children religion birth_place image_size nationality party footnotes parents birth_date spouse residence article_title name occupation alma_mater
marcus gerard `` mark '' tiner southern baptist springhill , webster parish , louisiana usa 220px american democrat -lrb- of the vietnam war 1 -rrb- veteran of the united states marines elmer tiner ray and nannie lea `` nancy '' randolph 22 august 1942 veronica 1947 -rrb- jo `` vickie '' thibodeaux tiner -lrb- born gulfport , harrison county , mississippi , usa stanley r. tiner
 stanley ray tiner retiring in biloxi-gulfport ; journalist executive editor of '' the sun herald '' fair park high school in shreveport
stanley r. tiner

stanley ray tiner -lrb- born august 22 , 1942 -rrb- is the retiring executive editor and vice president of `` the sun herald '' newspaper in biloxi-gulfport , mississippi , a post he held from may 2000 to september 2015 .
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 .
