Troy Turner

Troy Turner is the editor of The Daily Times in Farmington, N.M., which is the largest and most influential media entity in the remote Four Corners region, serving readers in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona as well as the massive Navajo Nation. Troy specializes in two areas of journalism: international relations and civil rights. He holds a master's degree with dual emphasis in those two fields, and he has won national journalism awards throughout his career for investigative work and reporting on a wide variety of topics, including special honors from Columbia University in New York for his work on diversity issues.

 He has served as a juror to help judge the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia, and he has lectured at universities throughout the U.S., including a fellowship at Washington & Lee University in Virginia. He was a Johns Hopkins University-sponsored Fellow sent to India in 2005, and his other experience abroad includes South Africa, Jordan, Mexico, Venezuela and Europe. Troy is the author of “Colorado's Lost Squadron” about the stories of military aircraft and their crews training in Colorado during War World II. He is working on a new book analyzing the influence of journalism on civil rights during the violent post-World War I summer of 1919 when blacks hailed as war heroes in Europe returned to lynch mobs in America.

 Troy, who grew up in 1960s Alabama, has spent his entire career dedicated to the advancement of cultural diversity and battling racism, including today with attention on American Indian issues. Globally, he has met and interviewed numerous world leaders such as American presidents, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, in India the prime minister of the world's largest democracy, and Arab royalty in the Middle East.

 Troy received his early management training during his tenure with the New York Times Co. and he is most known for being the senior editor of several quality community newspapers, including a six-year stint in Alabama at The Anniston Star, leading that highly respected newspaper to several national awards such as an unmatched three consecutive years of winning APME's International Perspective Award. While serving The Daily Reporter-Herald in Loveland, Colorado, that newspaper was named the best small daily in America.

 Troy quickly will tell you that he loves the Rocky Mountain region and that he enjoys the diversity and outdoors of the culturally rich Four Corners area. He coaches high school varsity baseball, summer youth baseball, teaches adult Sunday School, serves as a community volunteer for several events and he is the founder of the non-profit “Glove with Love” campaign to collect used and new baseball gloves for the underprivileged. He and his wife Barbie have three children, Courtney, Audrey and Shane.

He recently received the the 2009 Robert G. McGruder Award for Diversity Leadership.