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, including foreign studies and civil rights. He holds a master's degree in history with dual emphasis in those two fields, and he has won numerous journalism awards throughout his career for investigative work and reporting on a wide variety of topics.

He has twice served as a juror to help judge the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University in New York, 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 and Europe. Troy is the author of "Colorado's Lost Squadron" about the stories of military aircraft and their crews training

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in Colorado during War World II, and he is currently working on a book analyzing the influence of Alabama journalism on civil rights during the violent post-World War I summer of 1919.

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. This is his second time as editor in Farmington, having served in the same role in 1999-2000 before the successful stint in larger Anniston and his native Alabama. 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, which lured him back. He coaches high school and youth baseball, teaches adult Sunday School, 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.