Stanley R. Tiner
Stanley Ray Tiner (born 1942) has been since May 2000 the executive editor and vice president of The Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi. He previously served briefly as the executive editor of The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City and as editor of the Press-Register in Mobile, Alabama. The Sun Herald under Tiner's editorship won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for public service because of its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Tiner dedicated the Pulitzer gold medal to the people of South Mississippi for their perseverance in the wake of such massive adversity.
When he was with the Press-Register in 1995, Tiner was a judge on a five-person panel to select the winning editorial for the Pulitzer Prize that year.
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