Howard A. Tyner

Vice president/editorial, retired, Tribune Publishing, Chicago, Illinois

Tyner joined the Chicago Tribune in 1977 after a decade working in Europe with United Press International. For UPI he served as a correspondent in London, Vienna, Frankfurt, Bonn, Warsaw and Moscow. After five years of covering a broad range of domestic and international stories for the Tribune from Chicago, he was assigned to the then Soviet Union in 1982 as Moscow bureau chief.

In 1985 he returned to Chicago to become foreign editor and, in 1988, associate managing editor for foreign and national news. He was named deputy managing editor in 1990 and associate editor in 1992.

On September 1, 1993, Tyner was named 19th editor of the Tribune, which was founded in 1847.

During his tenure as editor, the Tribune received six Pulitzer Prizes, two Robert Kennedy awards and numerous other citations. The newspaper’s renovated newsroom and the Tribune Media Center in Washington, both opened while Tyner was editor, have become centerpieces for Tribune Co.’s groundbreaking and internationally recognized multimedia news strategy.

In February 2001, he relinquished the Tribune editorship to focus exclusively on his role as Tribune Publishing’s vice president/editorial. In the same month, the Washington-based National Press Foundation cited him as U.S. Editor of the Year for 2000 based on the Tribune’s coverage of death penalty issues and his leadership in multimedia.

Tyner received a B.A. from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, and an M.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He also completed the Advanced Executive Program at Duke University.

After 38-1/2 years in the news business, Tyner retired at the end of 2003.