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About: Lara LoganLara Logan became CBS News’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent in June 2008. She will be based in Washington, D.C. As Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Ms. Logan will expand her international reporting responsibilities to include foreign affairs and international security issues, and U.S. policy as it is made across government departments and agencies. She will continue to travel internationally to cover major stories. Logan’s bold reporting from war zones over the past 17 years has earned her a prominent spot among the world’s best foreign correspondents. Lara Logan has been CBS News’ chief foreign correspondent since February 2006 when she also became a correspondent for 60 Minutes. Ms. Logan joined the Network in 2002 as a correspondent and a contributor to 60 Minutes II (2002-04). She reports regularly for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and periodically files reports on The Early Show and on Face The Nation in addition to her 60 Minutes duties. We expect to see her more frequently on all of these shows now that she will be located in Washington, D.C.
Lara Logan’s battlefield reports have been an integral part of CBS News’ coverage of the war in Iraq, both before and after U.S. troops moved into the country. She was the only journalist from an American network in Baghdad when the U.S. military invaded the city, reporting live from Firdos Square as the statue of Saddam fell. Since then, she has spent the majority of her time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Logan broke the story of the abuse of special needs Iraqi orphans on the CBS Evening News in June 2007, a report that made headlines around the world. Also that year, she reported from Pakistan on the death of Benazir Bhutto and its aftermath. Lara Logan’s reports for 60 Minutes have included a penetrating interview with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after the assassination of Bhutto; a rare one-on-one interview with Gen. John Abizaid when he was the Commander of United States Central Command; a report on the airport road in Baghdad, then the most dangerous piece of asphalt in the world; and a report on the U.S. military’s strategy for retaking Tal Afar, an Iraqi city held by insurgents that became the blueprint for doing the same in other strategic towns. Ms. Logan’s war-reporting from the frontlines of Afghanistan and with the Green Berets searching for Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden appeared on 60 Minutes II and on the CBS Evening News, The Early Show and CBS News Radio, for which she served as a general assignment reporter. While reporting for a 60 Minutes II story about the intense battle being waged at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in 2005, Lara Logan’s vehicle, traveling with the U.S. military, hit a double-tank mine. The explosion seriously wounded two soldiers; Lara escaped with minor injuries. Her other 60 Minutes II reports included an interview with the King of Swaziland, who was being sued by the mother of a girl who was taken to be his 10th wife, and a report on legalized assisted suicide in Switzerland. Lara Logan has received several awards and recognition for her war-time reporting from Iraa and Afghanistan including: an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts and Science, an Overseas Press Club Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award for "Ramadi: On the Front Line," a powerful 2006 report on American troops under fire in Ramadi, Iraq. The report was a piece Logan and her producer shot themselves while embedded with a U.S. military unit. Ms. Logan also received five American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards: in 2008 for Outstanding Feature-Hard News for the Iraqi orphans story; in 2004 for Individual Achievement for Best Reporter/Correspondent; in 2003 for Best News Story for her CBS Evening News report on the attempted assassination of Afghan President Hamid Kharzi; in 2002 for Best News Story for her CBS News Radio coverage of the war in Afghanistan; and in 2000 for Best News Story for her CBS News Radio coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She received the David Bloom Award in 2008 from the Radio & Television Correspondents Association for excellence in enterprise reporting and the 2007 Association of International Broadcasters’ Best International News Story Award for her report on the Taliban. Before joining CBS TV News in 2002, Ms. Logan had fourteen years of journalism experience, including 10 years reporting from the international broadcast news arena. Lara Logan served as a correspondent for GMTV, the weekday morning news program of Great Britain’s ITV (2000-02), and as a freelance correspondent for CBS News Radio, from which she occasionally appeared on the CBS Evening News. Logan reported on the war in Afghanistan, Middle East violence, the Mozambique floods, the land invasions in Zimbabwe and the India earthquake. Previously, Ms. Logan had served in a variety of freelance assignments, including as a correspondent for ITN and Fox/SKY, an assignment editor for CBS News and ABC News in London, and an editor/producer for NBC, CBS and the European Broadcast Union (1996-99). Logan also served as a freelance correspondent for CNN (1998-99), covering the U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania, the conflict in Northern Ireland and the war in Kosovo, among other stories. Lara Logan got her start in broadcast journalism in Africa as a senior producer for Reuters Television (1992-96). Logan began her career as a general news reporter for the Daily News (1990-92) and the Sunday Tribune (1988-89), both located in Durban, South Africa. Lara Logan was born in Durban, South Africa and graduated from the city’s University of Natal in 1992 with a degree in commerce. She also holds a diploma in French language, culture and history from the Universite de L’Alliance Francaise in Paris. In addition to French, Logan speaks Afrikaans and dabbles in Portuguese Main Source: CBS News
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