She has hosted programs on CBC Radio One, CFRB and Q107, including Metro Morning, Here and Now, As It Happens and the daily television talk show Jane Hawtin Live.
She has produced several shows, including Jane Hawtin Live, Linehan, Prime Business with Deidre McMurdy, Caregiving with June Callwood, Road Scholars and The Link.
She has worked extensively since 2004 producing programming for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
She started in radio news interviewing at CKLC-FM in Kingston, Ontario in 1977.
"Hawtin got her foot firmly planted in the door with the weekend news, which she would write and read herself" biographer Susan Crean reports.