The NPR sting video which led to the departure of CEO Vivian Schiller as well as the resignation of the man in the video, former executive Ron Schiller. It has also, according to 22 journalists from NPR News, “done real damage” to the entire organization. In an open letter, they write that they were “appalled” by Ron Schiller’s comments caught on tape.

For those who have wondered how news operations shift gears and plan coverage for disasters like the one in Haiti, National Public Radio’s Ombudsman Alicia Shepard has posted a detailed blow-by-blow of how NPR began its coverage of the Haiti earthquake, as well as its attempts to get reporters and producers on the ground in Port Au Prince.

In the age of the Verified Account, we expect our celebrities and media personalities to be on Twitter. It’s both the quickest and easiest way for them to reach their audiences and it provides a small window into the minutiae of their everyday lives. So we’ve tallied and ranked the top 25 media figures by number of Twitter followers and the results, if not surprising, are telling.

This weekend at the D&G show in Milan, four prestigious fashion bloggers (Scott Schuman, Tommy Ton, Garance Doré, and Bryan Boy) were given precedence over the rest of the attendees with laptops and desks placed in front of their chairs. According to Mr. Ton, the street-style shutterbug, famed photographer Mario Testino was seated next to [...]

How much is Katie Couric worth to you? If you are a fan of Couric’s style (on great display this week during her Glenn Beck interview) or the CBS Evening News, or if you happen to be its President, the answer is a great deal. To the tune of $15 million to be precise. However! If you happend to be a fan of NPR, as well as, say, someone who is consistently won over (beaten) down by their pledge drives, she might be worth a great deal more.

What does it mean to have a million Twitter followers? Does is matter? And why is it similar to attending your own wedding? On NPR’s Weekend Edition yesterday, Shirky gave a great explanation about how and why Twitter is such a powerful tool for those in the media world beyond telling people about the contents of your breakfast.

A whole lot of people wake up on Saturday mornings with Scott Simon. Simon is the long-time host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, and the fact that he boasts 800,000-plus twitter followers is a small measure of the program’s reach. Today he answers our Five Quick Questions.

This is not your father’s NPR. This NPR wants to compete with the big boys. This morning NPR rolled out a redesigned NPR.org — a booming answer to anybody who thinks that NPR news content will never outgrow the morning and evening car radio commuter traffic.

Mediaite ran into Scott Simon at last week’s Personal Democracy Forum and he was kind enough to chat with us. (Actually we didn’t so much run into him as recognize his voice across a room during a panel and follow him out the door. Some people get excited over Anderson Cooper, some people get excited over NPR hosts!)