Lara Logan#Reporting from Egypt and sexual assault

Logan was born in Durban, South Africa, and attended high school at Durban Girls' College.{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/796/000048652|title=Lara Logan|publisher=NNDb|access-date=20 June 2008|archive-date=21 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821172516/http://www.nndb.com/people/796/000048652/|url-status=live}} She graduated from the University of Natal in Durban in 1992 with a degree in commerce. She earned a diploma in French language, culture and history at Alliance Française in Paris.{{cite web|date=2 December 2002|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/60II/main531421.shtml|title=Lara Logan|work=CBS News|access-date=16 April 2020|archive-date=19 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719081011/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/02/60ii/main531421.shtml|url-status=dead}} Throughout high school and college, Logan worked as a swimsuit model.{{cite web|date=12 June 2023|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/07/lara-logan-60-minutes-correspondent-conspiracy-theories/674168/|title=A Star Reporter's Break With Reality| first= Elaina |last=Plott Calabro |publisher=The Atlantic| access-date= 24 October 2023 | archive-date= 27 July 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230727150458/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/07/lara-logan-60-minutes-correspondent-conspiracy-theories/674168/}}

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Logan worked as a news reporter for the Sunday Tribune in Durban during her studies (1988–1989), then for the city's Daily News (1990–1992). In 1992, she joined Reuters Television in Africa, primarily as a senior producer. After four years she branched out into freelance journalism, obtaining assignments as a reporter and editor/producer with ITN and Fox/SKY, CBS News, ABC News (in London), NBC, and the European Broadcasting Union. She worked for CNN, reporting on incidents such as the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the Kosovo War.

Logan was hired in 2000 by GMTV Breakfast Television (in the UK) as a correspondent; she also worked with CBS News Radio as a freelance correspondent. Days after the September 11 attacks, she asked a clerk at the Russian Embassy in London to give her a visa to travel to Afghanistan. In November 2001, while in Afghanistan working for GMTV, she infiltrated the American-British-backed Northern Alliance and interviewed their commander, General Babajan, at the Bagram Air Base.{{cite web|date=23 November 2005|last=Steinberg|first=Jacques|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/arts/television/23loga.html|title=War Zone "It Girl" Has a Big Future at CBS News|work=The New York Times|access-date=22 February 2017|archive-date=15 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015182513/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/arts/television/23loga.html|url-status=live}}

CBS News offered her a full-fledged correspondent position in 2002. She spent much of the next four years reporting from the battlefield, including war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, often embedded with the United States Armed Forces. But she also interviewed famous figures and explorers such as Robert Ballard, discoverer of the wreck of the {{RMS|Titanic}}.{{cite web|title=Bob Ballard, The Great Explorer|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-ballard-the-great-explorer-10-06-2010/|website=CBS, 60 Minutes|date=10 June 2010|access-date=9 January 2017|archive-date=10 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110015403/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-ballard-the-great-explorer-10-06-2010/|url-status=live}} Many of her reports were for 60 Minutes II. She was also a regular contributor to the CBS Evening News, The Early Show and Face the Nation.{{cite news |first=Joe |last=Hagan |title=Benghazi and the Bombshell. Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes? |url=https://nymag.com/news/features/lara-logan-cbs-news-2014-5/ |newspaper=New York |date=4 May 2014 |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=21 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421180726/https://nymag.com/news/features/lara-logan-cbs-news-2014-5/ |url-status=live }} In February 2006, CBS News named Logan their chief foreign affairs correspondent.

In late January 2007, Logan filed a report of fighting along Haifa Street in Baghdad, but the CBS Evening News did not run the report, deeming it "a bit strong".{{cite news |last=Logan |first=Lara |date=18 January 2007 |title=Battle for Haifa Street |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2371456n |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208035739/http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2371456n |archive-date=8 February 2007 |access-date=2 February 2007 |work=CBS News}}{{cite web |title=Helping Lara Logan |url=http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/01/24/helping-lara-logan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100521231504/http://mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/01/24/helping-lara-logan/ |archive-date=21 May 2010 |access-date=1 February 2007 |publisher=Mediachannel.org}} To reverse the decision, Logan enlisted public support, asking people to watch the story and pass the link to as many of their friends and acquaintances as possible, saying, "It should be seen".{{cite news |last=David |first=Bauder |date=1 February 2007 |title=CBS Correspondent Makes Plea for Airtime |url=http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/02/01/ap/entertainment/d8n0hj0o0.txt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802171248/http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/02/01/ap/entertainment/d8n0hj0o0.txt |archive-date=2 August 2012 |access-date=2 February 2007 |newspaper=Casper Star Tribune}}

Logan left CBS News in August 2018.{{Cite news |last=Steinberg |first=Brian |date=19 February 2019 |title=Lara Logan and CBS News Have Parted Ways |language=en |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lara-logan-cbs-news-1203142584/ |access-date=19 February 2019 |archive-date=19 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219184952/https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lara-logan-cbs-news-1203142584/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lara-logan-back-spotlight-wants-keep-reporting-q-a-1189865|title=Back in the Spotlight, Lara Logan Wants to Keep Reporting: "I'm Not Done Yet"|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 25, 2019|language=en|access-date=March 3, 2019|archive-date=4 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304021721/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lara-logan-back-spotlight-wants-keep-reporting-q-a-1189865|url-status=live}} The following year, she joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group on a temporary basis, as a correspondent reporting on the United States–Mexico border.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lara-logan-late-of-cbs-joins-sinclair-broadcasting-to-cover-us-mexico-border/2019/04/10/e19a62de-5b3d-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html?noredirect=on|title=Lara Logan, late of CBS, joins Sinclair Broadcasting to cover U.S.-Mexico border|date=10 April 2019|last=Farhi|first=Paul|access-date=10 April 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-date=10 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410212548/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lara-logan-late-of-cbs-joins-sinclair-broadcasting-to-cover-us-mexico-border/2019/04/10/e19a62de-5b3d-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html?noredirect=on|url-status=live}}

