SED: How can I replace a newline (\n)?

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Published on 2009-08-09T19:10:10Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 2:03 UTC
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I unsuccesfully tried:

sed 's#/\n# #g' file
sed 's#^$# #g' file

How to fix it?

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