[2] She was seen in the industry as an unusually intelligent interviewer, and was credited for introducing to wider audiences bands that did not neatly fit into her radio station's format.
[4][5] She served as freelance music reviewer for CBC Newsworld's On the Arts, alongside novelist David Gilmour.
Concurrent with her work as radio host, Hughes was music editor at Toronto-based alternative news weekly Now.
[2] Her work has been widely published, appearing in the Toronto Star,[6][7] The Globe and Mail, Billboard, Salon, the National Post, Utne Reader and others.
For several years, Hughes maintained two blogs (film and music) for Sympatico.ca as well as writing freelance for myriad digital and print publications.