Bernard Krisher

Bernard Krisher (née Bernhard Krischer; August 9, 1931 – March 5, 2019) was an American journalist and philanthropist, born in Germany to Polish-Jewish parents.

From 1959 to 1960 Krisher spent a year doing Japanese area and language studies at Columbia University as a Ford Foundation Advanced International Reporting Fellow.

Krisher launched the charity Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE which treated the poor for free.

He also founded and published The Cambodia Daily, a newspaper dedicated to setting up a sound foundation for a free press and training journalists.

[9] The Cambodia Daily's print publication based out of Phnom Penh was shut down by the Cambodian government in September 2017, but relaunched its operations offshore as an online-only news service in the following month.