Former NY Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg dies at 82

NEW YORK (AP) — Sydney H. Schanberg, a former correspondent for The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the genocide in Cambodia in 1975 — and whose story of the survival of his assistant inspired the film "The Killing Fields" — has died.

After being reunited in New York, Schanberg wrote a cover story for The New York Times magazine about Dith's harrowing experience, surviving beatings, starvation and backbreaking labor.

Ngor, a Cambodian who also survived the horrors, won an Academy Award for best supporting actor.

Besides the Pulitzer, he won two George Polk Memorial awards, two Overseas Press Club awards and Sigma Delta Chi's distinguished journalism prize.