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 Polk Award for excellence in journalism 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

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Vietnam War correspondents
Journalists - R.W. Apple, Peter Arnett, Peter Braestrup, Malcolm Browne, Wilfred Burchett, Dickey Chapelle, Judith Coburn, Bernard Fall, Frances FitzGerald, Murray Fromson, Joseph L. Galloway, Martha Gellhorn, David Halberstam, Michael Herr, Seymour Hersh, Bernard Kalb, Stanley Karnow, Dale Minor, Roger Mudd, Dan Rather, Clete Roberts, John Sack, Morley Safer, Jonathan Schell, Sydney Schanberg, Neil Sheehan, Olivier Todd

Photographers - Eddie Adams, Larry Burrows, Robert Capa, Charles Chellapah, David Douglas Duncan, Charles Eggleston, Dirck Halstead, Henri Huet, Catherine Leroy, Tim Page


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