She oversees the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, which provides grants and editorial support to experienced journalists working on investigative and enterprise stories on critical issues related to the U.S. economy and business. She also dispenses scholarships and internship stipends to students concentrating on business journalism.

Sasseen spent 15 years at BusinessWeek, serving as Washington bureau chief, news editor and national correspondent before being named editor-in-chief for politics and opinion at Yahoo News. Earlier in her career, she worked for nine years in Europe, writing for Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune, and others before joining London-based International Management as Paris bureau chief.