Lara Logan

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Lara Logan (2013)

Lara Logan (* 29. March 1971 in Durban , South Africa ) is a South African television - and radio - journalist and war correspondent . She works as a foreign correspondent for CBS News . Their reports are published, among other things, by the show 60 Minutes .

Life

Logan attended Durban Girls' College High School and then enrolled at the University of Natal in Durban. She graduated there in 1992. Her husband, Jason Siemon, was a professional basketball player in the UK of the now defunct Brighton Bears .

Career

Just days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks , Logan asked an employee at the Russian Embassy in London to issue her with a visa. She then traveled through Afghanistan and southern Russia. From November 2001 Logan worked as a correspondent for the British morning program " GMTV " and was able to establish contact with high-ranking members of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. Among other things, she conducted an exclusive interview with "General Babajan" at Bagram Air Base . As chief correspondent, Logan reported for another four years as an embedded journalist for the American troops from this region. From 2005 to 2018 Logan was with CBS for broadcast 60 Minutes as a correspondent working.

"Haifa Street Controversy"

In late January 2007, Logan filed a report of fighting along Haifa Street , a two-mile long street in Baghdad , to CBS News. When CBS News refused to air it because it felt the footage was too violent, Logan tried to get it published with the help of the public. She sent out a mass e-mail with the following content: “ Please send this mail and the link to the video to as many people as possible. In my opinion everyone should have a chance to see this report. "

After this appeal spread the video, some bloggers and columnists claimed that the video report contained Al Qaeda footage . Although this claim could not be substantiated, it challenged Logan's objectivity. The fact that the report portrayed the US military as the main culprit also earned her the charge that it was "one-sided and anti-American".

CBS News Vice President Paul Friedman insisted that the video was not from Al Qaeda, but he refused to reveal the name of the source . He said, “ We usually publish our sources of information. "And added:" In special cases we need to keep our sources confidential. In this case it was a matter of "life and death ". When asked why the video can then be found on the Al-Qaeda website, CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius said: “It happens every day that a video is published in several places at the same time. We also use videos from an Al Qaeda website from time to time. In this case, however, it does not come from Al-Qaeda. "

Logan later used some of the Haifa Street footage in a 60-minute account of life in Baghdad.

Reporting from Tahrir Square on February 11, 2011

On February 11, 2011, the day when the then Egyptian President Husni Mubarak resigned , Lara Logan reported live about the cheers of the Egyptians for CBS on Cairo's “ Liberation Square ”. Her security guards could not prevent her being pushed away by about 200 men and cut off from her camera crew. Logan was the victim of brutal sexual assault until she was able to rescue a group of women and soldiers from an emergency. The next day she returned to the United States, where her injuries had to be hospitalized until February 16. In an interview with her 60 Minutes colleague Scott Pelley , she spoke publicly about her traumatic experiences in Cairo.

See also: Sexual violence in Egypt

Web links

Commons : Lara Logan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Battle for Haifa Street. In: CBS News , January 18, 2007 (video).
  2. ↑ Helping Lara Logan ( memento of March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Rory O'Connor and David Olson, Mediachannel.org, January 26, 2007
  3. ↑ Original: " I would be very grateful if any of you have a chance to watch this story and pass the link on to as many people you know as possible. It should be seen. And people should know about this. "
  4. ↑ [1] , David Bauder, Casper Star-Tribune, January 31, 2007
  5. ^ A CBS story 'too important to ignore' , Michelle Malkin, Jewish World Review, January 21, 2007
  6. Jump up ↑ Vent with Michelle Malkin , video, Jan. 31, 2007
  7. ↑ Interesting Controversy Surrounding CBS's Lara Logan , Nibras Kazimi's columnist for the New York Sun , Jan. 26, 2007
  8. ↑ CBS's Lara Logan Controversy: Round Two Was the Video CBS "Obtained" from Al Qaeda? ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Irag Slogger blog, January 30, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iraqslogger.com
  9. ^ A b Questions Surround Haifa Street Video , CBS News Public Eye blog, Jan. 30, 2007
  10. ↑ Original: " Whenever we can identify the source of information or video, we want to do that. There are some rare cases when we have to protect the source. In this case, we needed to do so, because it's literally a matter of life and death. "
  11. ↑ Original: " The fact that same video shows up in more than one place is something that happens every day. We occasionally use video from an Al-Qaeda Web site and we identify it. In this case, we didn't get it from Al-Qaeda, so we didn't identify it as such. "
  12. ^ CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests , CBS News, February 15, 2011
  13. ^ Lara Logan breaks silence on Cairo assault , CBS News, April 28, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Logan, Lara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Durban , South Africa