Sydney Schanberg, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist dies

Q.  Who is the Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent who detailed the Khmer Rouge’s brutal rise to power in Cambodia in the 1970s?
- Published on 11 Jul 16

a. Sydney Schanberg
b. Sydney Smith
c. Sydney Copeland
d. None of the above

ANSWER: Sydney Schanberg
 
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 the age of 82.
  • The 1984 film The Killing Fields was inspired by him. The Roland Joffe directed movie captured Schanberg and friend Dith Pran’s captivity and survival under the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror

Related Content

➨ Post your comment / Share knowledge


Enter the code shown above:

(Note: If you cannot read the numbers in the above image, reload the page to generate a new one.)
▲