Tim Stephens is the Florida Sports Topics Manager for Tribune Co., supervising all sports content and personnel for the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.

Stephens, 42, joined Tribune Co., in 2003 as a senior desk editor at the Orlando Sentinel, moving to assistant sports editor and deputy sports editor before being promoted to Sports Topics Manager in 2009. He was promoted to head of department of both the Sentinel and Sun-Sentinel in August 2010. Stephens began his career at the Post-Herald of Birmingham, Ala., rising from intern to co-managing editor between 1994 and 2003.

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