THE death of Osama bin Laden provoked scenes of jubilation in America. Coming in the middle of the spring, the reaction in the Middle East was mixed.

The snuffing of Osama Bin Laden has already filled the Snake River Canyon with a torrent of coverage from newspapers, the Web, and television. The news output will only expand in the coming days, and as it does, remain skeptical about it. As we know from t

Some television news watchers had already heard the news of Osama bin Laden’s death through social media.

Fevered speculation exploded on Twitter before officials relayed the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

NEW YORK – White House reporters sharing a laugh with President Obama on Saturday found themselves racing online and soberly appearing on camera 24 hours later to cover an East Room statement that will go down in history: Osama bin Laden is dead.

Posted at 01:04 AM ET, 05/02/2011 By Anup Kaphle, Amanda Zamora and Katie Rogers Osama Bin Laden smiles as he sits in a cave in the Jalalabad region of Afghanistan in 1988.The al Qaeda leader was killed in a US-led operation inside Pakistan on May 1, 2011. (- - AFP) Sept. 11 mastermind and head of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, has been killed in an operation inside Pakistan, President Obama announced at the White House. The Internet went abuzz with speculations about the death of the al-Qaeda l...

I remember September 11th the way my parents’ generation remembers the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Except that we invariably ask each other the question, “Where were you when you first saw it on TV?” (for me it was through the window of a restaurant in Union Station, in downtown Toronto. I was on my way to a client meeting). 9/11 was so profound that my husband and I discussed whether it was responsible to bring children into such a world. In the end, we decided that hope in the face o...

Nearly 10 years after the September 11 attacks planned by Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader was captured and killed by American forces. The word first spread on Twitter, then on network and cable news. This morning, the news dominates major front pages. Below you can view those pages, with thanks to @ronterrell, who shared links to many on Twitter. For perspective, here is a gallery of front pages from September 11 and 11, 2001 and another on the first anniversary of the attacks. iPad ap...

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Twitter does not have many users in Abbottabad in Pakistan, where Facebook is apparently more the social platform of choice. But it has enough to break the first sounds of gunfire in the fight which was to eventually lead to the death of Osama bin Laden. Sohaib Athar, with his @VirtualReality Twitter handle, is not the future of news he is the present of news. Mainstream media has in truth never really lived where events actually happen, unless it is in the centers of power where information...

Image of bloodied man picked up by British newspapers has been circulating online for two years guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 May 2011 12.03 BST An image purporting to show Osama bin Laden's bloody corpse, right, is a composite of two separate images, left and centre. Photograph: twitpic An image apparently showing a dead Osama bin Laden broadcast on Pakistani television and picked up by British newspaper websites is a fake.The bloodied image of a man with matted hair and a blank, half-opened eye...

Both the  Daily Mail  and the Daily Mirror today – among with several others in the US ( including the New York Post , which credits the image to AP) and other countries – published an image purporting to be that of the dead Osama Bin Laden. It clearly wasn’t. Any journalist with a drop of cynicism w

Oh dear. Three mix ups between Obama and Osama in these news reports from , and the on the killing of Bin Laden.

Tagged: barack obama, breaking news, keith urbahn, osama bin laden, pakistan, sohaib athar, tweets, twitter [View the story "Timeline of Tweets Around Death of Osama Bin Laden" on Storify] Did you see any other key tweets around the news of Bin Laden's killing? Share them in the comments below and I'll add them to the timeline above. Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Associat...

Man unknowingly liveblogs Bin Laden operation CAIRO (AP) — A computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town in the early hours of the morning Monday, did what any social-media addict would do: he began sending messages to the social networking site Twitter.With his tweets, 33-year-old Sohaib Athar, who moved to the sleepy town of Abbottabad to escape the big city, became in his own words "the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it."Soon...

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