Heikes joins the Weekly with 35 years of experience editing newspapers and newsmagazines in 2009 (Photo by Kevin Grant).

Heikes joined the Weekly in 2009 after a successful stint as editor of the innovative Las Vegas Sun. He was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation at the Sun that detailed the unsafe -- and often lethal -- underbelly of the Las Vegas construction boom in the early 2000s. 

Heikes was also the former editor of the L.A. Times Magazine.

For more on Heikes and his vision for the Weekly, check out former Neon Tommy editor Kevin Douglas Grant's 2009 profile here.

A copy of Heikes' memorandum to his staff was secured by L.A. Observed and can be viewed below:

Drex Heikes Memo