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# Iraqi Editorial Cartoonist Wins International Competition: Cartoon by Mohammed Al-Adwani shows an Iraqi newspaper delivery boy who has to work with four bodyguards by his side. Has link to cartoon. (But he is identified as Iranian there.) [E&P]

# A BBC Roundup of some Iraqi Blogs [bbc]

# Al Neuharth, USA TODAY Founder: "When Murdoch completes his deal for Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, the mood about newspaper-oriented media companies across the USA will shift from survive to thrive." [usat]

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