Jane worked as a researcher and journalist in Paris in the 1970s, inter alia for BBC's Panorama and Chronicle series, and The Observer colour magazine.

She stayed a year in Scotland between 1998 and 1999 to research the Dunmaglass claims and litigation in Inverness and Edinburgh archives.

Her main pieces in the 70s included: David McTaggart and the beginnings of Greenpeace, the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau and the Abbé Saunier (contributing to "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"), the excision of women in Africa (she was one of very few Western journalists to have been allowed to attend and photograph this ceremony).

She currently lives in Normandy, France.