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Marguerite Higgins Hall (September 3, 1920 – January 3, 1966) was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II , the Korean War , and the Vietnam War , and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents. [1]
Became reporter, New York Herald Tribune (1942–44), war and foreign correspondent (1944–47), chief, Berlin bureau (1947–50), chief, Tokyo bureau (1950–51), staffer (1951–58), diplomatic correspondent, Washington (1958–63); was a columnist for Newsday (1963–65).
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Jun 8, 2018 · American journalist Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) gained respect among fellow reporters, the U.S. military, and the American public for her courage and determination as a war correspondent. She was most recognized for her front-line reports of the Korean War in the 1950s, which earned her the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.
Jul 15, 2020 · Newspaper reporter Marguerite Higgins was the first female war correspondent to win the Pulitzer Prize, breaking down a number of gender barriers.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 Marguerite Higgins, the columnist and war correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for her front-line reports from Korea, died today in Walter Reed Army Hospital.
As the Herald Tribune’s Tokyo correspondent in 1950, Higgins was one the first reporters to reach Korea when hostilities broke out. She later reported from Vietnam, where she contracted a tropical disease that proved to be mortal.
Nov 1, 2023 · From the cover of the journalist and best-selling writer Jennet Conant’s biography of the superstar war reporter Marguerite “Maggie” Higgins, its subject beams at the camera.
