After a 29-year career with The Globe and Mail, which included stints as bureau chief in Washington, DC and Toronto City Hall and as a member of the Ottawa Parliamentary Bureau, she became a freelance writer and editor based in Stratford, Ontario. In 1984, she was named the Globe's first female foreign correspondent and later was co-winner of a National Newspaper Award for coverage of the Canada-U.S. free trade negotiations. In 1990, she was chosen as a Nieman Fellow, joining 20 journalists from around the world to study for a year at Harvard University.