Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Da yake zaune a London a 1962, yana aiki a matsayin mataimakin edita, Pilger ya shiga United Press na Burtaniya sannan kuma Reuters a kan teburin Gabas ta Tsakiya. A cikin 1963 an ɗauke shi zuwa "Daily Mirror" na Turanci, a matsayin mataimakin edita. Daga baya, ya ci gaba da zama mai ba da rahoto, marubuci, kuma Babban Wakilin Kasashen waje don taken. Yayin da yake zaune da aiki a Amurka don " Daily Mirror ", a ranar 5 ga Yuni 1968 ya shaida kisan gillar Robert F. Kennedy a Los Angeles a lokacin yakin neman zabensa. Ya kasance wakilin yaki a Vietnam, Cambodia,
Bangladesh da kuma Biafra. Kusan watanni goma sha takwas bayan Robert Maxwell ya sayi "Mirror" (a ranar 12 ga Yuli 1984), Richard Stott, editan jaridar, ya kori Pilger a ranar 31 ga Disamba, 1985.