‘Killing Fields’ reporter Sydney Schanberg dies

WASHINGTON: Sydney Schanberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who chronicled the Khmer Rouge’s brutal rise to power in Cambodia in the 1970s, died on Saturday

WASHINGTON: Sydney Schanberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who chronicled the Khmer Rouge’s brutal rise to power in Cambodia in the 1970s, died on Saturday at age 82. That gripping account by Schanberg and his story of his Cambodian friend and assistant’s captivity under and survival of the Khmer Rouge reign of terror inspired the 1984 film “The Killing Fields” by director Roland Joffe. Schanberg had suffered a massive heart attack on Tuesday. He died in Poughkeepsie, New York, said his friend and former colleague at The New York Times, Charles Kaiser.

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