She won the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 1987 for her coverage of the plight of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.[8][9] In 1992, she received a Distinguished Service award from the University of Wisconsin at Madison's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.[10] She left the Washington Post in 2008 after a nearly 30-year career, taking an early retirement package when the Post cut its staffing by 10%.[11]