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Born: 1971
Birthplace: Durban, South Africa
Best known as: Intrepid international reporter for CBS
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Lara Logan's reports from Afghanistan, Iraq and other global hot spots earned her a job reporting for CBS News in 2002. Only 31 at the time, Logan had already spent more than a dozen years in the news business, beginning with jobs writing for The Daily News and The Sunday Tribune of Durban, South Africa while attending the University of Natal. After graduating in 1992 she worked in a wide variety of journalism jobs: as a producer for Reuters Television, a freelance correspondent for CNN, and as a correspondent for the British morning news program GMTV, where she began to be known for her international reporting. Upon joining CBS in 2002 she became a correspondent for the network's radio news and the magazine program 60 Minutes II as well as for The CBS Evening News. Logan's good looks are part of her story: she modeled swimsuits for local advertisements while in college, was a favorite of British tabloids while with GMTV, and was called a "War Zone 'It Girl'" in a 2005 New York Times profile.
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Extra: Logan was mentioned as a possible successor to Dan Rather as anchor of The CBS Evening News, a job later won by Katie Couric... Logan married pro basketball player Jason Siemon in 1999; Siemon was born in Iowa but has played professionally in Europe.
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Girlfriend smacks it down on Howie Kurtz, Laura Ingraham and all the media hatas something fierce....BRAVA! I can't explain the combination of exhilaration and pride I felt first reading the transcript, then watching the segment. Here's where she smacks down Laura Ingraham for dissing journos in Iraq for only "reporting from hotel balconies."
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Correspondent Logan Anxious To Return To Baghdad
1 June 2006 (StudioBriefing)
CBS Correspondent Lara Logan says that the killing of two of her colleagues and the critical wounding of another won't deter her from returning to Baghdad. Now working on a story in Sudan, Logan told the Philadelphia Inquirer,"I have a constant commitment to the story and to the people. ... When you're invested in a place and in the people, every time you leave there, you feel like you're abandoning them." However, another colleague, Jake Tapper, told the Inquirer, "The fear is considerable. ... Obviously, it's an important story, but it's nerve-wracking to be there. You have to decide when it's worth it to risk your life." And John Berman of ABC, who has made nine trips to Iraq, said that he worries about the odds for returning again. "It's the 'sooner or later' of it, if I keep pushing it," said Berman. ... "I've been nine times now. Thank God I've been safe nine times. Is 10 times too many?" Meanwhile, CBS reported today (Thursday) that correspondent Kimberly Dozier has regained consciousness and asked about her fellow crew members. In a message to CBS personnel, CBS President Sean McManus said, "Her family and doctors agreed, if she asked, that she should be told what happened ... and they did so." Dozier reportedly remained in critical but stable condition at a medical facility in Germany.
Anchors "Parachuted" Into Middle East
17 July 2006 (StudioBriefing)
As hostilities escalated in the Middle East, network and cable news operations began shifting resources to the region. NBC's Brian Williams and ABC's Charles Gibson were reportedly heading toward the Middle East. On CBS Friday, correspondent Lara Logan in Israel became a de facto co-anchor of The CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer as she coordinated reports from the turbulent region. Fox News dispatched Shepard Smith and Bill Hemmer overseas, while CNN bolstered its CNN International coverage and combined it with its U.S. telecasts; Anderson Cooper has been airing his 360 program from the Middle East hot spots since last week. MSNBC, which ordinarily offers mostly canned programming on weekends, substantially increased the number of hours of live news reports.
CBS Iraq Reporter Responds to Bush, Cheney
27 March 2006 (StudioBriefing)
CBS correspondent Lara Logan reacted angrily over the weekend to comments by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that the news media are not reporting on progress on the rebuilding of Iraq and are focusing on violence there instead. Interviewed in Baghdad for the CNN program Reliable Sources, Logan said, "I really resent the fact that people say that we're not reflecting the true picture here. That's totally unfair and it's really unfounded." She said that it is generally difficult to report on reconstruction because reporters are hamstrung by the increasingly difficult security situation preventing them from moving about the country. Indeed, Logan indicated that reporters like herself have exercised restraint in reporting negative stories about the conduct of U.S. military personnel. "If you had any idea of the number of Iraqis that come to us with stories of abuses of U.S. soldiers and you look at my coverage over the last few weeks, or even over the last three years, there's been maybe two or three stories that have related to that." Besides, she said, she has been under increasing pressure from CBS editors to show more positive stories, but when she asks the U.S. embassy in Baghdad to allow her to film them, she has been turned down in almost every instance because "security dominates every single thing that happens in this country."
CBS Brings Its Top Reporters to the Fore
3 February 2006 (StudioBriefing)
CBS News President Sean McManus wasted no time finding a permanent replacement for John Roberts, who announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the network and going to CNN. McManus said that correspondent Jim Axelrod, head of CBS's New England bureau, will take over Roberts' duties (although it was not clear whether that also included anchoring the weekend edition of the CBS Evening News). McManus also announced that Lara Logan, who has impressed many critics with her coverage from Iraq and Afghanistan and, like Roberts, was once seen as a possible replacement for Dan Rather, was named chief foreign correspondent, a position that was left unfilled after Tom Fenton retired in 2004. Finally McManus said that Byron Pitts, who distinguished himself during the 9/11 coverage, will become national correspondent, and also report on "a new area of concentration -- faith, family and the culture." In an interview with the TVNewser blog, CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer observed that the news division was attempting to "identify the people who are going to play a major role at CBS News." In that regard, he said: "When a big story happens overseas, Lara will be there. And it's kind of the same for Byron, on stories in this country. And then Axelrod will be at the White House." He described the three as "very old-fashioned reporters ... the kind of reporters who think the best way to do it is go to the scene, ask people what the story is, and then tell people about it."
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CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan "estimates she's spent two days in her London apartment." Gail Shister notes that "she doesn't keep plants or pets, but she does have a husband, in Chicago."
"Basically, I have no life," Logan says. "I don't want to live like this forever. It would definitely be tragic...I think about kids all the time, but I don't want to be an absent mother. I can't even plan a vacation, a life."
> Also in Shister's column: Steve Capus talks about his job and the dangers his colleagues face in Iraq...
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Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist
No fear.Though colleague Bob Schieffer describes her as fearless, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan doesn't see herself that way.
"Everybody has different thresholds," says Logan, 35, who's been in Iraq for more than two of the last three years. "When I'm in the field, my priority is reading the situation around me and getting my job done."
Logan says she's lost journalistic friends and colleagues in combat, including some who were hacked to death in her native South Africa.
"When I go into a situation, I'm not thinking, 'Oh my God, I'm not going to get shot.' Some people might say it's fearless. Others say it's insane... . If I believe it's a reasonable risk to take, I'll take it."
In the last year, Logan estimates she's spent two days in her London apartment. (She doesn't keep plants or pets, but she does have a husband, in Chicago.)
"Basically, I have no life," Logan says. "I don't want to live like this forever. It would definitely be tragic... . I think about kids all the time, but I don't want to be an absent mother. I can't even plan a vacation, a life."
Original source: Philadelphia Inquirer
