Media platform BitTorrent will launch BitTorrent News at the Republican National Convention on July 18.

Bittorrent News, which will be a live-streaming TV news network on BitTorrent Live, is touting itself as “an informed, independent voice on the news in real-time as news breaks.”

Wednesday’s announcement comes a week after BitTorrent added former CNN producer Harrison Bohrman as its first-ever news director. He was a senior development producer at Vice’s network Viceland after having spent five years covering presidential elections and breaking news stories as a writer and producer at CNN.

“Television news has been stagnating for some time,” said Erik Schwartz, VP of media for BitTorrent. “It’s having trouble appealing to a generation that grew up online. We’re building BitTorrent News to solve that problem. We are using superior data and tools and the Silicon Valley ethos of lean startup to build a nimble news organization that will learn quickly from user behavior.”

The team includes Michael Shure, former chief political correspondent for now-shuttered Al Jazeera America; James Reinl, journalist most recently with Al Jazeera English; Rita Chan, producer most recently with Al Jazeera and Fox News; Alice Anil, a documentary filmmaker and journalist who covers policy for Know Bulls–t; Justin Robert Young, a podcaster, journalist and comedian; and Doc Stodden, professor of political science.

The format for the conventions will include play-by-play commentary on all developments and speeches, plus guest commentary. There will be ten to 12 hours of live coverage every day during the conventions with each morning starting with two hours of live programming.

“We are marrying the Internet’s principles of open access to information with society’s need for unfettered — and unfiltered — access to news,” said Jeremy Johnson, co-CEO of BitTorrent. “Not to be too grandiose, but I’m really excited about our News initiative. I think what we’re doing is important for the world.”

BitTorrent News will be covering other areas such as action and alternative sports aimed to empower progressive athletes from outside the mainstream. The first of these athletes is motorsports racer Sara Price.

BitTorrent News will be available on the multichannel app BitTorrent Live, and is currently available on Apple TV and OS X with other platforms being introduced soon.