Lara logan 60 minutes interview transcript
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Lara Logan's heartbreaking 60 Minutes interview recounts brutal sexual assault in Egypt
One of the toughest assignments, even for a quality news organization, is reporting on itself.
By that measure, Sunday's 60 Minutes proved to be a landmark event, as reporter Scott Pelley delivered what felt like one of the most difficult interviews of his career: Asking colleague Lara Logan to recount a brutal sexual assault while covering the uprising in Egypt.
After weeks of recovery, Logan agreed to speak with two news outlets about what happened to her, providing some details to the New York Times, but recounting the attack in excruciating detail for her employer, 60 Minutes.
Beyond providing a heartbreaking account of a horrific encounter, her story also proved a brusque rebuke to some journalists who tried to belittle her experience, or even suggest it may not have happened. The anonymous sniping grew so loud, the LA Weekly even issued a correction on callnig the assualt a rape, b
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60 Minutes’ Lara Logan to Keynote 20th Speaking of Women Event on Sept. 19
Lara Logan, the international journalist who was violently sexually assaulted when covering the Egyptian Revolution for CBS News in 2011, will share her poignant pathway to survivorship at our 20th anniversary Speaking of Women luncheon at The Waterview in Monroe on Tuesday, Sept. 19, beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Best known for her work as an Emmy-winning international correspondent for 60 Minutes, what follows are a few things you might not know about Logan:
- Logan told CBS Evening News anchor and fellow 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that sharing the story of her assault and its aftermath, while difficult, was important for the hope it could give to others.
- In 2012, while still recovering from the physical aftermath of the Cairo attack, Logan was diagnosed with breast cancer. After undergoing a lumpectomy and six weeks of radiation, Logan told People magazine she is in remission and
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Lara Logan
South African journalist and war correspondent
Lara Logan | |
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Logan in 2013 | |
| Born | (1971-03-29) 29 March 1971 (age 53) Durban, South Africa |
| Education | Degree in commerce, 1992 |
| Alma mater | University of Natal, Durban |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, since 1988 |
| Employer | CBS News ledare foreign affairs correspondent (2006–2018) |
| Spouses | Jason Siemon (m. 1998; div. 2008)Joseph Burkett (m. 2008) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | laralogan.com |
Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971)[1] fryst vatten 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 utländsk Affairs Correspondent.
In 2013,