From a Q & A with Jim Brady and the Colombia Journalism Review:
The line I keep using is that in any newsroom structure, the Web has to be positioned in a way that it can do things that will make the print side uncomfortable. It’s got to have enough autonomy that it can push into technologies in new areas and make the newsroom go, ‘Do we really want to be on Twitter?’ You’ve got to take some risks, you’ve got to play on some new playgrounds. And when you have to run all those questions through a print structure, often the answer is no, or it takes a really long time to get to an answer.
As fancy as the web is, it can’t replace strong, old-fashioned journalism. The trick is getting that caliber of reporting to work for readers who are used to the Internet as their main source of information.