This note is in response to Robert Hernandez'  aka @Webjournalist 

Robert wrote in part in response to a wild, crazy day at ONA10. Robert's part is described here by Cory Bergman

AOL’s Armstrong answers question, ‘Is Patch evil?’

Robert:  

I began Friday at ONA having breakfast with Josh Williams, who did remarkable work at the Las Vegas Sun. He now teaches Web publishing at UC Berkley.

Josh talked about the lightning bug magic that happened during his time in Las Vegas.  He and a talented team did great work because they had a boss "who wrote a big check."  

You did great work in Seattle ...  (remind me to ask you what magic made that happen). And today you are awesome at articulating concepts that will help us navigate this crazy realignment of journalism we're in.  

Your enthusiasm about the tools is always fortified by your passion for journalism, storytelling, ethics. At the center of what you do is a reverence for the legacy we carry.  

You and Josh now teach students who will end up in the newsrooms you describe in your Jerry Maguire post ... (see above...)    where, as you say, "In fact, these amazing people are on your staff right now. But, because you don’t understand or approve it, you don’t see it."

Don't get stuck. Either of you.  Learn what you can there. Teach what you can there.   

But then get back in a newsroom.  Teach managers and executives how to recognize the value of web storytelling.  Teach them how to trust the people they hire.  

We want them to write big checks.  But we also need them to become web journalists too. (There will be no other kind.)  

We need them to feel as passionate as you do.   And we need them with us.