She won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting while working at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
[5] After she was discouraged from applying for a promotion in the Journal's news department, Huston was given an assignment on alternative nursing homes for the elderly.
While conducting research, she discovered the poor and neglectful homes elderly people were living in and their lack of health care access.
[7] Two years after becoming the first female journalist from Milwaukee Journal to earn a Pulitzer, she was promoted to the business and editorial page position.
[8] Huston later received the 1980 By-Line Award from Marquette University's School of Journalism[3] and the Milwaukee Press Club Knights of the Golden Quill.