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-'''Stanley Ray Tiner''', known a;sp as as '''Stan Tiner''' (born August 22, 1942), is the former executive editor and vice president of ''The Sun Herald,'' the newspaper in Gulfport and  Biloxi, [[Mississippi]], a post he held from May 2000 to August 31, 2015.<ref name=tinerretires/> 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|Mobile]], [[Alabama]].
+'''Stanley Ray Tiner''', known also as as '''Stan Tiner''' (born August 22, 1942), is the former executive editor and vice president of ''The Sun Herald,'' the newspaper in Gulfport and  Biloxi, [[Mississippi]], a post he held from May 2000 to August 31, 2015.<ref name=tinerretires/> 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|Mobile]], [[Alabama]].
 Under Tiner's editorship, ''The Sun Herald'' won the 2006 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for public service because of its coverage of [[Hurricane Katrina]].<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/year.pl?type=w&year=1970&FormsButton2=Retrieve The Pulitzer Prizes for 1970<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Tiner dedicated the Pulitzer gold medal to the people of South Mississippi for their perseverance in the wake of massive adversity.<ref name="poynter">{{cite web|url=http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=75&aid=100256 |title=This Week in Media: The Pulitzer Slump, NYT Stock, Video News Releases and more &#124; Poynter. |publisher=poynter.org|accessdate=December 13, 2014}}</ref>

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 ==A political reporter==
-Tiner began his newspaper career at the since defunct afternoon daily, ''The Texarkana Daily News'' in Texarkana, [[Texas|Texas]], and the ''Minden Press-Herald'', a small daily which specializes in local news, in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in his native Webster Parish. He was the ''Press-Herald'' managing editor from September 1969 until March 1970, when he left to join the staff of ''The Shreveport Times''.<ref name=congress/>
+Tiner began his newspaper career at the since defunct afternoon daily, ''The Texarkana Daily News'' in Texarkana, [[Texas|Texas]], and the ''[[Minden Press-Herald]]'', a small daily which specializes in local news, in [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in his native Webster Parish. He was the ''Press-Herald'' managing editor from September 1969 until March 1970, when he left to join the staff of ''The Shreveport Times''.<ref name=congress/>
 At ''The Times,'' he became the newspaper's chief political correspondent and covered the 1971-1972 [[Governor|gubernatorial]] campaign from which [[Edwin Edwards]] became the dominant political figure in Louisiana for the remainder of the 20th century. Edwards, after having barely secured the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] nomination over then state State Senator and later [[U.S. Senator]] [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], of Shreveport, faced a stronger-than expected [[Republican Party|Republican]] challenge waged by the then Metairie lawyer and later [[U.S. Representative]] and Governor [[David C. Treen]]. Tiner soon became, like the late John Maginnis, the author of ''The Louisiana Hayride,'' as a resident expert on the flamboyant Edwards and Louisiana politics in general.<ref>Review of ''Minden Press-Herald'' and ''The Shreveport Times'' between 1969 and 1972.</ref>

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 ==Tiner and Edwards==
-Tiner was known for his inside sources in the Louisiana political world. For instance, after the 1983 gubernatorial race in which Edwards unseated Treen to win a third nonconsecutive term, Tiner reported on a controversial conversation that he had with the Louisiana legend. Tiner found three books in Edwards' possession: a [[Bible]], a copy of ''Playboy'' [[magazine]], and ''Democracy in America'' by [[Alexis de Tocqueville]]. Tiner asked Edwards, a [[Roman Catholic]] who had once been a [[Church of the Nazarene|Nazarene]] preacher, if he believed in the [[Christian]] concept of [[Jesus Christ]] sacrificing Himself for the [[sin]]s of mankind, undergoing [[crucifixion]] on a Roman cross, and then [[resurrection]] from the dead. Edwards told Tiner that he did NOT believe in the essence of the Christian faith and that he doubted that he would go to [[heaven]] after death. "I think Jesus died, but I don’t believe He came back to life because that's too much against natural law. I’m not going around preaching this, but He may have swooned, passed out, or almost died, and when He was taken down, with superhuman strength, after a period of time He may have revived Himself and come back to life," Edwards told Tiner. Reports of Edwards' revelations, however, surfaced AFTER the 1983 campaign, and the disclosures, which angered many conservative Christians, did not block Edwards from winning yet a fourth term eight years later.<ref name="theind">{{cite web|url=http://www.theind.com/politics2.asp?CID=1033172192 |title= TheInd.com - News &#124; Business &#124; Culture - Weekly - Lafayette LA |publisher=theind.com; no longer on-line.}}</ref>
