2025 Hall of Fame Inductee:
Maggie Higgins, Class of 1941
Maggie Higgins, ’41 (posthumous), began her reporting career at the Daily Cal, where she covered topics ranging from theater to the Mexican Revolution to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or ROTC and worked as an editor in the night department.
During WWII, Higgins reported from the front lines, and was one of the first two Americans to reach Dachau, arriving before Allied troops on their way to liberate the camp. Higgins went on to report on the liberation of Buchenwald and the Nuremberg trials.
In 1950, Higgins was appointed to serve as chief of the Tribune’s Tokyo bureau, where she would win the Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for her Korean War coverage–the first woman to receive the award for Foreign Correspondence.
She died in 1966 at the age of 45.