Loudoun Now is a community-owned news organization covering Loudoun County, Virginia.
Phone: 703-770-9723
Here’s our story, as presented in Vol. 1, No. 1.
Norman K. Styer, Editor & Publisher
newspaper, working as its first full-time reporter and specializing in land use and development issues. He was named the paper’s managing editor for multimedia operations, in charge of developing the newspaper’s website and overseeing its cable television news programming. In 1997, he was named editor of Leesburg Today and was elected to the newspaper’s board of directors. After the community investor group sold the newspaper in 2006, he continued to serve as publisher and editor-in-chief for the Loudoun-based publications through a number of corporate ownership changes until 2015, when the papers were sold and closed. Following that transaction, he joined with a group of community members and journalists to launch a new community news organization, Loudoun Now. He lives in Round Hill, with his wife Susan.Danielle Nadler, Managing Editor
Danielle Nadler grew up in chilly-but-friendly South Dakota and moved west to warmer 
climates after earning a degree in print journalism from Minnesota State University. She has covered education, politics and general news for daily newspapers in Minnesota, California, Las Vegas and Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. She worked for Leesburg Today for four years as education reporter and deputy editor before helping launch Loudoun Now. She and her husband love to cycle and cook and feel fortunate to live and work in downtown Leesburg.
Margaret Morton, Senior Writer
A graduate of Edinburgh University in Scotland, Margaret Morton left her native Britain in 
1966 to come to America after marrying Virginian W. Brown Morton. She entered the world of journalism at age 55, when she joined the staff of Leesburg Today in September 1992. In 24 years of covering the Loudoun community, its history, its people and its places, she has never regretted that life choice. She wholeheartedly joined the effort to launch Loudoun Now and continues to cover the people and communities of Loudoun. She and her retired architectural conservationist husband live in downtown Leesburg.
Renss Greene, Reporter
Renss Greene met Loudoun Now Managing Editor Danielle Nadler and her husband at a Virginia Press Association awards 
banquet in April of 2015 and immediately knew he wanted to be on this team. Loudoun Now is the perfect opportunity to do just that. A native of Virginia’s Middle Peninsula, he earned a mass communications degree from Emory & Henry College in southwest Virginia and has since worked in radio, newswriting and photography.
He covers county government for Loudoun Now after working two years at the Rappahannock Record in scenic Kilmarnock, Virginia. He lives in the mountains of Clarke County.
rgreene@loudounnow.com
@RenssGreene
Kara Clark Rodriguez, Reporter
Kara Clark Rodriguez is a Northern Virginia native who studied print journalism at New York University. In August 2007, she moved back to the area to join the Leesburg Today 
staff as its Leesburg beat reporter and, later, Loudoun Business assistant editor. Following several years as the office manager at a local dental practice, she was honored to be a part of the launch of Loudoun Now where she is helping to cover Leesburg and business once again. Kara and her husband live in Berryville with their two little girls, a rescue dog they adopted and a stray cat who adopted them.
Patrick Szabo, Reporter
Patrick Szabo is a Loudoun native, born in Leesburg and currently living in Ashburn. In 2014, he graduated from George Mason University with a degree in English and journalism. His passion for journalism began immediately after watching The Rum Diary in spring 2012. Patrick interned with Leesburg Today from 2012 to 2013 before deciding to concentrate his efforts on law school. In fall 2014, he attended the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. He left after one semester to focus on creative writing and pursue a career in journalism. In addition to reporting, Patrick has also raced cars competitively since 2011.
Douglas Graham, Photographer
Douglas Graham’s award-winning career spans over 35 years as a staff and freelance editorial 
photographer. He has covered national and international news, national politics, professional, Olympic and college-level sporting events. He retired from the Economist Group in Washington in 2014 but continues to freelance at the local level. He holds first place news photo awards in many categories from Florida Press Association, World Press Photo Contest, Virginia Press Association, Virginia News Photographers Association, North Carolina Press Association, The White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association.
Susan Styer, Advertising Director
A Loudoun County native, Susan Styer grew up in Sterling and Leesburg, and graduated from 
Loudoun County High School. She has 20 years of experience in newspaper advertising sales. She joined the staff of Leesburg Today in the classified advertising department in 1995. Two years later, she was recruited to join the display advertising staff. In 2003, she was named advertising manager for Leesburg Today. She continued as the newspaper’s sales manger and top seller through 2015. She lives in Round Hill with her husband Norman.