His death was confirmed by former Times reporter Charles Kaiser, who said Schanberg had a heart attack Tuesday, the newspaper reported.
''Sydney Schanberg was an historic and courageous correspondent,'' Dean Baquet, executive editor of The Times, said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. ''He was part of a generation of war correspondents who made America understand what was truly happening in Vietnam and Cambodia.''
Besides his impressive journalism career, Sydney‘s life was also the inspiration behind the film The Killing Fields, which chronicled his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Cambodia.
Later in life, Sydney also wrote for Newsday, Life and The Village Voice.
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