Online reporters, editors, and producers trailed by print and TV reporters covering the coverage put on a technological demonstration as politicians participated in Webcasts and online chats. That's a useful distinction.
Much Internet media are conventional-type media that use the Internet as a means of dissemination.
It's clear that the Internet has allowed print publications to adapt to a 24-hour news cycle. The daily convention publications put out by National Journal and the Weekly Standard were available online to a national audience. The New Republic published a daily convention diary online, in addition to the coverage in its weekly print edition. Newspapers like the Los Angeles Times , the New York Times , and the Washington Post published, in effect, afternoon and evening editions online filled with convention news. Ultimately, the Web allows print to compete with the immediacy of television.