Heidi Kyser
Managing EditorDesert Companion welcomed Heidi Kyser as staff writer in January 2014. In 2018, she became 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, charging her with integrating the Desert Companion and State of Nevada newsrooms.
In her 20 years as a print and on-air journalist, Heidi’s done it all, from news writing for weekly business magazines, to producing multimedia pieces for alt weeklies, winning a load of Eddie, Maggie, and Nevada Press Association awards along the way. She left academics after getting a master's degree from Harvard, so she could pursue research and writing with more immediacy.
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 pit bull Buster.
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On April 18, the Bureau of Land Management issued long-awaited revised rules for public lands use decisions. -
Language, religion, and sexuality collide in Julián Delgado Lopera's Fiebre Tropical -
BMI Conversations, episode 4: Julián Delgado Lopera. They're a 2024 Shearing Fellow, and author of the book Fiebre Tropical, from Feminist Press. -
A diverse coalition of Amargosa Valley locals asks the federal government to halt mineral claims near Ash Meadows -
Abortion was already going to be a big issue for women's health in the fall election, then in late February, Alabama increased the stakes. -
State and federal officials are making a huge push for renewable development. They see it as a key to combatting the negative effects of climate change. -
In her first book, Tajja Isen looks for racial equity in all the right places -
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BMI Conversations, episode 3: Tajja Isen. She’s a 2024 Shearing Fellow, and author of the 2022 book Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, from Atria/One Signal Publishers.
