1950's Media | News is a Singular Thing

Memoir

By: Marguerite Higgins

Date: 1955

Source: Higgins, Marguerite. News is a Singular Thing. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955.

About the Author: Marguerite Higgins (1920–1966) was one of the most highly publicized news reporters during the 1950s. Although she had also reported on World War II, she gained her fame largely in Korea as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1951, her book War in Korea became a best-seller, and she won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. She later covered and wrote books about Vietnam and the Soviet Union and reported on the civil war in the Congo. In 1966, she died of a tropical disease she had contracted in Vietnam. In recognition of her war reporting she is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Introduction

The role of women in public life has long been a controversial...