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NBC News had to make a correction over Twitter last night after it had Tweeted incorrect information shortly before the evening newscasts. The network reported that the Sanford, FL police department had issued a request for the arrest of George Zimmerman.

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Per FL state attorney’s office: Sanford PD have filed a capias(request to arrest) George Zimmerman on charges related to #TrayvonMartin

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Clarification: NBC News confirmed with FL State attorney’s office that PD sent a capias (request to arrest) Zimmerman soon after shooting.

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(If you retweeted first Tweet about capias, please RT follow up. Important to put timing in context.) #TrayvonMartin

Speaking of Tweets, here’s an important one that just crossed the wire from the ABC News Twitter feed.

One of the co-founders of The Huffington Post, Ken Lerer (pictured), is launching a new news startup. Rather than try and compete with his former colleagues at HuffPost, Lerer and his team have their sights set a bit higher: on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel.

AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka reports:

The service, which will launch this summer in advance of the U.S. Presidential elections, will use a mix of live streaming video and taped reports, and a mix of professionally produced segments along with contributions from amateurs.

While BedRocket has landed four YouTube “channel” deals for its programming, the new venture won’t be confined to any particular platform. Lerer and company have been promoting the idea that the service will rely heavily on social media like Facebook and Twitter for distribution.

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“CBS This Morning” has launched a free app for iPhone and iPad. All of the features one would expect from a news app, including text stories, video, photos and Twitter feeds from anchors and correspondents. It also features “The Rundown,” a breakdown of the day’s news, as well as local weather,which is fitting as the actual “CBS This Morning” doesn’t have a weather anchor, leaving that to affiliates.

CNN is releasing a “digital magazine”–its first–for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The magazine, “Slavery’s Last Stronghold” is part of the channel’s “Freedom Project” features video, text and interactive components. A special report will air on-air and online, with additional components accessible through the app.

Time lists the best Twitter feeds of 2012, and Romenesko lists all of those in the “News & Information” category. Among them: CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Univision’s Jorge Ramos, NBC’s “Today,” BBC Breaking, Al Jazeera English, Lisa Ling, NY1′s Pat Kiernan and our sister blog GalleyCat.

FishbowlLA’s Matthew Fleischer spent his Tuesday at the 2012 TV Summit put on by Variety and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. The event included Hollywood bigs talking about the present and future of TV … which won’t always be on TV. Some of his takeaway:

• “We call ourselves the ‘fifth network.’ We’re TV on steroids.” – Yahoo! VP Erin McPherson

• “I do not have CNN’s budget, let’s get that out of the way. But we feel that people are beyond being talked to, they want to be talked with. ” – AOL Studios’ Gabriel Lewis on HuffPost Streaming Network.

• “We’re not dependent on any one show. That’s the place we are and we need to be to be successful.” – HBO’s Michael Lombardo on the cancellation of “Luck”

• “Shitty TV is not must see.” – 20th Television chairman Dana Walden on NBC.

CBS’s “60 Minutes” passed this test with flying colors.

After a fascinating two-part Lesley Stahl story on the rare condition of face blindness Sunday night, 60MinutesOvertime featured an online test to help viewers determine whether they are face blind or “super recognizers,” people who are the opposite of face blind who never forget a face.

That test helped the site draw record views Monday. The single-day high was part of a +820% two-day jump in streams for March 18-19 versus the same period last year and a +363% increase over the webcast’s average Sunday-Monday streams season to date.

As for the TV broadcast, the newsmagazine was the 8th most-watched show of the week, drawing 10.8 million Total Viewers.

The Wall Street Journal profiles Glenn Beck‘s web-TV service GBTV, as well as his larger media company Mercury Radio Arts. There are a number of takeaways, including that the channel will eventually go 24/7, but the most interesting thing is the numbers, which are surprisingly robust for a still-fresh web venture that isn’t even a year old.

GBTV, which jumped on the scene in September, is expected to bring in at least $40 million in revenue this year, supported by advertising and more than 300,000 subscribers paying as much as $9.95 a month for full access to GBTV, according to a person close to the company. While it is significantly smaller than his audience at Fox News, it’s still more than an established network like CNBC, which drew an average of 189,000 viewers over the course of the total day in February, according to Nielsen.

Overall Beck’s company is expected to generate $80 million in revenue this year. On another note, former CNN and Fox News anchor Kiran Chetry will be serving as a guest news anchor on GBTV this Friday, according to a post on her Facebook page.

CNN is in talks to potentially buy the social media news site Mashable, someone familiar with the negotiations tells TVNewser. The talks were first reported by Reuters’ Felix Salmon, who says that the deal could be worth north of $200 million:

There lots of caveats here. The talks are still ongoing, and may fall through, though they are characterized as serious.

A CNN purchase of Mashable makes sense on a few levels, but would also be rife with risk. We break it down after the jump.

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Former CNN host Larry King will be returning to the interviewer’s chair on an Internet TV network backed by the richest man in the world, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

The network, Ora.tv, will feature a variety of shows of different genres and lengths, and will stream them directly to computers, phones, tablets and yes, TVs.

King is a co-founder of Ora.tv, and revealed some more details to the New York Times‘ Brian Stelter. Not surprisingly, his new show will look a lot like his old one. His wife Shawn may also have a role:

In a separate interview, Mr. King, a co-founder of the network, said his new program would partly resemble “Larry King Live,” the hourlong interview program that was on CNN from 1985 to 2010. CNN replaced “Larry King Live” with a new interview program, “Piers Morgan Tonight,” early last year.

Mr. King said he was “restless” and missed covering big stories: “I run into people everyday who tell me they miss my show. And a lot of times I miss it too.”

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The Yahoo!-ABC News network reached more than 89 million people last month, making it the top source of online news in February, ABC News announced today.

Traffic to ABC News digital content has increased 170%, and video streams have increased 173%, since the alliance was announced in October, according to ABC. Digital videos were streamed more than 100 million times in February.

The “Good Morning America” site has tripled its monthly traffic and grown 25% each month since the October launch.

“As we chart a course to be the number one in news and information, we’re just getting started delivering on the promise of this powerful partnership,” ABC News president Ben Sherwood said in a statement.

The new uReport assignment page

Fox News has just launched a significant redesign of its user-generated content website uReport.

The new iteration of the site will request specific content around news stories, and features an interactive map so that users know what is happening near them. FNC will also use social media–such as Twitter and Facebook–to post assignments for users, and will eventually utilize mobile location services to target users that are near news events.

“A misnomer about these things is that you put it up because you are looking for the next great breaking news thing,” Jeff Misenti, VP and GM of digital for Fox News tells TVNewser. “You know what, if you get that shot from an event, that’s great, but I know that is going to be such a small percentage of the time.”

What I don’t want it to be is like some other  citizen journalism sites, where it is almost like everybody is creating their own infomercial, it is almost like ‘I make teddy bears at home, here is my picture…’ that is not what I am looking for. I want everything to be an extension to content or programming,” Misenti added.

In that respect, uReport is seeking the user’s perspective on the news, rather than using their content as the news itself. Producers on FNC programs will be able to request specific content around segments that are in the pipeline:

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