Sydney Schanberg
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Sydney H. Schanberg (born January 17, 1934 in Clinton, Massachusetts) is an American journalist who is best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia.
His book The Death and Life of Dith Pran that was about the struggle for survival of his assistant Dith Pran in the Khmer Rouge regime inspired the film The Killing Fields. The character based on him in the film was played by Sam Waterston.
He won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting while working for The New York Times. He has also twice won the George F. Polk Award for excellence in journalism Award in 1971 and 1974.
Between 1986 and 1995 he was an associate editor and columnist for New York Newsday.
In 2006 Schanberg resigned as the Press Clips columnist for The Village Voice in protest over the editorial, political and personnel changes made by the new publisher, New Times Media.
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- The Death and Life of Dith Pran, Penguin, 1980 ISBN 0-14-008457-6
[edit] External links
- Village Voice Shakeup: Top Investigative Journalist Fired, Prize-Winning Writers Resign Following Merger with New Times Media Listen in Real Player. Download in MP3. Watch in 128K Real Player Video stream. Read Transcript. Host Amy Goodman interviews current and former staff James Ridgeway, Nat Hentoff, Tom Robbins, Sydney Schanberg and two reporters Mark Jacobson and Tim Redmond.
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| Journalists - Wilfred Burchett, Dickey Chapelle, Bernard Fall, John Sack, Sydney Schanberg
Photographers - Larry Burrows, Charles Chellapah, Charles Eggleston, Dirck Halstead, Henri Huet, Tim Page |
