Lara Logan

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name = Lara Logan


caption = CBS News correspondent Lara Logan in Iraq. US Army photo.
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Commerce
occupation = Journalist
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gender = Female
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title = CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
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credits = Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News (2006 - present), "60 Minutes" correspondent
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URL = http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/broadcasts/main531421.shtml

Lara Logan (born March 29, 1971) is a television and radio journalist and war correspondent. She is currently the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News, "60 Minutes" correspondent, filing reports for the "CBS Evening News" and the CBS Radio Network.

Early life

Logan was born in Durban, South Africa. She attended high school at Durban Girls' College, and then attended the University 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 Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa days after the September 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 in Afghanistan in November 2001, Logan, then working as a correspondent for the British morning program, "GMTV", infiltrated the U.S. and U.K. backed Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban and interviewed commander General Babajan at Bagram 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 the United Kingdom, is imminent. Logan complained to Howard 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]