", "War Zone "It Girl" Has a Big Future at CBS News", "Benghazi and the Bombshell. [5][12] The following year, she joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group on a temporary basis, as a correspondent reporting on the United States-Mexico border. ... Free eBook offer available to NEW US subscribers only. After being criticized for posting the hoaxes, Logan claimed that there was a campaign to "destroy" her, including by Media Matters for America. Logan instead focused on the portion of the tweet that mentioned a "traditional command structure" and argued that anarchists thus indeed had organizational structure. "And today the truth is we made a mistake. "[30], On 26 November 2013, Logan was forced to take a leave of absence due to the errors in the Benghazi report. Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent.She was a correspondent for CBS News between 2002 and 2018. Plus, get a FREE eBOOK when you sign up! [14][15], Logan was criticized in June 2010 for her remarks about another journalist, Michael Hastings, and her view that reporters who embed with the military ought not to write about the general banter they hear. She spent much of the next four years reporting from the battlefield, including war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, often embedded with the United States Armed Forces. "[6] Shortly thereafter, she joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Must redeem within 90 days. [41], South African journalist and war correspondent, "CBS News' Lara Logan, al Jazeera's Dorothy Parvaz win John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award for 2011", "Stella Foster recognized for journalism career", "Lara Logan and CBS News Have Parted Ways", "Lara Logan, late of CBS, joins Sinclair Broadcasting to cover U.S.-Mexico border", "A combative Lara Logan plans a comeback on Fox News' streaming service. Days after the September 11 attacks, she asked a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her a visa to travel to Afghanistan. A group of soldiers appeared, beat back the crowd with batons, and one of them threw Logan over his shoulder. [34][6] She described journalists as "political activists" and "propagandists" against President Trump. But if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility – and you have to say you were wrong. [11] In 2008 she married Joseph Burkett, a U.S. government defense contractor from Texas, whom she had met years before in Afghanistan. Glenn Greenwald of Salon wrote that she had done courageous reporting over the years, but had come to see herself as part of the government and military. [38][39], On June 4, 2020, Logan appeared on Hannity to claim that antifa was leaving "pallets of bricks" at protest sites in an attempt to stoke violence and destruction. [5] In 2019, she joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative media company. No one else reported seeing antifa trucks leaving pallets of bricks. Get updates about Lara Logan and recommended reads from Simon & Schuster. ... Books by Lara Logan. 1,586 talking about this. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! [28] CBS said it remained unclear who the attackers were, and unlikely that any will be prosecuted. [6] She said that by saying this she was doing something akin to "professional suicide. Get updates about Lara Logan and recommended reads from Simon & Schuster. [11][31] Al Ortiz, Executive Director of Standards and Practices for CBS News, wrote in a memo, "Logan made a speech in which she took a strong public position arguing that the U.S. Government was misrepresenting the threat from Al Qaeda, and urging actions that the U.S. should take in response to the Benghazi attack. 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. Plus, get a FREE eBOOK when you sign up! Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes? "You know the most important thing to every person at 60 Minutes is the truth," she said in the on-air apology on the morning show. She was also a regular contributor to the CBS Evening News, The Early Show and Face the Nation. She also stated that she hoped that the United States would "exact revenge" for the 2012 Benghazi attack, in which U.S. diplomatic personnel were attacked and killed in Libya. [1], Logan was hired in 2000 by GMTV Breakfast Television (in the UK) as a correspondent; she also worked with CBS News Radio as a freelance correspondent. Offer redeemable at Simon & Schuster's ebook fulfillment partner. The official Facebook fan page for Lara Logan. After four years she branched out into freelance journalism, obtaining assignments as a reporter and editor/producer with ITN and Fox/SKY, CBS News, ABC News (in London), NBC, and the European Broadcast Union. Can she succeed? In January 2020, she joined Fox Nation, a subscription streaming service run by Fox News. She went on to earn a diploma in French language, culture and history at Alliance Française in Paris. Fact-checkers found that claims of bricks being left at protest sites were baseless. [8] She graduated from the University of Natal in Durban in 1992 with a degree in commerce. One woman wearing a chador put her arms around Logan, and the others closed ranks around her, while some men who were with the women threw water at the crowd. Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), Lara Logan (60 Minutes), Gloria Vanderbilt - May 5-18, 2014 Ne… In hindsight, Logan said they learned that the story told by Davies did not match what he told federal investigators. On June 1, Logan tweeted a threat by the @ANTIFA_US Twitter account. But she also interviewed famous figures and explorers such as Robert Ballard, discoverer of the wreck of the RMS Titanic. Logan went on to add, "Nobody likes to admit they made a mistake. [13][14] To reverse the decision, Logan enlisted public support; requesting them to watch the story and pass the link to as many of their friends and acquaintances as possible, saying "It should be seen". Free eBook offer available to NEW US subscribers only. [21][22], On 15 February 2011, CBS News released a statement that Logan had been beaten and sexually assaulted on 11 February, while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square following Hosni Mubarak's resignation. And in this case we were wrong. [25][26], In October 2012, Logan delivered a speech before the annual luncheon of the Better Government Association in which she sharply criticized the Obama Administration's statements about the War in Afghanistan and other conflicts in the Arab world. [24][25][26][27], She said the incident involved 200 to 300 men and lasted around 25 minutes. She had been reporting the celebrations for an hour without incident when her camera battery failed. She went on to say that they tore off her clothes and, in her words, raped her with their hands, while taking photographs with their cellphones. They were advised to leave the country, but were later released. I mean, Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has." Correspondent on 60 Minutes, airing Sundays at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! [29], On 8 November 2013, Logan went on CBS This Morning to apologize for an inaccurate 60 Minutes report about the Benghazi attack, which had aired on 27 October. See full terms and conditions and this month's choices. Offer redeemable at Simon & Schuster's ebook fulfillment partner. One of the crowd shouted that she was an Israeli, a Jew, a claim that CBS said, though false, was a "match to gasoline". Quoting her statement, "I mean, the question is, really, is what General McChrystal and his aides are doing so egregious, that they deserved to end a career like McChrystal's? 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Hogan Distinguished Service Award, 2011, This page was last edited on 9 September 2020, at 22:06. She was a correspondent for CBS News between 2002 and 2018. Lara Logan is opening up about being gang-raped in Cairo while reporting on the resignation of then-president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. [11] In February 2006, Logan was promoted to "Chief foreign affairs correspondent" for CBS News. Driven by an insatiable desire to constantly improve and impact the world around us, Logan began her journalism career when she was a … "[37], On May 31, 2020, Logan tweeted a picture, which she claimed was an antifa riot instruction manual. CNN's former chief military correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, said that what they did was indeed egregious, and that her comments "unfortunately reinforced the worst stereotype of reporters who 'embed' with senior military officers but are actually 'in bed' with them. Next, Logan promoted a June 5 joke tweet which linked antifa to juggalos and a "clown hierarchy". ", "Back in the Spotlight, Lara Logan Wants to Keep Reporting: "I'm Not Done Yet, "CBS Correspondent Makes Plea for Airtime", "Obama Says Afghan Policy Won't Change After Dismissal", "Interview With Michael Hastings; Interview With Lara Logan", "Lara Logan's Egypt Interrogation Tell-All", "TIME Exclusive: CBS's Lara Logan and Crew Detained in Cairo As Violence Escalates", "CBS Says Lara Logan Suffered 'Brutal' Attack in Cairo", "Lara Logan breaks her silence. [40][41] They live in Washington, D.C., with their two children[42][41] and Burkett's daughter from a previous marriage. She felt hands touching her, and can be heard shouting "stop", just as the camera died.

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