Stanley R. Tiner - Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

In 2006, Tiner addressed an American Press Institute seminar in Reston, Virginia], in which he discussed how The Sun Herald covered the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. He invited media representatives to come to the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area to see firsthand the impact of the storm. API president Andrew B. Davis noted that newspaper executives need "leadership skills to deal with a wide spectrum of chaotic management scenarios," as the devastation of Katrina so proved.