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O.J. Simpson Book Gets Second Printing (AP)
With O.J. Simpson in jail on charges of robbery and other felonies, the best-selling book about his alleged murder confession is getting a second printing. Beaufort Books has commissioned an additional 50,000 copies of Simpson's If I Did It, the ghostwritten account of how the ex-football star would have murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. GalleyCat: Having OJ get himself arrested over the weekend is the best publicity the book could get.

Minnesota Publisher Ordered Out in Newspaper Feud (AP)
A judge on Tuesday ordered Star Tribune publisher Par Ridder to leave his job for a year, a sweeping victory for the rival St. Paul Pioneer Press, which had accused its former publisher of misusing proprietary information. Ridder's actions when he joined the Star Tribune in March caused the Pioneer Press "irreparable harm," Judge David C. Higgs wrote. E&P: How Par Ridder drew fire.

Consent Decree with the Open Web Shuts Down Times Select (PressThink)
Jay Rosen: Charging for columnists only made sense as a political action within the conflicted state of the Times, a compromise among contending factions and a show of support for certain ideas that spoke to parts of the base. "People will pay for Times journalism because Times journalism is much better than what those people can get for free..." spoke to the newsroom base. TimesSelect made sense in that world. Content Bridges: The New York Times' decision to eliminate TimesSelect leaves its emerging online business in a more precarious state, writes Ken Doctor. LAT: Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones executives are debating a key strategic question: Should the Journal fall in line with the rest of the industry and make its 11-year-old paid-subscription Web site free? WSJ: Dow Jones executives have made the case that there is value in keeping the Journal's Web site — with its 983,000 subscribers — at least partially a paid site.

Google Program Enlists Mini-Sites as Selling Tool for Advertisers (NYT)
Google is seizing on the popularity of widgets — small online tools that function like mini-Web sites — for its latest push into advertising. The online giant will announce today a Gadget Ads program that will provide tools for advertisers to run widget ads in Google's AdSense network. Mediaweek: The search giant has already been testing the new Gadget Ads with more than 50 brands this past summer, including Sierra Mist, Intel, and Honda.

How the Post Keeps Gays From the Newsroom (Portfolio)
Jeff Bercovici: How do gay employees of the New York Post feel about working at an institution that portrays homosexuals as a bunch of whiny, effeminate sodomites? Is the newsroom as uncomfortable a place for them as the paper's frequent gay-baiting might suggest? I figured I'd ask some of the Post's prominent gay writers and editors. Unfortunately, there aren't any. E&P: The New York Times Co. is the most gay-friendly chain in the newspaper industry, and the only one to earn a "perfect score," according to the latest Corporate Equality Index of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

Some CNBC Staffers Are Pining for Ailes (NYO)
Ted David has worked at CNBC since the business network launched in 1989. He likes his colleagues. Respects his bosses. Enjoys his current gig as a senior anchor of CNBC Business Radio. But when his contract with the network is up this spring, David will cast his eyes longingly in the direction of a fledging rival. He would like someday soon to work at the Fox Business Network.

In Touch, Life & Style Sharing Top Editors (WWD)
After Bauer Publications gave Richard Spencer double duty as editor-in-chief of both weeklies In Touch and Life & Style, Spencer decided to send in for reinforcements. Spencer on Tuesday made his two In Touch executive editors, Dan Wakeford and Michelle Lee, editors of both In Touch and Life & Style. Wakeford and Lee will work alongside Life & Style deputy editor Mark Coleman and editor Samantha Meiler.

Parsons Says He's Happy to Keep Time Inc., AOL (AdAge)
CEO Dick Parsons defended Time Warner's businesses from questions about spinning off one or another of the conglomerate's units. On spinning of Time Inc., for example, he said he didn't anticipate doing that. The magazine division is growing again, helped mightily by online advertising as many print publishers struggle to sell pages, he said.

New Book Shows Jack Welch's *&$@ Leadership Style (NYP)
A new tome about former GE chief Jack Welch, written by former Welch speech writer Bill Lane, is said to be largely positive, praising Welch's ability as a great communicator. However, Lane doesn't try to tone down the salty language that punctuated many of Welch's behind-the-scenes moments — and he's determined to keep his former boss from getting his hands on the manuscript in advance.

Fox Seeks Shows That Appeal to Everyone (LAT)
Should the network, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media empire, cast a wide net with traditional shows and established actors that appeal to the populous crowd that flocks to Fox's American Idol? Or should it be true to its roots and offer irreverent fare loved by the young viewers that advertisers pay a premium for? Already, Fox's whiskers are getting a little gray.

Reconstructing Frey (NYO)
If A Million Little Pieces taught us anything, it's that readers love a good tale of redemption, and now that James Frey is back with a new novel, the people who have agreed to help him sell it are going all out to convince the world that New York has forgiven Frey for his sins.

Fox Business Network Adds Four More Anchors (TV Week)
Fox Business Network continues to fill out its talent ranks as the cable channel's Oct. 15 launch date nears. Fox News executive VP Kevin Magee on Tuesday announced four more anchors: Peter Barnes, Jenna Lee, Nicole Petallides, and Cody Willard. They join the previously announced anchors David Asman, Dagen McDowell, Cheryl Casone, Stuart Varney, and Rebecca Gomez.

Unshackled: Why One Reporter Left a Newspaper to Write Books (CJR)
Linda Perlstein: When I left a reporting job at the Washington Post several years ago, I lost an institution I loved — not to mention free LexisNexis and an affiliation that pretty much guaranteed that my phone calls were returned right away. But I gained the opportunity to immerse myself in a project that I'm sure could never have been created for the newspaper.

Civilizing the Web's Ethical Wildness (CSM)
Mark Lange: We are still sorting out the Web's social and ethical implications. Its greatest virtue — and the source of its spam, spyware, viruses, and vices — is as a distributed medium, resistant to central control. This, in turn, creates an imperative of self-governance that, so far and too often, isn't being met.

Remember CNBC's Melissa Francis From Little House on the Prairie? (Marketwatch)
Francis doesn't include her childhood TV fame anywhere in her official biography. "The only people who recognize me from [Little House] these days are CNBC viewers who are watching and suddenly make the connection," she mused. "Then they say it's nice to see a child actor who didn't end up in rehab or robbing their local dry cleaner."