Erik Siemers has been editor of the St. Louis Business Journal since December 2018. He came to St. Louis from Portland, Oregon, where he spent 10 years at the Portland Business Journal, the last five of those years as managing editor. Prior to that he was a staff reporter at the Albuquerque (N.M.) Tribune and Pittsburgh (Pa.) Tribune-Review, and has written for the Wall Street Journal, The (Allentown, Pa.) Morning Call and the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald. He is a 1999 graduate of the University of North Dakota, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in communication. Over the years, he’s been recipient of several awards from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers and was part of the staff at the Grand Forks Herald that won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for public service.