Jon Heyman is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. Heyman writes a baseball notes column called The Daily Scoop for SI.com, which appears every day during the baseball season and twice a week during the offseason. Heyman reports on the news of baseball year-round for SI.com and also contributes to the magazine. He frequently authors the "Inside Baseball" column in SI.

Heyman came to Sports Illustrated in July 2006 after 16 years at Newsday, where he served as Yankees beat writer, baseball columnist and general sports columnist. Heyman, who developed a reputation for breaking major baseball stories while at Newsday, broke the story of Barry Bonds going to the Giants in 1992 (with Tom Verducci, who's been at SI since '93) and Alex Rodriguez going to the Yankees in 2004, among many other stories. Heyman was a baseball columnist for The Sporting News in 1999 and 2000.

Heyman joined WFAN in New York in November 2007 as a contributor, and appears on the popular Mike and the Mad Dog show twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4:05 p.m. Before going to WFAN, he was a regular contributor to ESPN-1050 radio in New York and appeared every Tuesday on The Michael Kay Show on that station since 2002. He is sometimes seen as a Forum panelist on Rome is Burning, the acclaimed TV sports show starring Jim Rome, and has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows.

Heyman, who was born in Santa Fe, N.M., and grew up in Cedarhurst, N.Y., on Long Island, is a 1983 graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.