[3] Walsh worked with Susan Forrest to publish over 175 articles for the Eagle-Tribune on the furlough system of the Massachusetts state prisons under Michael Dukakis, including the Willie Horton case.
[4] The Eagle-Tribune staff won a Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting in 1988 citing it is "an investigation that revealed serious flaws in the Massachusetts prison furlough system and led to significant statewide reforms.
[6] There she began investigating major social issues, and in 1997 led a four-person team that produced "The Deadliest Drug: Maine's Addiction to Alcohol", which won the Pew Center for Civic Journalism Batten Award.
[7] In 1999 her series "A Stolen Soul", about a woman's struggle to bring her son's murderer to justice, won the national Dart Award for excellence in reporting on victims of violence.
It also received an honorable mention for the Batten Award for excellence in civic journalism;[10] the Pew Center called the stories "a stunningly framed and written series about teens that broke free of stereotypes.
[16] Sammy in the Sky is a picture book featuring a girl and her hound dog, illustrated by the internationally known contemporary American realist painter Jamie Wyeth.