In her working career McLeod has contributed to the specialist sports magazines Scotland's Runner, Scottish, The Punter football magazine and Today's Runner. She has also freelanced in sport and general features for the Daily Record, Sunday Mail and Scotland on Sunday. Then, in 1995, she joined BBC Scotland. Since then she has worked on a variety of programmes, generally in sport, presenting sport segments on Reporting Scotland and as a reporter on "The Adventure Show". In her time with BBC Scotland McLeod has also enjoyed working at the World Cup in France in 1998 and Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Manchester and, in 2006, Melbourne. She was also part of BBC Scotland's coverage of the decision to award the next Commonwealth Games to Glasgow 2014.