She received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina".

[2] Team members named by The Times were Pam Belluck, Helene Cooper, Fink, Adam Nossiter, Norimitsu Onishi, Kevin Sack, and Ben C.

[6] Fink went to assist refugees on the Kosovo-Macedonia border during the war in Kosovo[7] instead of attending her medical school graduation.

After graduating from college, Fink became involved in humanitarian aid work in disaster and war zones with the International Medical Corps, including Kosovo, Iraq, Bosnia, Macedonia and Mozambique.

[6] In August 2009 Fink published The Deadly Choices at Memorial, an investigative piece, in the New York Times Magazine.