Heidi Kyser
Managing EditorDesert Companion welcomed Heidi Kyser as staff writer in January 2014. In 2018, she was promoted to senior writer and producer, working for both DC and KNPR's State of Nevada. She produced KNPR’s first podcast, the Edward R. Murrow Regional Award-winning Native Nevada, in 2020. The following year, she returned her focus full-time to Desert Companion, becoming Deputy Editor, which meant she was next in line to take over when longtime editor Andrew Kiraly left in July 2022. In 2024, CEO Favian Perez promoted Heidi to managing editor, charged with integrating the Desert Companion and State of Nevada newsroom operations.
In her 20 years as a print and on-air journalist, Heidi’s done it all, from news writing for a weekly business publication, to producing multimedia stories for an alternative weekly, winning a handful of Eddie, Maggie, and Nevada Press Association awards along the way. She got into journalism after leaving academics to pursue research and writing with more immediacy, but managed to earn a master’s degree from Harvard along the way.
When she’s not camping, hiking, riding her bike, or doing some other outdoor activity with her husband, Heidi is most likely to be found on a yoga mat, being spotted by her 100-pound American Bulldog Buster.
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The publicly funded animal control and sheltering system in Southern Nevada has struggled for as long as anyone can remember.
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When we say, "Las Vegas nightlife," what leaps to mind? If the first thing you think of is Drai's, Omnia, and Tao on the Strip, then you're missing out on all the locals’ options.
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For decades, downtown Las Vegas was the place to be if you were an artist. Now, that's changed.
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Nevada's natural areas are being overrun. That’s been great for the state’s tourism industry, but not so good for the environment.
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The recent addition of Andi Isaacs to UNLV Film faculty projects the department’s pragmatic turn
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Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health