Heidi hemmat biography

Longtime Denver TV journalist Heidi Hemmat quit her job at KDVR Channel in June because she says she feared for her life following death threats from the subject of an investigative story, as well as the lack of support she felt she received at the station.

“I just think people surmised that I got forced out, and I didn’t want that to be the case.

I wanted to leave with my head held high.”

In a Nov. 24 blog post on , the website for a legal-services video business Hemmat launched this year, the year-old Riverside, Calif., native alleged that her boss at Denver’s Fox network affiliate — not named in the blog post, but confirmed in a Post interview with Hemmat as KDVR vice president of news Holly Gauntt — belittled Hemmat’s concern after hearing about death threats from a man whose fraud case she reported on.

KDVR discontinued Hemmat’s security detail after a few days after expressing concern about how much it was costi