[5] Close worked as the China editor in Hong Kong for the Far Eastern Economic Review in the mid-1960s.

[8] In 1996, she founded New America Media, which involved up to 3,000 ethnic news organizations in California, and served as its executive director until its closure in 2017.

[9] In 2018, Close founded Ethnic Media Services, a non-profit agency focused on developing cross-cultural journalism and marketing projects to promote inclusive public discourse.

[10] Close was a co-producer for the film Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 1996.

[11] Close was married to the historian and Asian affairs scholar Franz Schurmann from 1968 until his death in 2010.