+Tiner was known for his inside sources in the Louisiana political world. For instance, after the 1983 gubernatorial race in which Edwards unseated Treen to win a third nonconsecutive term, Tiner reported on a controversial conversation that he had with the Louisiana legend. Tiner found three books in Edwards' possession: a [[Bible]], a copy of ''Playboy'' [[magazine]], and ''Democracy in America'' by [[Alexis de Tocqueville]]. Tiner asked Edwards, a [[Roman Catholic]] who had once been a Nazarene preacher, if he believed in the [[Christian]] concept of [[Jesus Christ]] sacrificing Himself for the [[sin]]s of mankind, undergoing [[crucifixion]] on a Roman cross, and then [[resurrection]] from the dead. Edwards told Tiner that he did NOT believe in the essence of the Christian faith and that he doubted that he would go to [[heaven]] after death. "I think Jesus died, but I don’t believe He came back to life because that's too much against natural law. I’m not going around preaching this, but He may have swooned, passed out, or almost died, and when He was taken down, with superhuman strength, after a period of time He may have revived Himself and come back to life," Edwards told Tiner. Reports of Edwards' revelations, however, surfaced AFTER the 1983 campaign, and the disclosures, which angered many conservative Christians, did not block Edwards from winning yet a fourth term eight years later.<ref name="theind">{{cite web|url=http://www.theind.com/politics2.asp?CID=1033172192 |title= TheInd.com - News &#124; Business &#124; Culture - Weekly - Lafayette LA |publisher=theind.com; no longer on-line.}}</ref>
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 In 1974, Tiner, then thirty-two, was recruited from ''The Times'' to become the editor of the afternoon daily, the ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'',<ref name=congress/> published by [[Douglas Fisher Attaway]]. ''The Journal'' editor from 1951 to 1971 had been the conservative [[George W. Shannon]]. ''The Journal'' was the smaller of the two Shreveport papers and was struggling to remain competitive. Tiner was seen as the "new blood" the paper needed. In 1976, the Attaways sold the paper to the Shreveport industrialist [[Charles T. Beaird]], an intellectual and a philanthropist. Beaird, a [[Moderate Republican]], and Tiner, a [[liberal]] Democrat, moved ''The Journal'' to the political left, far from its previous [[conservative]] and [[Segregation|segregationist]] editorials, many penned by the former editor George Washington Shannon (1914-1998) during the Attaway tenure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Shannon&GSfn=George&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=53533197&df=all&|title=George Washington Shannon|author=John Andrew Prime|publisher=findagrave.com|date=June 10, 2010|accessdate=June 25, 2015}}</ref>
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 While at ''The Journal,'' Tiner offered an editorial position to former [[Mayor]] [[James C. Gardner]], later the president of the first city council under the mayor-council government and also the vice-president of the Southwestern Electric Power Company. Gardner turned him down because of salary and retirement considerations, but Tiner often held up Gardner as his idea of a "model" public official. He wrote a lengthy editorial on Gardner's legacy as "Mr. Shreveport" when the councilman decided not to seek reelection in 1982.<ref>James C. Gardner, ''Jim Gardner and Shreveport, Vol. II' (1959–2006),'' 181-182, 213, 244-248.</ref>
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 Tiner stayed with Beaird until the fall of 1987, when he resigned as ''The Journal'' editor to mount an unsuccessful campaign to capture Louisiana's 4th congressional district seat. ''The Shreveport Journal'' closed in 1991 but operated as an editorial page within ''The Shreveport Times'' until the last day of 1999.<ref name="shreveporttimes">{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/dclassifieds?Dato=20060420&Kategori=OBITUARIES&Class=1&Type=CAT2000&Lopenr=604200326&Selected=7 |title=''The Shreveport Times''|publisher=shreveporttimes.com|accessdate=December 13, 2014}}</ref>

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 ==''Shreveport Journal''==
-In 1974, Tiner, then thirty-two, was recruited from ''The Times'' to become the editor of the afternoon daily, the ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'',<ref name=congress/> published by [[Douglas Fisher Attaway]]. ''The Journal'' was the smaller of the two Shreveport papers and was struggling to remain competitive. Tiner was seen as the "new blood" the paper needed. In 1976, the Attaways sold the paper to the Shreveport industrialist [[Charles T. Beaird]], an intellectual and a philanthropist. Beaird, a [[Moderate Republican]], and Tiner, a [[liberal]] Democrat, moved ''The Journal'' to the political left, far from its previous [[conservative]] and [[Segregation|segregationist]] editorials, many penned by the former editor George Washington Shannon (1914-1998) during the Attaway tenure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Shannon&GSfn=George&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=53533197&df=all&|title=George Washington Shannon|author=John Andrew Prime|publisher=findagrave.com|date=June 10, 2010|accessdate=June 25, 2015}}</ref>
