Lara Logan

Lara Logan
photograph
Logan in 2013
Born (1971-03-29) 29 March 1971 (age 53)
Durban, South Africa
EducationDegree in commerce, 1992
Alma materUniversity of Natal, Durban
Occupation(s)Journalist, since 1988
EmployerCBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent (2006–2018)
Spouses
Jason Siemon
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(m. 1998; div. 2008)​
Joseph Burkett
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(m. 2008)​
Websitelaralogan.com

Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971)[1] is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent. Logan's career began in South Africa with various news organizations in the 1990s. Her profile rose due to reporting around the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. She was hired as a correspondent for CBS News in 2002, eventually becoming Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent.

In 2013, a story of Logan's on the 2012 Benghazi attack caused significant controversy due to factual errors and was retracted, resulting in a leave of absence. Logan left CBS in 2018. After her departure from CBS, Logan began to make wide-ranging claims on a variety of conspiracy theories regarding topics such as the AIDS virus or the Rothschild family. In 2019, she joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative media company.[2] In January 2020, she joined Fox Nation, a subscription streaming service run by Fox News.[3] In March 2022, she said she had been "dumped" by the network.[4]

Since June 2022, Logan has been a board member of America's Future, a conservative nonprofit chaired by former Trump administration official Michael Flynn.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ Logan, Lara, entry: Current Biography Yearbook. Vol. 67. H. W. Wilson Company. 2006. p. 344.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wash2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Battaglio, Stephen (6 January 2020). "A combative Lara Logan plans a comeback on Fox News' streaming service. Can she succeed?". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 24 March 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  4. ^ Pengelly, Martin (9 April 2022). "Lara Logan, who compared Fauci to Mengele, says Fox News pushed her out". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Award-Winning Investigative Journalist Lara Logan Joins America's Future Board of Directors". America's Future. 1 June 2022. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Leadership". America's Future. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn 'at the center' of new movement based on conspiracies and Christian nationalism". PBS NewsHour. 7 September 2022. Archived from the original on 9 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.