From 1989 to 1998 Walsh was a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, reporting from various locations in Europe, Africa and North America.
Her reports from Europe for the Los Angeles Times received the Overseas Press Club of America citation for excellence in 1995.
Her 2002 reports with Walt Bogdanich and Barry Meier won the George Polk Award for Health Care.
[4] The same series of reports was also a finalist for the 2003 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism.
[5] Her Times reporting on public pensions, with Michael Cooper, won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for explanatory journalism in 2011.