[1] Berger worked as a foreign correspondent for Newsday on Long Island from 1965 to 1970 where she covered the United Nations and followed, from there, every hour of the six-day war in the Middle East.
Berger reported that Richard Nixon White House staffer Ken Clawson had bragged to her about authoring the Canuck Letter, a forged letter to the editor of the Manchester Union Leader that played a large part in ending the campaign of Senator Edmund Muskie.
[2] She reported on the Cold War arms race and China, where she provided insight into the last days of the Cultural Revolution, and covered Middle East diplomacy often from the vantage point of the Kissinger shuttle.
Later, at The New York Times she wrote obituaries of world figures including Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Yitzhak Rabin, Simon Peres and Teddy Kollek.
Retrieved March 20, 2011. After leaving The Washington Post, Berger went to work for NBC News, where she covered the Pentagon and then the White House, where her duties included on-camera reporting at the 1976 Democratic and Republican National Conventions.