New media showed its chops in coverage of the Discovery gunman story that unfolded yesterday in a Maryland suburb, but sparked some tension between new and old media as well.

First, Twitter is largely credited with spreading the news of the man who took hostages in the Silver Spring building.

But also showing its strength is the new D.C. hyperlocal website, TBD.com, which offered great streaming video of the events, picked up by The Washington Post, among others.

The Post took some heat, however, for streaming the video on its website, but covering up the TBD logo with a big Washington Post image.

TBD Director of Community Engagement Steve Buttry offered his views in an e-mail to thenextweb.com:

I should be clear that they are allowed to use our feed," Buttry wrote back. “That is a continuing agreement between the Post and NewsChannel 8 that predates TBD (in fact it dates to Jim Brady's days at washingtonpost.com. But the agreement calls for the Post to show our branding on the feed and that agreement did not change when NC8 became TBD. Before [NYT media editor David Carr's] tweet, Jim had already asked the Post to remove its labeling from our feed (but they moved pretty quickly once Carr noted it).”

Post editors did not immediately return calls seeking comment today.