Career
Afterward graduation Khalip got a job at the government paper Sovetskaya Belorussiya. She later went to work for the independent newspaper Imya ("Name").
After the closure of the Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta Khalip became a regular editor and reporter for the Minsk bureau of Novaya Gazeta (New Gazette), a newspaper based in Moscow.
In late 2009 Khalip began a complicated investigation about Emmanuel Zeltser, an American lawyer who spent 18 months in a Belarusian jail before being released through the intervention of the local American Embassy. Her research revealed a circle of relationships between the Belarusian KGB, Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, Berezovksy's attorney Peter Goldsmith, the heirs to Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, and the US Embassy in Belarus. Khalip sent a text of her journalistic investigation to the Novaya Gazeta editorial office on Saturday, November 22, 2009.