Jason Collington

Tulsa World Executive Editor

Bill Braun once overheard me talking about my upcoming story about a prominent person in town.

The next morning was a paper copy of a lawsuit from years ago involving that person.

I walked the papers over to Braun and said thank you. He said, “Sometimes people don’t like to bring up in interviews what the court records show.”

Tim Stanley does a great job telling his story today. Not only was he a legend in our newsroom, he is one of 51 journalists who worked at the Tulsa World in the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.

“He was always fair and even-handed. ... You could always come to believe Bill was going to write a straight story,” said Ken Ray Underwood, an attorney and the Tulsa County Bar Association’s public relations chairman, in 2

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