Target: Bin Laden

Entry Number:	137
Entry Category:	New Approaches: Current News Coverage
Title of Broadcast/Webcast:	ABC News Digital
Title of Story or Report:	TARGET: Bin Laden - The Death and Life of Public Enemy #1
Running Time:	NA
Production Company:	ABC News Digital
Date content was originally aired / available for viewing (must be 2011):	June 11, 2011
Original URL (if applicable):	http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/target-bin-laden-death-life-osama-bin-laden/story?id=13786598
Additional Material:	NA
Essay:	TARGET: Bin Laden - The Death and Life of Public Enemy Number One is storytelling in the digital age. The first interactive e-book on the death of Osama bin Laden to be published, the effort represents ABC News’ venture into a new medium – unique, compelling, and entirely exclusive to the digital space. TARGET: Bin Laden features heart-stopping video and photography from the ABC News archives -- from bin Laden’s last interview with a Western news organization and the horrific events of 9/11 to the war in Afghanistan and the white-knuckle moments inside the Situation Room as President Obama and his team watched the operation in Abbottabad unfold. Each chapter is written by ABC News correspondents who covered the story at every turn. ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jake Tapper offered exclusive new information about the secretive kill mission and the administration’s minute by minute response including new details on the mission’s timing and codenames. Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz brings readers into the story with detail-rich description of the Navy SEAL mission while Nick Schifrin provides eyewitness account of the compound hours after the killing. Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross delves into the exhaustive hunt for bin Laden and examines what lies ahead for al Qaeda after the death of its founder as Terry Moran recalls the horrors of September 11, 2011 -- the day that Osama bin Laden became a household name. Readers are enveloped by the textual details and wealth of video, photos and infographics available on their tablets and eReaders including: ABC News exclusive video of the Abbottabad compound shot hours after the mission to kill bin Laden A full hour of archival ABC News video, including moving, on-air reports from the morning of September 11, 2001 50+ compelling photographs of life behind the compound walls, the bin Laden family, behind-the-scenes pictures of administration officials, and an animated simulation of the rescue mission An interactive timeline spanning the life and death of bin Laden, from his birth in 1957, to his early years as a Jihadi in Afghanistan, the creation of al Qaeda, the planning and execution of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the dramatic hunt and eventual death of the terrorist mastermind in May ABC News Digital proudly submits TARGET: Bin Laden – the Death and Life of Public Enemy #1 for your consideration in the category of New Approaches: Current News Coverage.