She is best known for her association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, where she worked as a foreign correspondent and as anchor of ABC TV's 7pm news in Adelaide.
[1][4] In 1992, Schwartz became a founding reporter for ABC TV's new current affairs program Foreign Correspondent, hosted by George Negus.
[6] She worked on the program as a full time reporter for six years before becoming an occasional contributor after being appointed as the ABC's Jerusalem-based Middle East correspondent in 1997.
[8] In late 2014, Schwartz returned to Australia when she became the ABC's national rural and regional correspondent, based in Brisbane.
[12][13] In 1996, Schwartz won the UNESCO gold award at the New York Film Festival for her Foreign Correspondent story about Burkina Faso's quest to ending female genital mutilation.