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May 25, 2010 · Sydney Schanberg has been a journalist for nearly 50 years. The 1984 movie “The Killing Fields,” which won several Academy Awards, was based on his book The Death and Life of Dith Pran. In 1975, Schanberg was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting “at great risk.”
Jul 9, 2016 · Sydney Schanberg was an historic and courageous correspondent. — Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times Schanberg and Dith were captured briefly by guerrillas, but later fled to the ...
Jun 6, 2018 · The New York Times correspondent Sydney H. Schanberg, center, with Dith Pran, right, interviewing a government soldier about the American bombing of Cambodia in August 1973.
Jul 9, 2016 · US journalist Sydney Schanberg, whose reporting inspired the Oscar-winning Hollywood film, The Killing Fields, has died at the age of 82, the New York Times reports. Schanberg worked for the Times ...
Jul 9, 2016 · US journalist Sydney Schanberg, whose reporting inspired the Oscar-winning Hollywood film, The Killing Fields, has died at the age of 82, the New York Times reports. Schanberg worked for the Times ...
Jul 10, 2016 · Sydney Schanberg, a former correspondent whose Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge inspired the movie "The Killing Fields," died on Saturday at age 82, the ...
Sydney Schanberg was born on January 17, 1934 in Clinton, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College, graduating with a B.A. in government in 1955, followed by two years in the army. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife, Jane Freiman, an editor and writer. He has two daughters — Jessica and Rebecca — and three grandchildren.
