Lara Logan
Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) 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.
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| Born | 29 March 1971 Durban, South Africa |
| Education | Degree in commerce, 1992 |
| Alma mater | University of Natal, Durban |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, since 1988 |
| Employer | CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent (2006–2018) |
| Spouses | Jason Siemon
(m. 1998; div. 2008)Joseph Burkett (m. 2008) |
| Website | laralogan |
In 2013, a story of Logan's on the 2012 Benghazi attack caused significant controversy due to factual errors and was retracted, resulting in a leave of absence.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. In January 2020, she joined Fox Nation, a subscription streaming service run by Fox News. In March 2022, she said she had been "dumped" by the network.
Since June 2022, Logan has been a board member of America's Future, a conservative nonprofit chaired by former Trump administration official Michael Flynn.