Waters (B&C)
The primetime show on MSNBC hosted by Keith Olbermann will make the jump to the original Peacock Network this Sunday night. A special edition of the show will air at 7 p.m., leading up to NBC's Sunday Night Football preseason NFL matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers.

Unauthorized Bio Paints Couric as Jealous, Manipulative, Bullying Diva (NYDN)
The most shocking tale in author Edward Klein's unauthorized biography, Katie: The Real Story, is that Katie Couric's marriage to Jay Monahan was on the rocks long before he died of cancer in 1998. Quoting one of his numerous unnamed sources, Klein claims the couple had grown so far apart that the "only thing that stood between Katie and divorce was her fear of negative publicity."

Teamsters to Protest at Tribune Special Meeting Today (Chicago Tribune)
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters union said it intends to bring a delegation of "union leaders and newspaper workers" to Tribune Co.'s special shareholder meeting today. The union contends the structure of the buyout means workers will assume the financial and operating risk, while Zell gains control of the company through a relatively modest cash contribution.

Publishers May Give in and Guarantee Rate Base by Issue (AdAge)
There's a few months to go before MediaVest's staredown with the magazine industry hits a critical juncture, but it looks as if some publishers are starting to blink. In May the media buyer demanded that publishers guarantee each issue's circulation instead of averaging multiple issues like usual — and said it would pull clients' ads from magazines that don't go along by 2008.

Project Runway to Start Licensing (NYP)
Aspiring designers will soon be able to cut their creations from Project Runway-branded patterns and stitch them together using fabrics and sewing machines also carrying the hit TV show's name. Scheduled to begin airing its fourth season on Bravo, Project Runway has branched into licensing for the first time.

For Some Hollywood Fare, Radio Mini-Ads Are a Perfect Fit (LAT)
Miniature radio ads, spanning just a few seconds in length, are a hit in Hollywood, says market leader Clear Channel Communications Inc., which launched the spots known as "blinks" and "adlets" last year. The company said at least 20 national advertisers had tried out the shorter format since the ads were launched last summer. Nearly half of those are entertainment companies, Clear Channel said.

Rolling Stone Vets Plan Fall Reunion in San Francisco (Mediaweek)
Lisa Granatstein: Call it the "Burning Jann Festival" or "The Rolling Stone San Francisco Has Be-in" — one of these just might end up being the tagline for a fall reunion of former Rolling Stone staffers. The event is open to anyone who worked for the iconic magazine from its humble beginnings in San Francisco in 1967 until its move to New York a decade later.

A Few Tips for Media Types Who Strive to Do Wrong Better (AdAge)
Nat Ives: If there's one thing the media business does well, it's behave badly. I'm not talking about the kind of stuff attacked by groups such as the American Family Association, which sent members a letter this month blasting Redbook for encouraging a "pagan, hedonistic lifestyle." No, I'm talking about a mess of more plausibly dubious practices. But even if we do wrong a lot, we could always do wrong better.

Fear and Loathing: Details Coverlines (Radar)
Remember when your favorite maybe-gay magazine gently held your well-moisturized hand and walked you through tips on style, behavior and good consumerism? Details, it seems, has taken a turn and become an angry, old queen. Here's a survey of recent headlines from Condé Nast's metrosexual stepchild. One nagging mom's enough for us, thank you!

Brownridge Couldn't Be Kept Down on the Farm (MIN)
The Alpha Media Group purchase of Dennis is a welcome back to the business after Kent Brownridge seemingly "retired" in November 2005. But "farm living" in northwest Virginia proved not to be the life for him. "Being there fulltime from just weekends-only was a big change that I was not ready for," he says. "I got bored, I sold the farm, and I returned to New York with the plan to find financial partners and buy a magazine company."

Russian Journalist Released After Being Held for 46 Days at Psychiatric Clinic (AP via Newsday)
Larisa Arap was forcibly sent to hospital last month in what opposition activists said was revenge for exposing alleged abuse of children in a local psychiatric hospital. Her case was taken up by human rights activists, who saw in it echoes of the Soviet-era practice of locking up dissidents in psychiatric hospitals. Committee to Protect Journalists: Arap told CPJ the doctors made her sign an agreement to continue her prescribed treatment at home, but did not explain their decision to release her. When asked how she felt, Arap replied: "How do you expect me to feel after all I've been through?" Baltimore Sun Editorial: Arap's family said she was beaten and injected with mind-blurring drugs.

What Makes a Paper 'Alternative' These Days Anyway? (E&P)
Mark Fitzgerald: There's a class war going on in the alternative press. Alternative papers are moving in several different directions — and they all have something snide to say about where the other guy is going. This is an intramural contest among papers that consider themselves the "real" alternatives, not those free papers created by mainstream dailies they dismiss as "faux alternatives."

How TV Is Empowering the Women of India (Slate)
A new study shows that television is having a distinctly helpful effect on women, at least in rural India, which admittedly doesn't have America's half-century of experience with the medium, or 300 channels to surf through. For millions of women in developing countries, the benefits of TV may be substantive rather than frothy.