Sydney Hillel Schanberg (born January 17, 1934 in Clinton, Massachusetts) is an American journalist who is best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia. Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Clinton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends The Kingdom of Cambodia ( formerly known as Kampuchea (, transliterated: Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchea) is a country in South East
Schanberg joined The New York Times as a journalist in 1959. He spent much of the early 1970's as a Vietnam War correspondent for Times. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia For his reporting, he won the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism twice, in 1971 and 1974. The George Polk Awards are a series of American journalism awards issued annually by Long Island University in Brooklyn.
Before the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975 and killed approximately 2 million people, Schanberg wrote positively in The New York Times about the coming regime change, writing about the Cambodians that "it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone. The Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម Kmae Krɑhɑɑm was the Communist ruling political party of Cambodia &mdashwhich it renamed The Kingdom of Cambodia ( formerly known as Kampuchea (, transliterated: Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchea) is a country in South East " A dispatch he wrote on April 13, 1975, written from Phnom Penh, ran with the headline "Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life. Phnom Penh ( Khmer: ភ្នំពេញ official Romanization Phnum Pénh; pʰnum pɯɲ is the Capital "[1] However, in the same piece, Schanberg also wrote, "This is not to say that the Communist-backed governments which will replace the American clients can be expected to be benevolent. Already, in Cambodia, there is evidence in the areas led by the Communist-led Cambodian insurgents that life is hard and inflexible, everything that Cambodians are not. "
He won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his Cambodia coverage. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs including United Nations correspondence
His 1980 book The Death and Life of Dith Pran, was about the struggle for survival of his assistant Dith Pran in the Khmer Rouge regime. Dith Pran ( September 27 1942 &ndash March 30 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and The Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម Kmae Krɑhɑɑm was the Communist ruling political party of Cambodia &mdashwhich it renamed The book inspired the 1984 film The Killing Fields, in which Schanberg was played by Sam Waterston. The Killing Fields is a 1984 British film drama about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston (born November 15 1940) is an American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Jack McCoy
Between 1986 and 1995, he was an associate editor and columnist for New York Newsday. Newsday is a daily Tabloid -size Pulitzer Prize winning Newspaper that primarily serves Long Island and the New York City
In 1992, Schanberg received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Elijah Parish Lovejoy ( November 9 1802 &ndash November 7 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, Doctor of Laws ( Latin: Legum Doctor, LLD) is a Doctorate -level Academic degree in Law. Colby College, founded in 1813, is an American private liberal arts college located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville Maine.
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. This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. The New Times Media corporation was a national publisher of Alternative weekly newspapers
Bibliography
- Schanberg, Sydney (1980). The Death and Life of Dith Pran. Penguin. ISBN 0140084576.
- Schanberg, Sydney (1984). The Killing Fields: The Facts Behind The Film. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
References
- ^ "American leftists were Pol Pot's cheerleaders", Jeff Jacoby, April 30, 1998
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