July 1, 1950: New York Herald Tribune correspondent Homer Bigart travels to Korea to cover the escalating conflict, replacing Marguerite Higgins, who had been one of the first Western journalists on the scene when war erupted. But Higgins refuses to leave, and even gains an exemption from MacArthur when the military bans female reporters from the front lines. Despite their increasingly contentious battles to scoop each other, Higgins and Bigart share the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the war. Higgins becomes the first woman to receive a Pulitzer for foreign reporting.