Brian Anderson

Brian Anderson has been editor of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine since 1977, making him the longest-tenured city magazine editor in the country. A native of Minneapolis, he was a 1966 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Minnesota’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Following graduation he worked six years as a reporter for the then-Minneapolis Tribune, three years in corporate public relations, and two years in Washington, D.C., as a writer, researcher, and speechwriter for then-U.S. Senator Walter Mondale. He joined the magazine as editor when its entire staff, including edit, art, sales, and business, consisted of only twelve people.  He has an adult son and daughter, and currently lives in a downtown Minneapolis condo with his wife and two teenage stepdaughters.