Provincial daily grabs scoop on birth of Brangelina twins

Media on la promenade des anglais, in front of the Lenval Hospital on Monday. NICE, France (AP) — The world's entertainment press tripped over themselves, making embarrassing errors along they way, as they fought to be first to report the biggest celebrity story of the year: the birth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's twins. In the end, the scoop went to a provincial French newspaper. "It was Brad Pitt who chose to give the scoop to Nice-Matin," said assistant editor Olivier Biscaye. "He said to the doctor that the local media should be the first informed about the birth." Nice-Matin put one of its most experienced reporters on the story, Jean-Francois Roubaud, who was given access that the rest of the media pack camped outside the Lenval hospital could only dream about. While security kept out other reporters, Roubaud was... [read full story]