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Nate Thayer (born April 21, 1960) is a freelance journalist, whose journalism has focused on international organized crime, narcotics trafficking, human rights, and areas of military conflict. He is notable for having interviewed Pol Pot, in his capacity as Cambodia correspondent for the ''Far Eastern Economic Review'', a respected investigative publication that published from 1946 to 2009. ==Publications, honors and awards== Thayer has written for ''Jane's Defence Weekly'', ''Soldier of Fortune'', Associated Press and for more than 40 other publications, including ''The Cambodia Daily'' and ''The Phnom Penh Post''. Thayer’s reporting earned him the 1998 Francis Frost Wood Award for Courage in Journalism, given by Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York to a journalist "judged to best exemplify physical or moral courage in the practice of his or her craft."〔"Hofstra forms journalism award selection committee." ''Long Island Business News,'' April 6, 1998, Vol. 45 Issue 14, p. 19.〕 He was a visiting scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University as well as the first recipient of the Center for Public Integrity's ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting in November, 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ICIJ Journalists: Nate Thayer )〕 Upon awarding Thayer the ICIJ Award, the judges noted: :"He illuminated a page of history that would have been lost to the world had he not spent years in the Cambodian jungle, in a truly extraordinary quest for first-hand knowledge of the Khmer Rouge and their murderous leader. His investigations of the Cambodian political world required not only great risk and physical hardship but also mastery of an ever-changing cast of factional characters."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maud S. Beelman, "Reporting Across Borders," ''The Public i: Newsletter of the Center for Public Integrity,'' Vol 7, no. 2, Mar 1999. )〕 According to Vaudine England of the BBC, "Many of the region's greatest names in reporting made their mark in the pages of the ''Review'', from the legendary Richard Hughes of Korean War fame, to Nate Thayer, the journalist who found Cambodia's Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot." Thayer was also the first person in 57 years to turn down a prestigious Peabody Award, because he did not want to share it with ABC News' ''Nightline'' whom he believed stole his story and deprived him and the ''Far Eastern Economic Review'' of income.〔("Your scoop? Nah. It's ours if we want it" ) ''The Independent'', May 25, 1998〕〔Richard Linnett and Wayne Friedman, "Marketing the News: The Selling of Pol Pot", ''Advertising Age'', November 18, 2002, Vol. 73, Issue 46〕 Since 1999 Hofstra University's Department of Journalism and Mass Media Studies in the School of Communication has awarded the Nate Thayer Scholarship to a qualified student with the best foreign story idea. Winners are selected on the basis of scholastic achievement or potential as well as economic need.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hofstra University Student Information Package, Financial Aid Section, p. 45. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nate Thayer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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