John McLaughlin Higgins (April 17, 1961 – November 21, 2006) was an American reporter and editor specializing in the cable television industry.
Beginning in 1989 he joined Multichannel News where, as financial editor, he covered the cable television industry and related media.
Richard Parsons, CEO of Time Warner, assessed Higgins as "an outstanding journalist and one of the smartest and best-informed reporters on our beat.
"[2] A former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Richard Wiley, said after Higgins's death: "I thought he was a terrific journalist...
Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University announced the establishment of the John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting.