[6][11] In late 1995, she began working as a correspondent for Austrian national public broadcaster ORF reporting locally and then internationally from Kosovo, Eastern Europe and across Southwest Asia and North Africa.
[12] From August 2003, she was the BBC Madrid correspondent, travelling around Europe, Southwest Asia and North Africa to cover stories including the deaths of Pope John Paul II and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a Paris hospital.
[1] From December 2006 Adler was the BBC's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem but reporting around the region from Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Libya.
Her appointment was controversial because her LinkedIn profile stated that for 15 years she had regularly facilitated conferences for a number of clients including one for the European Union.
Davies stated: "this cosy relationship between the BBC and the European Commission severely undermines your editorial integrity and ability to report matters in a strictly objective manner."
[17] In early February 2017, the BBC broadcast a documentary by Adler titled After Brexit: the Battle for Europe in which she examined the mounting challenges facing the European Union over the next few years.
[19] In January 2021, Katya Adler revealed the 21st-century meanings of Dante's Divine Comedy in a three part radio series on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death with three expert guides through Inferno (Margaret Kean, English Teacher at St Hilda’s College, Oxford), Purgatorio (Matthew Treherne, Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Leeds), and Paradiso (Vittorio Montemaggi, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge), and Michael Sheen as Dante.
[25] In November 2023, an interview with Adler and French President Emmanuel Macron aired on the BBC News channel.
[26] In September 2020 the BBC partially upheld a complaint against Adler after she sent a series of tweets on 28 April 2020 stating that an "observation"[27] put forward by Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove was "delusional".