FBLA EXCLUSIVE: The Anatomy of a "Baby Story" (Or, Who Determines Who Gets The Scoop)

Samantha Harris can’t help it if she’s everybody’s “It Girl.” The Dancing with the Stars hostess works for ABC. But she’s also a correspondent for E!. So when she announced her pregnancy today, who got the scoop?

People
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“People breaks a lot of baby news and I have never been in the magazine, so this was a fun opportunity. We were excited that they wanted to tell the news in print,” Harris told FBLA.

It’s a fluid world of “breaking news,” where everyone gets to “break” the story their own way, Harris said.

“Of course, for broadcast on television — we wanted my family at E! to be the ones to tell everyone first,” she said.

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