After working for The Philadelphia Bulletin and The Washington Star, she spent ten years at The New York Times, where she became a national political reporter and the first woman ever to cover a presidential campaign. At The Times, she also covered metropolitan news, City Hall, Style and cultural news before leaving the paper to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. During her 24 years at the magazine, she wrote many of its best-known movie star cover stories as well as investigative articles on subjects ranging from priest pedophilia to the nation’s war against drugs.