She lives in Sebastopol, Calif. In 2010 she was awarded the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the University of Georgia for her work with the Chauncey Bailey Project in Oakland, Calif. She has won three Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, the UCLA Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk award, the National Headliner Award, several New York Times Company Chairman’s Awards and an Associated Press award for best business reporting. She was co-author of the New York Times best-selling book “Inside Job - The Looting of America’s Savings and Loans” published by McGraw-Hill (1989) and HarperCollins (1990).