10.07.2016 - 06:47 [ SCMP ]

Sydney H. Schanberg, whose coverage of Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields’ won Pulitzer, dies at 82

Sydney H. Schanberg, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times whose courageous reports about Cambodia’s takeover by the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in 1975 earned him the Pulitzer Prize and formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields, died July 9 at a hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was 82.