Reuters first with news of Sarah Palin's daughter's teenage pregnancy

Thanks to great contacts in the McCain campaign Reuters scored a great global beat when we revealed that Sarah Palin’s unmarried teenage daughter was pregnant. The story on Sept 1 shook the Republican Convention and cast doubt on presidential candidate John McCain’s vetting of potential vice-presidents. McCain later said that he had known that Bristol Palin, 17, was pregnant when he chose Alaskan Governor Palin as his running-mate. The story was splashed across US broadcasters with credit to Reuters and it took the Associated Press an hour to match our story.