 A factor in her early success was an exclusive interview she obtained with the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst in 1917 when Pankhurst was en route to Toronto.Ross left the "Toronto Daily News" in 1919 for a job as a general assignment reporter at the "New-York Tribune", becoming the second woman reporter (after Emma Bugbee) to be hired for this paper's city room.Among the stories she covered for the paper were the high-profile Hall–Mills murder case and Lindbergh baby kidnapping.