From Businessweek Workhorse to Contented Cat Lover

Those 70-hour work weeks in New York are ancient history.

ToCatchaCatThere are two heartening journalism narratives at play here.

The first is the existence of website Loudoun Now, a community-owned operation that covers local goings-on in its Virginia neck of the woods. If you want to be inspired by the existence and potential of such operations, just check out the staff bios.

The second, per our headline, is a very fun item contributed to the site by Jan Mercker. The piece is about Heather Green, a one-time New York journalist who moved back to the Loudoun area last fall and has penned a memoir titled To Catch a Cat:

In 2004, Green was working 70-hour weeks as a technology reporter for BusinessWeek and living on Manahattan’s Upper West Side.

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