Jason Heid is a senior editor at Texas Monthly with a focus on stories about medicine, health care, science, technology, and business. He was previously editor-in-chief of Austin Monthly, digital editorial director for D Magazine, and an editor at the Dallas Morning News. He began his career as a reporter, and later executive editor, for several newspapers serving suburbs of Dallas and Fort Worth. He grew up in the North Texas city of Denton and earned a history degree at Trinity University in San Antonio.