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by Jessica Hodgson
Tuesday January 22, 2002
MediaGuardian.co.uk
Lara Logan, the GMTV presenter who scooped the broadcasting heavyweights in Afghanistan, is being groomed for a higher profile role at the broadcaster.
The 30-year-old journalist came to the attention of the media when she got closer to the frontline action than the armies of BBC, ITN and CNN correspondents who covered the bombardment.
GMTV today announced she was to have a bigger presence on the channel because she was such a hit with viewers.
Logan will present a series of five roaming reports from southern Africa on issues ranging from Aids to the growing crime problem.
She will report on the unfolding crisis in Zimbabwe and bring to light the difficulties faced by local journalists in reporting on the Mugabe government.
"Zimbabwe is so important at the moment," Logan told MediaGuardian.co.uk. "The bravery of the people there is so amazing.
"The moment the media have gone - the attention is gone," she said.
"Journalists in Britain have no idea what it's like - you get picked up and hassled and searched the whole time," she continued.
GMTV's chief executive, Paul Corley, said Logan would be presenting further special reports later in the year.
Logan hit the headlines when ITN's Asia correspondent, Julian Manyon, described her as "delectable" and said her "considerable physical charms" had helped her overcome the Taliban bureaucracy.
She hit back in an article on MediaGuardian.co.uk expressing surprise that Manyon used that "hoary old chestnut" about women trading on their good looks.
Logan paid tribute to journalists operating under the Mugabe government, and said she was applying for accreditation to be allowed to cover the forthcoming elections in the country.
She also talked about her experiences covering the bombing of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul, which she said was "so important for so many people".
And she excused the behaviour of John Simpson - the BBC's world affairs editor who famously claimed to have "liberated" the Afghan capital - putting it down to the euphoria in the area at the time.
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