+In 1974, Tiner, then thirty-two, was recruited from ''The Times'' to become the editor of the afternoon daily, the ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'',<ref name=congress/> published by [[Douglas Fisher Attaway]]. ''The Journal'' editor from 1951 to 1971 had been the conservative [[George W. Shannon]]. ''The Journal'' was the smaller of the two Shreveport papers and was struggling to remain competitive. Tiner was seen as the "new blood" the paper needed. In 1976, the Attaways sold the paper to the Shreveport industrialist [[Charles T. Beaird]], an intellectual and a philanthropist. Beaird, a [[Moderate Republican]], and Tiner, a [[liberal]] Democrat, moved ''The Journal'' to the political left, far from its previous [[conservative]] and [[Segregation|segregationist]] editorials, many penned by the former editor George Washington Shannon (1914-1998) during the Attaway tenure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Shannon&GSfn=George&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=53533197&df=all&|title=George Washington Shannon|author=John Andrew Prime|publisher=findagrave.com|date=June 10, 2010|accessdate=June 25, 2015}}</ref>
 While at ''The Journal,'' Tiner offered an editorial position to former [[Mayor]] [[James C. Gardner]], later the president of the first city council under the mayor-council government and also the vice-president of the Southwestern Electric Power Company. Gardner turned him down because of salary and retirement considerations, but Tiner often held up Gardner as his idea of a "model" public official. He wrote a lengthy editorial on Gardner's legacy as "Mr. Shreveport" when the councilman decided not to seek reelection in 1982.<ref>James C. Gardner, ''Jim Gardner and Shreveport, Vol. II' (1959–2006),'' 181-182, 213, 244-248.</ref>

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 Tiner served in the [[United States Marine Corps]] and fought for thirteen months in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name=congress/><ref name="asne">{{cite web|url=http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=6299; |title= Louisiana Tech University ''Lagniappe'' (college yearbook), 1969 |publisher=asne.org|accessdate=December 13, 2014}}</ref> He was trained at Parris Island, [[South Carolina]], and was a combat correspondent with the 3rd Marine Division. Having been reared in a [[Segregation|segregationist]] society, Tiner recalled having been "thrown together in boot camp, black and white people from the South. All of that made a very profound impact on me, to see black Marines getting shot and dying for their country. I came back with the very clear idea that something's not right about this, that it was time to change how we did things in this country."<ref name=tinerretires/>
-In 1969, Tiner received his bachelor's degree in [[journalism]] from [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]. He was the editor during his senior year of ''The Tech Talk,'' the student newspaper, and studied under journalism chairperson Wiley Wilson Hilburn Jr. (1938-2014), who instructed him to bring current political issues into the newspaper. A long-time editorial writer for ''The Shreveport Times,'' Hilburn was subsequently inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield because of his expertise in Louisiana politics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofwinnfield.com/museum.html|title=Old L&A Depot:LA Political Museum|publisher=cityofwinnfield.com|accessdate=June 12, 2012}}</ref> Tiner was a Nieman Fellow at [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. He is a former chapter president of the Society of Professional Journalists, formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi.<ref name=congress/> As the student newspaper editor, Tiner tapped Reginald Owens as the first [[African-American]] staff member. Owens heads the Tech journalism department.<ref name=tinerretires/>
+In 1969, Tiner received his bachelor's degree in [[journalism]] from [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]]. He was the editor during his senior year of ''The Tech Talk,'' the student newspaper, and studied under journalism chairperson [[Wiley Hilburn]], who instructed him to bring current political issues into the newspaper. A long-time editorial writer for ''The Shreveport Times,'' Hilburn was subsequently inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield because of his expertise in Louisiana politics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofwinnfield.com/museum.html|title=Old L&A Depot:LA Political Museum|publisher=cityofwinnfield.com|accessdate=June 12, 2012}}</ref> Tiner was a Nieman Fellow at [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. He is a former chapter president of the Society of Professional Journalists, formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi.<ref name=congress/> As the student newspaper editor, Tiner tapped Reginald Owens as the first [[African-American]] staff member. Owens heads the Tech journalism department.<ref name=tinerretires/>
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 In 1986, Tiner opined that retiring U.S. Senator [[Russell Long]] may have stepped aside from seeking a seventh full six-year term because Long may have been unseated by Republican U.S. Representative William Henson Moore of [[Baton Rouge]]. Long's successor, [[John Breaux]], also a U.S. representative at the time from Crowley in Acadia Parish, however, defeated Moore in the general election though Moore had led in the nonpartisan blanket primary. Long said that he merely wanted to have a few years of retirement while the calendar was still somewhat favorable to him. Long lived until 2003.
