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 Verdens Gang. At the advent of 2001 he started in Dagens Næringsliv, and in 2002 he won a SKUP Award for revealing that billionaire Kjell Inge Røkke owned and steered a yacht without the appropriate seafaring certificate. Tumyr worked in gossip magazine Se og Hør from 2003,[1] later in Kapital.[2]
He wrote two books, the first with Frank Gander about the Orderud case. Titled Da døden kom til Orderud, it was released in 2002. In 2005 he published a memoir book named Journalistjævler.[2]
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.[2] [3]