Steve Dunkelberger

Business Examiner editor

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Steve Dunkelberger is the editor of the Business Examiner, so the buck stops with him – editorially speaking. He coordinates news coverage, advises the members of the editorial team and generally oversees the editorial operations of the BE news products – online, in print and in your face at seminars and presentations. He has been a journalist in the South Sound for more than a decade, covering everything from sports and business to crime and theater to politics and schools.

He is a military brat of an Army officer and has seen the world courtesy of Uncle Sam. He graduated from Lakes High School in Lakewood and earned a journalism degree, with minors in political science and history from Western Washington University in Bellingham. He worked at the Bellingham Herald for a stint before returning to his home turf as a reporter, then editor, of the now-defunct Lakewood Journal. He was worked at the BE since 2001. He is an avid theatergoer and history buff, having helped establish the Lakewood Historical Society then coauthoring a book on the city's diverse history as well as periodically writing articles for the Washington State History Society's magazine and HistoryLink.org.

He is a member of several historical groups and serves on the Lakewood Heritage Advisory Board. He is a member of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Lakewood and is a co-leader of his daughter's Brownie troop.

Steve can be reached at sdunkel@BusinessExaminer.com or by calling (253) 404-0891 x23.

Editor's note: That typewriter in Steve's hands in not a mere prop used for this photo shoot. It belonged to his grandfather, Benjamin Walter Dunkelberger. He used it to write a community newsletter in Fargo, North Dakota during World War II. The newsletters were mailed to soldiers on the front as a way to keep them informed about their friends and neighbors.

The typewriter is a 1939 Underwood that was handed down to his father, James Walter Dunkelberger when he went to college two decades later. It was lost to history when his grandmother died, having been sold to a local antique dealer. A 12-year search by his father tracked it down, gifting it to Steve on his birthday three years ago.

The typewriter shuttles between his office and house, where he occasionally uses it for writing personal letters or just to hear the tapping of those same keys his grandfather used those many decades ago.