[1] She was encouraged to become a journalist by her uncle, a newspaper editor, despite journalism's severe lack of gender diversity at the time.

[4] That summer, aged 20, she covered the 1963 civil rights march on Washington and heard Martin Luther King give his "I Have a Dream" speech.

"[8] Over the course of her career, she rose through the ranks and earned the title of special correspondent in 1992, a designation bestowed on only 18 reporters since the AP was founded in 1846.

[1] Deutsch covered the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)[8] and the trials of Kennedy's assassin Sirhan Sirhan (1969),[4] cult leader Charles Manson (1970–1971),[10] Angela Davis (1971–1972), activist Daniel Ellsberg (1973),[4] bank robber Patty Hearst (1976),[11] the Exxon Valdez oil spill (1989),[12] acquitted double murderer O. J. Simpson (1995),[13] murderer Phil Spector (2009),[14] singer Michael Jackson, actor Robert Blake, serial killer Richard Ramirez,[15] and parricidal brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez.

[17] The trial also marked her first time acting as a television journalist; her reporting was widely broadcast due to the Associated Press's neutral reputation.

[4] In 1997, she promoted the late Theo Wilson's memoir Headline Justice: Inside the Courtroom – The Country's Most Controversial Trials on a book tour and at her own expense.