 She also co-founded the Edinburgh Festival Fringe newspaper "Festival Times" with Garfield Kennedy.In 1978 she began her professional broadcasting career as a producer and presenter at BBC Radio Scotland.She switched to television in 1981 as a presenter and newsreader at STV, then went freelance in 1986, moving on to anchor such national radio and television news programmes as "The World at One", "Channel 4 News", "The World This Week", "After Dark" and "International Question Time" and, in 1995, she received the first-ever 'Woman in Film and Television' Award.