--- description: Foreign correspondents, most of them in the Korean war, marched off with top working-press honors (and $500 apiece) this week in the 1950 Pulitzer Prize award list. Instead of one award for... title: The Press: Distinction Under Fire image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # The Press: Distinction Under Fire by [TIME](/author/time/) May 14, 1951 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) May 14, 1951 4:00 AM CUT Foreign correspondents, most of them in the Korean war, marched off with top working-press honors (and $500 apiece) this week in the 1950 Pulitzer Prize award list. Instead of one award for international reporting, there were six. The six: The New York Herald Tribune’s Marguerite Higgins and Homer Bigart (a two-time winner, TIME, Aug. 27, 1945 et seg.); the Chicago Daily News’s Keyes Beach and Fred Sparks; and Associated Press’s Relman Morin and Don Whitehead. A.P.’s Max Desfor won the picture prize with a shot of refugees fleeing across a war-wrecked bridge in Korea; the New York Times’s roving European correspondent, Cyrus Sulzberger, a special citation for his European interviews. On the home news front, .the Columbia University trustees gave no prize for national coverage. Other awards: For meritorious public service, the Miami Herald (for its gambling exposes) and the Brooklyn Eagle (for its pre-Kefauver stories on New York crime). Best fiction: Conrad Richter, for his novel, The Town. Biography: Margaret Louise Coit, for John C. Calhoun: American Portrait. History: R. Carlyle Buley, for The Old Northwest; Pioneer Period, 1815-1840. Poetry: Carl Sandburg, for Complete Poems. Music: Douglas Stuart Moore, for a three-act opera, Giants In the Earth. Local news reporting: The San Francisco Examiner’s Edward S. Montgomery, for a series exposing corruption in the local Internal Revenue office. Editorial writing: William Harry Fitzpatrick of the New Orleans States, for a series on the constitutional limits on U.S. treaties. Cartooning: The Arizona Republic’s Reginald (“Reg”) Manning, for his cartoon, “Hats,” contrasting the sleek toppers of U.N. diplomats with a G.I.’s bullet-punctured helmet. For 1950 drama there was no award. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6868339/the-press-distinction-under-fire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6868339/the-press-distinction-under-fire/"},"headline":"The Press: Distinction Under Fire","datePublished":"1951-05-14T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T20:38:46.671Z","description":"Foreign correspondents, most of them in the Korean war, marched off with top working-press honors (and $500 apiece) this week in the 1950 Pulitzer Prize award list. Instead of one award for...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6868339/the-press-distinction-under-fire/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6868339/the-press-distinction-under-fire/","name":"The Press: Distinction Under Fire"}}]}] ```