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Lara Logan
CBS News correspondent Lara Logan in Iraq. US Army photo.
BornDurban, South Africa
EducationUniversity of Natal (Commerce), 1992
OccupationJournalist
Years active1988–present
Notable credit(s)Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News (2006– present)
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News(2008–present)
60 Minutes II correspondent (2002–2004)
60 Minutes correspondent (2006–present)
TitleCBS News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Websitehttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/broadcasts/main531421.shtml

Lara Logan is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent. She is currently the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News, a correspondent for 60 Minutes and appears in segments for CBS Evening News.

Early life

Logan was born in Durban, South Africa. She attended high school at Durban Girls' College, and later attended the University of Natal in Durban, graduating in 1992.

Career

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz answers questions during an interview April 15 with Lara Logan from 60 Minutes.

It was during her studies that Logan began working as a news reporter for the Sunday Tribune in Durban from 1988–89, and found work with the Daily News, another Durban publication, between 1990 and 1992. In 1992 she began working for Reuters Television in Africa, primarily as a senior producer. After four years she branched out into freelance journalism, finding work and assignments as a reporter and editor/producer with ITN and Fox/SKY, CBS News, ABC News (London), NBC, and the European Broadcast Union. She also found work with CNN, reporting on incidents such as the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the Kosovo war.

Logan was hired by GMTV breakfast television in the UK as a correspondent in 2000, and also worked with CBS News Radio as a freelance correspondent. Days after the attacks on 9/11, Logan begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa to travel to Afghanistan. In November 2001, while in Afghanistan working for GMTV, Logan infiltrated the American-and British-backed Northern Alliance and interviewed their commander, General Babajan, at the Bagram Air Base.

Her skill as a reporter persuaded CBS News to offer her an official role within their organisation in 2002. Logan spent much of the next four years reporting from the field, including war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, often as an embedded journalist with the American Armed Forces. Many of her reports were for 60 Minutes II, and she was also a regular contributor to shows such as CBS Evening News, The Early Show and Face The Nation. She was promoted to the position of the Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News in February 2006.

Haifa Street fighting

Main articles: Battle_of_Haifa_Street § Lara_Logan_report, and Battle of Haifa Street

In late January 2007, Logan filed a report about fighting along Haifa Street in Baghdad. When CBS News refused to run the report on the nightly news because the footage was "a bit strong," Logan tried to win public support to reverse this decision. Logan said, "I would be very grateful if any of you have a chance to watch this story and pass the link on to as many people you know as possible. It should be seen. And people should know about this." Logan went on to use some of the Haifa Street material during a 60 Minutes report about life in Baghdad under the surge.

Michael Hastings controvery

In June 2010 a Rolling Stone magazine article by Michael Hastings quoted both four-star Army General Stanley A. McChrystal and his staff contemptuously criticizing civilian government officials. McCrystal was relieved of his command on June 23, 2010. Logan said Hastings sensationalistic reporting had violated the "unspoken agreement" and "element of trust" with his use of what she called "insults and banter." ABC News reported that an unnamed source, identified as a "military official", had noted the lack of written ground rules between Hasting's staff and Hastings. The official nonetheless was confident that Hastings had published comments from what McChrystal staffers had assumed discussions that were were off-the-record. Rolling Stone editor Eric Bates countered that the magazine had abided by all of the several "express requests for off-the-record and background or not-for-attribution" made by the military.

Matt Taibbi posted on his Rolling Stone an entry entitled, "Lara Logan You Suck." He said "If there's a lower form of life on the planet earth than a "reputable" journalist protecting his territory, I haven't seen it", and said Logan was ignorant of journalistic responsibilities. Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said Logan had shown herself to be "like the most devoted member of McChyrstal's P.R. staff or even his family." CNN's former chief military correspondent, Jamie McIntyre said Logan' mention of Hastings lack of Military service was "clueless and unhelpful", adding that Logan's "ill-conceived attack" had "unfortunately reinforced the worst stereotype of reporters who “embed” with senior military officers but are actually “in bed” with them." In McIntyre's view, Logan's statements regarding Hastings has provided the "smoking gun" for those "looking for evidence combat reporters are too dazzled by the shiny stars on the commander’s epaulets."

