 After college, she took her vows as a Catholic nun and was known as Sister Jude Michael before leaving the convent after a year.Duffy worked at newspapers in Scranton and Cortland, New York before moving to Syracuse to work for the Herald-Journal, where she was a police beat reporter.She left that job in 1967 to work as a reporter at WHEN-AM and WHEN-TV (now WTVH).