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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sydney Schanberg dies at 82
July 09, 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 and won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge in 1975.
His colleague, Dith Pran, was unable to leave and his four-year ordeal inspired Schanberg's work.