“I Am Not Reporting Anything to You”

How Fox News, CNN handled the initial Bin Laden news

By Liz Cox Barrett   May 2, 2011 at 06:04 PM

In the event that you were not watching cable news last night, rest assured that Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera and... More

“Obama Osama bin Laden Is Dead”

The Osama/Obama error is an international phenomenon

By Craig Silverman   May 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM

Of all the mistaken headlines, verbal gaffes, and erroneous tweets that resulted from the Sunday announcement that Osama Bin Laden... More

A 60 Percent Osama Bump?

New approval rating raises a flap

By Joel Meares   May 11, 2011 at 03:54 PM

An interesting debate about polling samples is underway this afternoon in the wake of a very encouraging new set of... More

A Tight Deadline, 4,000 Words, Then Ten Years of Waiting

A Q&A with Kate Zernike, Osama bin Laden’s obituarist for the NYT

By Lauren Kirchner   May 5, 2011 at 10:26 AM

When the news of Osama bin Laden’s death broke on Sunday night, every night editor’s dream—or nightmare—came true at The... More

Bin Laden Unnerved by al Qaeda Magazine

By Joel Meares   May 12, 2011 at 03:29 PM

ProPublica’s Sebastian Rotella has spoken to “two U.S. officials familiar with material seized during the raid that killed bin Laden”... More

How State-Funded TV Stations Covered the Osama News

A look at Russia Today, Press TV, France 24, and others

By Linette Lopez   May 5, 2011 at 10:05 AM

Around the world, state-funded satellite TV stations—like Russia Today (RT), Iran’s Press TV, China’s CCTV, France 24 and Al Jazeera—are... More

International News Sites Cover bin Laden’s Death

At varying decibels

By Justin D. Martin   May 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM

CAIRO—One of the benefits of teaching outside the U.S. is that I get to work with polyglot students. In my... More

Notes on Faked Photos

Bin Laden’s death shows the possibilities for manipulation are endless

By Craig Silverman   May 13, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Consider three images from the last couple of weeks: 1. President Barack Obama finishes his address announcing the killing of... More

Osama bin Laden, 54, Public Enemy No. 1

A review of the obits

By Lauren Kirchner   May 2, 2011 at 05:10 PM

Osama bin Laden was the world’s most powerful terrorist. He was also, undeniably, the most famous. And as befits any... More

Schmidle in Secret

New Yorker keeps mum on fact-checking process for bin Laden piece

By Craig Silverman   Aug 12, 2011 at 12:39 PM

Amid the discussion and debate about the sourcing and accuracy of Nicholas Schmidle’s lengthy retelling of the Bin Laden raid... More

Sunday Night Screenshots

How the news websites did bin Laden

By Lauren Kirchner   May 2, 2011 at 01:25 PM

This Monday morning, the headlines practically wrote themselves, and there was no question about which story would get top billing.... More

What a Year!

A foreign editor looks back in wonder at 2011

By Thomas Nagorski   Dec 30, 2011 at 02:41 PM

On a weekend last January I sent Alex Marquardt, our newly minted Mideast correspondent, to cover a protest in Egypt.... More

Where Did You Get Your bin Laden News?

And now, where do you go for analysis?

By The Editors   May 3, 2011 at 03:52 PM

Sometimes the news is so big you just have to have the details right away, and the death of Osama... More