Stanley R. Tiner

(1) Veteran of the United States Marines of the Vietnam War

Stanley Ray Tiner, known as Stan Tiner (born August 22, 1942), is the former executive editor and vice president of The Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi, a post he held from May 2000 to August 31, 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.

Under Tiner's editorship, The Sun Herald 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.

Tiner joined the Mobile Press-Register at the invitation of its publisher, Howard Bronson, the former publisher of The Shreveport Times worked to turn around a newspaper with "a dismal reputation in journalism circles and the community." At The Press-Register, Tiner in 1995 was a judge on a five-person panel to select the winning editorial for the Pulitzer Prize that year.

Tiner was born to Elmer Ray Tiner (1908–2010), an oil refinery worker, and the former Nannie Lea "Nancy" Randolph (1918-2011) in Springhill in northern Webster Parish just south of the Arkansas state line.

Ray Tiner was a native of rural Tyro in Lincoln County in southeastern Arkansas, a son of John Bunyan and Lula Mat Tiner. John Bunyan Tiner, Stanley Tiner's grandfather, operated a gristmill and blacksmith shop with other family members. Ray Tiner attended the University of Arkansas at Monticello, then Arkansas A&M College, where he played football and captained the Boll Weevil basketball team. On the university's centennial in 2009, Ray Tiner served as grand marshal of the homecoming parade.