She is the former London bureau chief for The Associated Press (AP) where she spent a decade managing the news bureau as well as writing about terrorism, security, and intelligence before joining the AP's international investigations team.
She joined the AP in 1994 to cover the South African elections that brought Nelson Mandela to power.
After nearly three years covering post-Apartheid South Africa, she worked for the AP in Miami, Little Rock and Boston before joining the international desk in New York.
Her primary and most frequent reporting assignments included Haiti and Guantanamo Bay; she broke several investigative pieces about abuse in the U.S. prison camp.
She is the recipient of the George Polk award for her foreign reporting in Haiti that covered numerous disasters, conflict and the rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.