Who was the first Filipino to receive a Pulitzer Prize?

Carlos P. Romulo, who became President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1949, was the first Filipino to win a Pulitzer Prize. Romulo was awarded the 1942 Pulitzer for Correspondence (now called International Reporting) while working as a reporter for the Philippines Herald for "his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia."