From the sounds of things, it was roughly a month ("[he] was not in contact with us through most of August and into September."). That's probably not super cra

From the sounds of things, it was roughly a month ("[he] was not in contact with us through most of August and into September."). That's probably not super crazy for a reasonably senior writer working on "longish" form stuff. While a month is probably a long time, I wouldn't be surprised if a week or two usually passed without touching base. It might take a couple of those "week or two" cycles to notice someone hasn't checked in. The article also says it wasn't unnoticed, and that they tried to reach him several times in that period.