Lara Logan Special War Report on 60 Minutes
Sunday, October 19, 2008 7:00 PM Eastern (or at the conclusion of the NFL Football Game) on CBS
Don’t miss Lara’s important new report about the War on Terror in Afghanistan on the next 60 Minutes on CBS. Lara spends time with the brave and committed troops on the ground in Afghanistan: the lands which are devolving back into Taliban control and in which Osama bin Laden still hides more than seven years after September 11, 2001.
Lara Logan on CNN’s Reliable Sources
Sunday Morning, October 19, 2008 10:30 AM Eastern with Howard Kurtz
Previous News:
CBS Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan Moves To Washington, D.C.
Lara Logan, is now the newly appointed CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent (her most recent title was Chief Foreign Correspondent). Ms. Logan is also relocating her base of operations to the Washington, D.C. area. She will continue to be the chief foreign affairs / foreign news correspondent regarding foreign stories for all of the network’s news broadcasts, including the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes, as part of her expanded reporting duties.
The relocation from the battlefield to the home-front has been in process behind the scenes for many months. This USA move gives the intrepid, internationally famous foreign war correspondent a home base for the first time in many years.
Ms. Logan will cover foreign affairs, international security issues and United States policy, somewhat filling the role of State Department correspondent, which has been vacant for years. On Wednesday Mr. McManus was hesitant to label the move a promotion, instead calling it “an expansion of her role and an opportunity to get her on our CBS broadcasts more often.”
Ms. Logan signed a multiyear renewal of her CBS contract last winter. In an interview last week she said CBS News officials have supported her international reporting. “They wish me well, they give me whatever I need, and I’m gone,” she said.
Like any foreign correspondent, she said she would like more coverage of the world on television newscasts.
“I would like there to be more coverage of the wars,” she said. “I’d like there to be more money to have a bureau in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq. I’d like to see Zimbabwe on the air. That’s part of what my job is, to fight for those things.”*
We can all look forward to seeing much more of Lara on all CBS News programs, especially as the election season heats up and once the upcoming Presidential winner (whoever that may be) takes office next January, 2009.
Welcome Home, Lara!
and congratulations on your ‘bundle of joy’ to be
Recent NYTimes stories about war journalists and news business includes quotes from Lara Logan; and about * Lara Logan’s contract extension with CBS and her new USA–based reporting duties.
