New York Daily News Was Tipped on Bin Laden Hours Before News Broke

Kevin Convey, Editor-in-Chief of The New York Daily News, says that the paper received a tip about three hours before President Obama broke the news that Osama bin Laden was killed.

Convey told Adweek, “We got a tip around eight, nine o’clock, from an FDNY source, that [bin Laden] was dead.” As you know, most of the media didn’t even begin to guess that the big news was about bin Laden until right before Obama’s announcement at 11:40 pm.

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