Protests in Egypt

On 3 February 2011, Time magazine reported that while covering the Egyptian Revolution, Logan and her crew were arrested by the Egyptian army in Cairo. Logan said the government wanted to prevent further film coverage. She said that prior to the arrest: "We were heavily heavily intimidated and bullied" and "accused of being agents and spies for Israel." Logan later said of the arrest: "We were not attacked by crazy people in Tahrir Square. We were detained by the Egyptian army. Arrested, detained, and interrogated. Blindfolded, handcuffed, taken at gunpoint, our driver beaten. It's the regime that arrested us. They arrested just outside of his hotel, and they took him off the road at gunpoint, threw him against the wall, handcuffed him, blindfolded him. Took him into custody like that."

On 15 February 2011, CBS News released a statement revealing that some four days earlier, Logan had been beaten and sexually assaulted while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square following the resignation of then President Hosni Mubarak. CBS News indicated that she was overwhelmed along with her camera crew and security staff before being saved by a group of women and Egyptian soldiers. Logan returned to her hotel after the assault and was flown out of the country within hours on a chartered network jet.

Personal life

Logan's husband, Joseph Burkett, is a U.S. Federal Government defense contractor from Texas, whom she met in Afghanistan. They live in Washington, D.C., with their two-year-old son and Burkett's daughter. Her first husband, Jason Siemon, was a professional basketball player in the United Kingdom.

References

  1. ^ "Lara Logan". CBS News. 2002-12-02. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  2. "Lara Logan". NNDb. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  3. ^ Steinberg, Jacques (2005-11-23). "War Zone "It Girl" Has a Big Future at CBS News". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
  4. Logan, Lara (2007-01-18). "Battle for Haifa Street". CBS News. Retrieved 2007-02-02.
  5. ^ O'Connor R, Olson D (2007-01-26). "Helping Lara Logan". Mediachannel.org. Retrieved 2007-02-01.
  6. David, Bauder (2007-02-01). "CBS Correspondent Makes Plea for Airtime". Casper Star Tribune. Retrieved 2007-02-02.
  7. McChrystal, Stanley A. New York Times http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/stanley_a_mcchrystal/index.html?inline=nyt-per. Retrieved 26 March 2011. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. Hastings, Michael (22 June 2010). "The Runaway General". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  9. Cooper, Helene (24 June 2010). "Obama Says Afghan Policy Won't Change After Dismissal". The New York Times. pp. A1. Retrieved 30 June 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  10. Kurtz, Howard (27 June 2010). "Interview With Michael Hastings; Interview With Lara Logan". CNN. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  11. Martinez, Luis (25 June 2010). "Military Says Rolling Stone Broke Ground Rules on McChrystal Story". ABC News. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  12. Taibbi, Matt (28 June 2010). "Lara Logan, You Suck". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  13. Greenwald, Glen (28 June 2010). "The two poles of journalism". Salon.com. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  14. McIntyre, Jamie (30 June 2010). "Lara Logan's Friendly Misfire". Military.com. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
  15. ^ Kamer, Foster. "Lara Logan's Egypt Interrogation Tell-All: "The Army Is Not on the Peoples' Side. The Army Is on Its Own Side."". www.esquire.com. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  16. "TIME Exclusive: CBS's Lara Logan and Crew Detained in Cairo As Violence Escalates". TIME. 2011-02-03. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  17. Charlie Rose Interview with Lara Logan see minute 3:30–4:00 February 7, 2011. retrieved February 21, 2011
  18. "CBS's Logan suffered 'brutal' attack in Egypt". Yahoo!. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  19. "CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests". CBS News. 2011-02-15. Retrieved 2011-02-15. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers.
  20. "US reporter Lara Logan's brutal assault by mob in Egypt". The Daily Advertiser. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  21. "Lara Logan sexually assaulted and beaten In Egypt: CBS". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  22. "CBS reporter's Cairo nightmare 'Lara Logan set upon by mob in brutal sex attack'", New York Post. 16 February 2011
  23. "Lara Logan Gets Hitched". New York Daily News. 2008-11-12. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  24. Kurtz, Howard (8 July 2008). "Back From War, Into Tabloid Territory". Washington Post. Retrieved 17 March 2011. Last year, about two years after Logan and her husband had separated, she began a relationship with Michael Ware, a CNN correspondent in Iraq. Shortly after that romance ended in November, she started dating Burkett, a friend she had met years earlier when both were working in Afghanistan.
  25. Bates, Daniel. "'Think about your responsibilities as a mother': Lara Logan's old boss warns her she could become target for copycat attacks if she goes back to frontline", Daily Mail, 17 February 2011

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