Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ba da daɗewa ba ya yi abokantaka da Van Lear Black, wani Ba'amurke mai kuɗi da kuma mawallafin "The Baltimore Sun" wanda ke hutu a London. Black ya dauke shi a matsayin mataimakinsa na sirri, tare da MacColl yana tare da shi a kan tafiyar mil 200,000 a Turai, Afirka da Dutch East Indies a cikin jirgin Fokker wanda Black ya yi hayar daga KLM. Bayan dawowarsa Amurka a watan Satumbar 1927, Black ya ba MacColl aiki a "The Baltimore Sun" a matsayin wakilin yanki, wanda ya karɓa. Ya shafe shekaru biyu yana ba da rahoto a Baltimore, a lokacin da ya sadu da matarsa, Helen, tare da wanda zai sami 'ya'ya biyu. Ya koma Ingila a 1929 kuma ya shiga "The Daily Telegraph", inda ya ruwaito abubuwan da suka faru a gida da kuma jirgin, ciki har da coronation na George VI
, bikin auren Zog I na Albania da yakin basasar Spain, tare da MacColl kasancewa ɗaya daga cikin 'yan jarida na farko da suka shiga Madrid bayan faɗuwarta zuwa Franco a watan Maris na 1939.