Spain and the Netherlands played, with 700m watching on

“A global TV audience of more than 700 million watched yesterday’s World Cup final, according to the tournament’s organizers.” — New York Post

Porn rivals merge? Penthouse makes play for Playboy

“Hugh Hefner wants to take Playboy private, and with a stock that has been languishing for the last four years it sure seems like investors should just let him.” — Forbes

Internode refuses child p-rn blacklist

”It covers a tiny proportion of the content that would need to be blocked for it to be effective and has already been shown to contain URLs of legal content that Australians would expect to access.” — The Age

The presses stop to protest Kashmir censorship

“The owners of newspapers in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir have suspended production because of curbs imposed by the government.” — BBC News

APN needs a new chief

“Mr Hopkins surprised the market yesterday by announcing that he will leave APN in December — 12 months before his current contract expires — after running the trans-Tasman newspaper, radio and outdoor advertising company for more than eight years.” — The Australian

The death of the American sportswriter

“I realized, maybe a little too late, that the profession I love isn’t slowly dying, it’s already dead.” — Huffington Post