Joel Brinkley, who won a Pulitzer for a series on Cambodian refugees, dies at 61

By Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post, Friday, March 14, 

Joel Brinkley, who followed his father, broadcast news commentator David Brinkley, into a journalism career and won a Pulitzer Prize for a harrowing series about Cambodian refugees after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime, died March 11 at a hospital in Washington. He was 61.

The cause was acute undiagnosed leukemia, which led to respiratory failure from pneumonia, said his wife, journalist Sabra Chartrand.

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American reporter Joel Brinkley dies

 

 

PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- A former New York Times reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime has died, the Associated Press reported.

The report late Thursday said Joel Brinkley, 61, died at a hospital in Washington this week from acute undiagnosed leukemia which led to respiratory failure from pneumonia.

Brinkley won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 while a reporter at the Louisville Courier-Journal. He shared the prize with photographer Jay Mather, the report said.

He joined the New York Times in Washington in 1983, staying for 23 years before teaching journalism at Stanford University.

The report said Brinkley authored or co-authored four books. "Cambodia's Curse: The modern history of a troubled land," released in 2011, was highly critical of Cambodia.