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1:25 AM ET, April 7, 2013

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Dominic Patten / Deadline.com:
CNN's ‘Crossfire’ Back In June; Cancelled In 2005  —  After the failed week long experiment of (Get To) The Point and the unsteady The Lead With Jake Tapper, Jeff Zucker is looking for a blast from the past to revive CNN.  The ratings-struggling cable new network is bringing back Crossfire in June, network insiders tell me.
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CNN Looking To Revive ‘Crossfire’  —  CNN is looking to bring back “Crossfire,” TVNewser hears.  The long-running political debate show was canceled in 2005.  —  It isn't entirely clear what time the program would air, though we hear it would likely be a 30-minute format.
Discussion: Politico and The Huffington Post
Reuters:
Exclusive: Former News Corp President Chernin bids $500 million for Hulu  —  (Reuters) - Former News Corp president Peter Chernin bid around $500 million for Hulu, the online video streaming service he helped create in 2007, according to two sources with knowledge of Hulu's sale process.
Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits:
Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business  —  Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off.  —  The fake Twitter follower phenomenon made headlines last summer after Mitt Romney's Twitter following jumped by 100,000 in a matter of days.
Discussion: @martinsfp and Business Insider
Wikimedia France:
French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article  —  Wikimedia France strongly condemns pressure on Wikipedia sysop by French homeland intelligence agency (DCRI)  —  In early March, the DCRI (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur) …
Discussion: ZDNet and Geekosystem
Rezwan / Slate:
Bloggers in Bangladesh Face Threats Online and Off  —  Bangladeshi bloggers form a human chain to protest the detention of three bloggers.  —  This post combines content from two recent posts on Global Voices Advocacy.  —  With political protests raging in the capital city of Dhaka …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Dish Network's Charlie Ergen Is the Most Hated Man in Hollywood  —  His company has been labeled the “worst place to work in America,” he's being sued by all four networks, and his ad-skipping Hopper could decimate TV industry economics as THR examines the troubling potential outcome of the entertainment business' ugliest fight.
Jeremy Greenfield / Digital Book World:
Indie Bookstore Sales of Kobo Ebooks Dwarf Google; Still Small  —  The Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. has sold about 80 e-readers, three tablets and few hundred ebooks with Kobo so far.  —  Just six months after forging a partnership with the American Booksellers Association (ABA) …
Discussion: Forbes
Associated Press:
Journal Register Sale Complete  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The sale of Journal Register, which owns newspapers in 10 states, to 21st CMH Acquisition Co., has been finalized, the company said Friday.  —  The sale stems from a bankruptcy auction that included 21st CMH as its only bidder.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Kelvin MacKenzie dropped from the Telegraph  —  Speculation that a Hillsborough backlash caused the Telegraph to drop Kelvin MacKenzie after his first online column  —  The Daily Telegraph has dropped Kelvin MacKenzie after only his first online column for the newspaper.
Discussion: The Drum
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Meet Penguin Random House, The World's Largest Book Publisher That Will Counter Amazon  —  After the U.S. cleared the deal, the European Commission has officially approved the proposed merger between two of the biggest book publishers in the world, Random House and Penguin.
Discussion: EU Press Room and Guardian
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
Jeff Bezos Invests in Business Insider  —  Jeff Bezos has invested in Business Insider, according to an internal memo we have just obtained.  Here's the memo from Business Insider CEO and Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget: Team, I wanted to share the details of the financing we mentioned last night.
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Discussion: TechCrunch, Gawker and Betabeat
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Cuts at the New York Observer
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Sun journalists ‘badly affected by Leveson’, says readers' editor
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Report: U-T offered ad discounts to causes owner favored
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