The weekly covered the civil rights movement and related political and labor issues and was read mainly by black people in Mississippi.
[2] On August 10, 1970, she braved hecklers and having a mug of beer thrown over her to be one of the first unaccompanied women ever to have a drink at McSorley's Old Ale House in New York city, an all-Male institution since 1854.
Komisar exposed the practice of Sodexo, a major provider of food to schools, colleges, hospitals, companies and other institutions, of demanding and getting kickbacks from its suppliers.
[6] In 2010, Komisar received the Gerald Loeb Award for Medium & Small Newspapers for "Keys to the Kingdom: How State Regulators Enabled a $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme".
Eliot Higgins of the Bellingcat investigative journalism group accused Komisar of writing the article with the help of artificial intelligence and referencing "fictional sources.