[2] While at school Machirori started writing letters to the editor at the nationalist African Daily News, and in 1963 joined the newspaper as a cadet journalist.
[4] In 1974 Machirori left Zimbabwe on a scholarship to study at the New York Institute of Technology, gaining a BA in Communications in 1979.
She worked as a media officer for the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, before returning to journalism as a senior reporter at The Chronicle.There she rose through the ranks, eventually becoming news editor.
In 1988, under her leadership, the paper broke the Willowgate scandal, an investigation into ZANU-PF corruption, which led to the resignation of five cabinet ministers and subsequent newspaper censorship in Zimbabwe.
[3] In 2004 Machirori became features editor at The Financial Gazette, writing two political columns, 'Africa File' and 'Personal Glimpses' under a pseudonym.