(Travelwriters.com, 2004)

After leaving the armed forces, she followed in the footsteps of her grandfather, Robert K. Beach, and mother, Roberta Beach Johnson and became a journalist, joining the "Stars & Stripes" publication in Germany at the news desk, and later the city desk.During her "Stars & Stripes" work, Jacobson drew attention from a column entitled, "Dear Bobby" that ran from the late 1980s to the early 1990s in the "Shoppers Bi-Weekly News", distributed in Europe.