Lara Logan named as 'One of the People to Watch in 2007'
Newsweek's 'Who's Next' Section of the December 25, 2006 issue.
Newsweek Magazine says of Lara Logan, CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent "her work speaks for itself."
The short article — subtitled "How a former swimsuit model became CBS's chief foreign correspondent" — is about the Movers and Shakers, Up and Coming, Most Interesting and Influential People to Watch in 2007. Thus Newsweek names Lara Logan the Media Figure who will make the most impact.
It gives an upbeat overview of Lara's accomplishments and bio including:
"…her antiapartheid parents taught her to question the government's racist policies. At 17, she sneaked out of her house in a cozy suburb of Durban and went exploring the black townships—an unheard-of risk for a white girl. "I discovered a whole world I didn't know existed," she says. By the time she graduated from high school, she was reporting for the Sunday Tribune in Durban."
And yes, we all know Lara Logan was once a swimsuit model — she is gorgeous as well as brilliant and brave. As the story notes however, her current work is breathtaking and newsmaking all at once: "She recently broke a story in Iraq about Sunnis getting killed after checking into Shiite hospitals."
Lara shares this short list of up and coming with power elites along the lines of Deval Patrick, Mitt Romney, Kathleen Sebelius, Ségolène Royal, Stephen Spieberg, Daisuke Matsuzaka and a few others of note (and maybe some not so deserving of attention).
One note about a successful Newsweek prognostication for 2006 was: Barack Obama.
Links to to the full Newsweek/MSNBC stories here and here.
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