Lara Logan Biography

Fast Facts

• Received the 2007 Association of International Broadcasters' Best International News Story Award and an Alfred I․ DuPont Silver Baton from Columbia University in 2010 for her field reporting in Afghanistan
• Attended high school at Durban Girls' College and the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, where she was born and raised, and graduated in 1992 with a degree in commerce
• Is the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News and the CBS series "60 Minutes․"
• Served as a correspondent for GMTV, a weekday morning news program, the CBS Evening News and ITN, also working as an assignment editor for CBS News and ABC News in London
• Was a senior producer for Reuters Television in Africa for four years
• While reporting a "60 Minutes II" story about the conflict near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in 2005, the military vehicle she was riding in hit a double-tank mine, killing two soldiers
• After being beaten and sexually assaulted while covering the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, spoke out months later in a "60 Minutes" interview to break the silence about sexual violence female reporters are reluctant to report
• Was the only journalist from an American network in Baghdad when the U․S․ military invaded the city and the statue of Saddam fell
• Holds a degree in the French language, culture and history from the Universite de L'Alliance Francaise in Paris, and speaks fluent French, Afrikaans and basic Portuguese