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 In 1991, Tiner noted in an interview that the returning Edwin Edwards, poised to win his fourth and final term as governor, was dependent on disillusioned supporters of former Governor [[Buddy Roemer]], a Democrat-turned-Republican, to provide victory over then state Representative [[David Duke]], the one-time figure in the [[Ku Klux Klan]] who was opposed by nearly two thirds of Louisiana voters. According to Tiner, "The Duke vote is impenetrable. It's going to be there even if a tidal wave rolls across the state. Edwards is dependent on the Roemer voters who despised him four years ago -- he was the dragon Buddy Roemer promised to slay. That's a pretty scary prospect if you're sitting in Edwards's seat." As it turned out, Tiner appeared to have overrated Duke's electoral appeal in 1991, and Roemer's father had been Edwards' first campaign manager commissioner of administration in the first two Edwards terms.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDF1139F936A25752C1A967958260 |publisher=''The New York Times'' | title=On Eve of Louisiana Vote, Nothing Is Certain |author=Peter Applebome |date=November 15, 1991}}</ref>

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 Tiner took a leadership role in the American Society of Newspaper Editors as chairperson of the Freedom of Information Committee. He became vocal in his support of [[First Amendment]] issues: "ASME embraces the long American tradition of open courts and open trials. The press serves as a surrogate to the public. The American public can’t be crammed into a trial room. The press represents the public at the trial. Newspaper editors are troubled by what appears to be an overzealous emphasis on privacy bordering on secrecy in the courtroom."
-Tiner added: "The Founding Fathers built [[Independence Hall]] in [[Philadelphia]] on the principle of open trials."<ref name="asne2">{{cite web|url=http://www.asne.org/kiosk/editor/97.mar-may/move4.htm |title= ASNE - ASNE on the move - Open courtrooms are Americans' right<!-- Bot generated title --> |publisher=asne.org}}</ref>
+Tiner added: "The Founding Fathers built [[Independence Hall]] in [[Philadelphia]] on the principle of open trials."<ref name="asne2">{{cite web|url=http://www.asne.org/kiosk/editor/97.mar-may/move4.htm |title=ASNE - ASNE on the move - Open courtrooms are Americans' right<!-- Bot generated title --> |publisher=asne.org; no longer on-line.}}</ref>
 Tiner often encouraged journalism students in colleges and universities. At ''The Press-Register'', he teamed with the [[University of Alabama]] Journalism Department in [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]] to produce ''Alabama’s  Black Belt,'' a 20-page special section on the old [[Cotton]] Kingdom of the state. Associate Professor Bailey Thomson, a former newsman from Shreveport, and a team of advanced undergraduate and graduate students spent six months immersed in the life of three Black Belt counties. The students reported on the area economy, culture, and politics. ''The Press Register'' assistant editor Dewey English coached the classes on in-depth reporting and helped to edit the stories for publication. The ''Press-Register'' staff laid out the stories and photos, and the paper ran the project on January 18, 1998.

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 ==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 witness 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.<ref>[http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/apinews/api_news_releases/pulitzer_prizewinning_editor_t/ Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editor To Speak at API Seminar - American Press Institute; no longer on-line.</ref>
+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 witness 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/apinews/api_news_releases/pulitzer_prizewinning_editor_t/|title=Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editor To Speak at API Seminar|publisher=American Press Institute; no longer on-line}}.</ref>
 ==Encouraging student journalists==