Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus? Searching for a better way to cover a campaign

Abstract

This paper will examine the merits of being a reporter “on the bus” during a presidential campaign, at a time when Twitter and other web-driven developments in the media have broken down walls between the political press and the public. A political junkie can follow a campaign minute-by-minute with Twitter, watch it via live-streamed campaign events, or read about it on a growing number of niche news outlets devoted to covering even the most incremental developments in politics.

But as some walls are crumbling, others are going up.