This year’s political conventions gave host-city newspapers a chance to dig into their multimedia bag of tricks as they worked to cover the major national events from multiple perspectives.

The Denver Post, (Denver) Rocky Mountain News and St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press used everything at their disposal to generate up-to-the-minute news and information.

And with events during the four-day extravaganzas ranging from landmark acceptance speeches to political protests, there was no shortage of beats or flow of news.