Mediagazer: It's Becoming Clear That CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Is, In Fact, Exactly What The Network Needed (Henry Blodget/Business Insider)

12:35 AM ET, April 2, 2014

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

It's Becoming Clear That CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Is, In Fact, Exactly What The Network Needed — Here at Business Insider, we have TVs hanging all over the newsroom, and for the last few days, the one across from me has been showing CNN. — As a result, I can tell you that CNN is, in fact …

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

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Liz Shannon Miller / Gigaom:

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Mark Bergen / AdAge:

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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:

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Madeleine Heffernan / Sydney Morning Herald:

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

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Tara Conlan / Guardian:

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

News Corp wins dismissal of U.S. lawsuit over phone hacking — (Reuters) - News Corp, its Chairman Rupert Murdoch and other top officials have won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit accusing them of defrauding shareholders by concealing widespread, illegal phone hacking at two of its British newspapers.

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

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