Last spring, the Columbia Journalism Review ran a feature on Vivian Schiller’s tenure at National Public Radio. After a quick read, two things stand out. First, she likes psychiatrist jokes — a proclivity that got her in trouble last October:

She tries not to schedule early-morning meetings. “I need that mind-space time. I get too stressed out if I can’t get to those e-mails,” she said, then added with a smile, “but that’s for me to discuss with my psychiatrist.”

Second, Ron Schiller (no relation) was considered one of her “most significant hires”:

Fresh from the University of Chicago, where his team raised $2.5 billion over four years, he thinks big. “I believe we can raise substantially more for NPR by raising substantially more for public radio,” he told those gathered at the December all-staff meeting. He pledged to work together with member stations to meet the highest-end philanthropists. “Our givers see us as interdependent,” he said.

For more background on Schiller, see here.