Lara Logan was a swimsuit model while attending college.[3] It was during her studies that Logan began working as a news reporter for the Sunday Tribune in Durban from 1988 to 1989, and found work with the Daily News, another Durban publication, between 1990 and 1992.[1] In 1992 she began working for Reuters Television in Africa, primarily as a senior producer.[1] After four years she branched out into freelance journalism, finding work and assignments as a reporter and editor/producer with ITN and Fox/SKY, CBS News, ABC News in London, NBC, and the European Broadcast Union. She also found work with CNN, reporting on incidents such as the U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the Kosovo war.[1] Logan was hired by GMTV breakfast television in the UK as a correspondent in 2000, and also worked with CBS News Radio as a freelance correspondent. Days after the attacks on 9/11, Logan begged a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her an expedited visa for travel into Afghanistan.[4] In November 2001, while in Afghanistan working for GMTV, Logan infiltrated theAmerican- and British-backed Northern Alliance and interviewed their commander, General Babajan, at the Bagram Air Base.[4]Her skill as a reporter, and her obvious bravery within war zones, persuaded CBS News to offer her an official role within their organisation in 2002. Logan spent much of the next four years reporting from the field, including war zones in Afghanistan andIraq, often as an embedded journalist with the American Armed Forces. Many of her reports were for "60 Minutes II", and she was also a regular contributor to shows such as "CBS Evening News", "The Early Show", and "Face The Nation" She was promoted to the position of the Chief Foreign Correspondent for CBS News in February 2006.[1] In late January 2007, Logan filed a report about fighting along Haifa Street in Baghdad.[5] When CBS News refused to run the report on the nightly news because the footage was "a bit strong,"[6] Logan tried to win public support to reverse this decision. Logan said, "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."[6][7] Logan went on to use some of the Haifa Street material during a 60 Minutes report about life in Baghdad under the surge. In June 2010, Rolling Stone magazine published an article written by Michael Hastings which quoted four-star Army General Stanley A. McChrystal and his staff contemptuously criticizing civilian government officials and leading to his retirement.[8][9] Logan criticized Hastings on CNN's Reliable Sources, saying there must have been ground rules that would have limited Hastings' reporting on what she characterized as "insults and banter". She said there is an "unspoken agreement" involving "an element of trust" where you don't "blindside" the military and described the general tenor of the article as sensationalistic.[10] In support of Logan's skepticism, ABC News reported that the military said the comments were thought to have been off the record. Rolling Stone contended that all ground rules had been followed.[11] Matt Taibbi, another journalist for Rolling Stone, criticized Logan for what he characterized as a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of journalism.[12] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.comsaid that Hastings was "exposing the relevant secrets of the powerful" whereas Logan was protecting them.[13] However, Logan defended her record for balanced reporting, citing her report of hand grenades killing troops.[10] A column in The Week argued that in one way Logan was right, quoting Max Fisher of The Atlantic that the military will now "shy away from reporters," making it more difficult to report to the public about the war.[14][15] CNN's former chief military correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, weighed in both criticizing and praising Logan and Hastings. He thought it irrelevant that Hastings had never served, as highlighted by Logan, and said the problem involved more than just "insults and banter."[16] On 3 February 2011, Time magazine reported that while covering the Egyptian Revolution, Logan and her crew were arrested by the Egyptian army in Cairo on suspicion of being Israeli spies.[17][18] Logan later said of the incident: "We were not attacked by crazy people in Tahrir Square. We were detained by the Egyptian army. Arrested, detained, and interrogated. Blindfolded, handcuffed, taken at gunpoint, our driver beaten. It's the regime that arrested us. They arrested [our producer] just outside of his hotel, and they took him off the road at gunpoint, threw him against the wall, handcuffed him, blindfolded him. Took him into custody like that."[17][19] On 15 February 2011, CBS News released a statement revealing that some four days earlier, Logan had been beaten and sexually assaulted while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square following the resignation of then President Hosni Mubarak.[20] CBS News indicated that she was overwhelmed along with her camera crew and security staff: "It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy. In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers." Logan returned to her hotel after the assault and was flown out of the country within hours on a chartered network jet.[21][22][23]
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