- Lara Logan
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name = Lara Logan
caption = CBS News correspondent Lara Logan in Iraq. US Army photo.
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title =CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
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credits = Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent forCBS News (2006 - present), "60 Minutes " correspondent
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URL = http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/broadcasts/main531421.shtmlLara Logan (born
March 29 ,1971 ) is a television and radiojournalist andwar correspondent . She is currently the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent forCBS News , "60 Minutes " correspondent, filing reports for the "CBS Evening News " and theCBS Radio Network .Early life
Logan was born in
Durban ,South Africa . She attended high school atDurban Girls' College , and then attended theUniversity of Natal in Durban, graduating in 1992. [cite web
date= 2002-12-02
url= http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/60II/main531421.shtml
title= Lara Logan
publisher=CBS News
accessdate= 2008-06-20] [cite web
url= http://www.nndb.com/people/796/000048652/
title= Lara Logan
publisher=NNDB
accessdate= 2008-06-20]Career
Logan has described how she begged a clerk at the
Russia n Embassy inLondon to give her an expedited visa days after theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks .cite web
date= 2005-11-23
last= Steinberg
first= Jacques
authorlink= Jacques Steinberg
url= http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/arts/television/23loga.html
title= War Zone 'It Girl' Has a Big Future at CBS News
publisher=The New York Times
accessdate= 2008-06-20] While inAfghanistan in November 2001, Logan, then working as a correspondent for the British morning program, "GMTV ", infiltrated theU.S. andU.K. backed Northern Alliance fighting theTaliban and interviewed commander General Babajan atBagram Air Base . Logan spent much of the next four years reporting from the field in Afghanistan, traveling often as an embedded reporter with American forces.Logan was named chief foreign correspondent of
CBS News in February 2006.Haifa Street fighting
In late January 2007, Logan filed a report about fighting along
Haifa Street . [ [http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2371456n "Battle for Haifa Street"] , by Lara Logan, CBS News, accessed Feb 2, 2007.] When CBS News refused to run the report on the nightly news because the footage was "a bit strong" [http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/01/24/helping-lara-logan/ "Helping Lara Logan"] by Rory O'Connor and David Olson, Mediachannel.org, January 26, 2007, accessed February 1, 2007] (although the network did run the report on their internet site), 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." [ [http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/02/01/ap/entertainment/d8n0hj0o0.txt "CBS Correspondent Makes Plea for Airtime"] by David Bauder, Casper Star Tribune, February 1, 2007] Logan went on to use some of the Haifa Street material in a "60 Minutes " report about life in Baghdad under the surge.Personal life
Logan is in a relationship with a federal contractor from Texas whom she met in Iraq and plans to marry. She is pregnant with his child, due in January 2009.
As of July 2008 , her divorce from her previous husband, Jason Siemon, a professional basketball player in theUnited Kingdom , is imminent. Logan complained toHoward Kurtz of the "Washington Post " that her personal life had been "tabloid fodder."cite web
date= 2008-07-08
last= Kurtz
first= Howard
authorlink= Howard Kurtz
url= http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702662.html
title= Back From War, Into Tabloid Territory
publisher=The Washington Post
accessdate= 2008-07-08]References
External links
* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/60II/main531421.shtml CBS News profile]
* [http://usliberals.about.com/od/thepressandjournalist1/p/LaraLogan.htm About.com's Profile of Lara Logan, CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent]
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* [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/26/rs.01.html Logan appears on CNN's "Reliable Sources" with host Howard Kurtz] - Responds to question, "Are Media Turning Against War in Iraq?" (transcript)
* [http://www.liberalavenger.com/2006/08/29/lara-logan-responds/ Logan responds in print to criticism of media in Iraq]
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