Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1962 i noho ai ia ki Rānana, i te mahi hei kaiwhakaputa tuarua, ka uru atu a Pilger ki te British United Press, kātahi ki a Reuters i runga i tana teepu Middle-East. I te tau 1963 i whakauruhia ia e te "Daily Mirror" Ingarihi, ano hei kaitohutohu tuarua. I muri mai, ka eke ia hei kairipoata, he kaituhi korero, me te Kairipoata Matua mo te taitara. I a ia e noho ana me te mahi i te United States mo te "Daily Mirror", i te 5 o Pipiri 1968 i kite ia i te kohuru o Robert F. Kennedy i Los Angeles i te wa o tana kaupapa perehitini. He kairipoata pakanga ia i Vietnam, Cambodia,
Ko Bangladesh me Biafra. Tata ki te tekau ma waru marama i muri i te hoko a Robert Maxwell i te "Mirror" (i te 12 o Hurae 1984), i peia a Pilger e Richard Stott, te etita o te niupepa, i te 31 o Tihema 1985.