Sydney Schanberg, a New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner, died this week in Poughkeepsie, New York, according to the New York Times. Schanberg's death was confirmed by his friend and colleague Charles Kaiser. According to Kaiser, Schanberg, 82, had a heart attack on Tuesday. The reporter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his coverage of Cambodia's fall to the Khmer Rouge. The Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields was based on his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Cambodia. Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran were two of the very few reporters, Western diplomats and government officials to ignore...
- 7/9/2016
- by Andrea Park, @scandreapark
- PEOPLE.com
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