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Lara Logan: Early Journalism Career Development
At 17 years old Lara got a job reporting on the anti-apartheid struggle for a South African newspaper. Lara's experience with the paper stood her in good stead and following her graduation from university with a Bachelor of Commerce, Lara started a job with Reuters Television where she spent five years in the foreign affairs department.This position prepared her well for her current position as war correspondent since she had to report on the violence in South Africa and on the wars in Angola and Mozambique. Despite this being her first position in television she was given a great deal of responsibility handling such tasks as covering feature stories, breaking news and big events such as the 1995 World Cup, the South African elections and the Queen's first visit.
But Lara didn't want to stay in South Africa forever and once her feet got itchy she relocated to London, England where she was employed by ABC news as a Foreign Assignments Editor.
Before long though she grabbed an opportunity to step up the career ladder again and quit from ABC to take a position at Fox/Sky presenting a series about the environment. This was perhaps one of Lara's most rewarding positions taking her to Australia where she lived on a boat and spent her days scuba diving with Great White sharks and later to Siberia where she got to live with the Chukchi people for six weeks.
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