Erik Tumyr (27 November 1962 – 16 April 2011) was a Norwegian journalist. He was the son of journalist, newspaper editor and politician Arne Tumyr. He started his career in '' Nybrott'' in 1983, where his father had been editor-in-chief since 1970. He then worked for '' Rjukan Arbeiderblad'' and '' Dagbladet Sørlandet''. In 1988 he was hired in '' Osloavisen'', and as it went defunct after a short time, he went on to ''

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''. At the advent of 2001 he started in ''

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'', and in 2002 he won a

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for revealing that billionaire

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owned and steered a yacht without the appropriate seafaring certificate. Tumyr worked in gossip magazine ''

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'' from 2003, later in '' Kapital''. He wrote two books, the first with Frank Gander about the

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. Titled ''Da døden kom til Orderud'', it was released in 2002. In 2005 he published a memoir book named ''Journalistjævler''. He had one daughter. He sustained a serious head trauma in the summer of 2010, was in a coma for some time before recovering, but he died in April 2011.

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