 She joined the left-wing weekly, newspaper "Tribune" in 1943 as assistant editor, covering foreign affairs.She became a close friend of Orwell when he joined the paper later the same year, and her strong antipathy to communism played a major role in determining the paper’s political stance in the late 1940s, although she was considered obsessive about eastern Europe by some members of staff.She was joint editor of the "Tribune" from 1946 to 1952, sharing the job first with Jon Kimche and then with Michael Foot.