In October 2022, Logan was banned from right-wing television network Newsmax for what the network described as "reprehensible statements" during an interview where she said that "the open [United States-Mexico] border is Satan’s way of taking control of the world through all of these people who are his stooges and his servants ... You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches and that while they dine on the blood of children?"{{cite news |last1=Yang |first1=Maya |title=Newsmax bans Lara Logan after QAnon-tinged on-air tirade |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/21/newsmax-lara-logan-qanon-conspiracy-theory |access-date=October 22, 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=22 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022090442/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/21/newsmax-lara-logan-qanon-conspiracy-theory |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=What Lara Logan said to get booted from right-wing Newsmax |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2022/10/21/what-lara-logan-said-to-get-booted-from-right-wing-newsmax/ |access-date=October 22, 2022 |work=CNN and The Orange County Register |date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=22 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022090438/https://www.ocregister.com/2022/10/21/what-lara-logan-said-to-get-booted-from-right-wing-newsmax/ |url-status=live }}

While introducing Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin at a February 2024 conference, Logan told an audience that she had come to realize that Pizzagate "is all true."{{cite news |title=Days before appearing on a U.S. senator's panel, Lara Logan says Pizzagate "is all true" |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/lara-logan/days-appearing-us-senators-panel-lara-logan-says-pizzagate-all-true |publisher=Media Matters for America |date=February 26, 2024}}

Logan was criticized in June 2010 for her remarks about another journalist, Michael Hastings, and her view that reporters who embed with the military ought not to write about the general banter they hear. An article by Hastings in Rolling Stone that month quoted General Stanley A. McChrystal and his staff—comments Hastings overheard while traveling with McChrystal—criticizing then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and other officials, after which President Barack Obama fired McChrystal as his commander in Afghanistan.{{cite news|date=22 June 2010|last=Hastings|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Hastings (journalist)|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624014247/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236/|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 June 2010|title=The Runaway General|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=9 March 2014}}{{cite news|date=23 June 2010|last1=Cooper|first1=Helene|author-link1=Helene Cooper|last2=Sanger|first2=David E.|author-link2=David E. Sanger|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/us/politics/24mcchrystal.html?scp=1&sq=mcchrystal%20resigns&st=cse|title=Obama Says Afghan Policy Won't Change After Dismissal|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=9 March 2014|archive-date=11 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511094227/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/us/politics/24mcchrystal.html?scp=1&sq=mcchrystal%20resigns&st=cse|url-status=live}} Logan told CNN that Hastings's reporting had violated an unspoken agreement between reporters who travel with military personnel not to report casual comments that pass between them.{{cite web|date=27 June 2010|last=Kurtz|first=Howard|author-link=Howard Kurtz|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/27/rs.01.html|title=Interview With Michael Hastings; Interview With Lara Logan|website=CNN|access-date=30 June 2010|archive-date=1 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701052019/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/27/rs.01.html|url-status=live}}

Quoting her statement, "I mean, the question is, really, is what General McChrystal and his aides are doing so egregious, that they deserved to end a career like McChrystal's? I mean, Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has." CNN's former chief military correspondent Jamie McIntyre said that what they did was indeed egregious, and that her comments "unfortunately reinforced the worst stereotype of reporters who 'embed' with senior military officers but are actually 'in bed' with them."{{cite web|date=30 June 2010 |last=McIntyre |first=Jamie |author-link=Jamie McIntyre |url=http://www.lineofdeparture.com/2010/06/30/lara-logans-friendly-misfire |title=Lara Logan's Friendly Misfire |publisher=Line of Departure |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104033236/http://www.lineofdeparture.com/2010/06/30/lara-logans-friendly-misfire |archive-date=4 January 2012 }} He went on to quote Admiral Mike Mullen's statement that military personnel must be neutral and should not criticize civilian leaders.

Glenn Greenwald, commenting on the incident for Salon, wrote that Logan's segment was an example of what journalism had "degenerated into". Greenwald said that Logan had done courageous reporting over the years, but had come to see herself as part of the government and military.{{cite news|date=28 June 2010|last=Greenwald|first=Glen|author-link=Glenn Greenwald|url=https://www.salon.com/2010/06/28/journalism_9/|title=The two poles of journalism|work=Salon|access-date=19 February 2019|archive-date=20 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220003037/https://www.salon.com/2010/06/28/journalism_9/|url-status=live}}

Logan and her CBS crew were arrested and detained for one night by the Egyptian Army on 3 February 2011, while covering the Egyptian revolution. She said the crew was blindfolded and handcuffed at gunpoint, and their driver beaten. They were advised to leave the country, but were later released.{{cite web|last=Kamer|first=Foster|title=Lara Logan's Egypt Interrogation Tell-All|url=http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/lara-logan-egypt-5219471|newspaper=Esquire|date=11 February 2011|access-date=15 February 2011|archive-date=5 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105085341/http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/lara-logan-egypt-5219471|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|title=TIME Exclusive: CBS's Lara Logan and Crew Detained in Cairo As Violence Escalates|url=https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/03/time-exclusive-cbss-lara-logan-and-crew-detained-in-cairo-as-violence-escalates/|date=3 February 2011|magazine=Time|access-date=4 February 2011|archive-date=4 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204201157/http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/03/time-exclusive-cbss-lara-logan-and-crew-detained-in-cairo-as-violence-escalates/|url-status=live}}

On 15 February 2011, CBS News released a statement that Logan had been beaten and sexually assaulted on 11 February, while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square following Hosni Mubarak's resignation.{{cite news |last=Stelter |first=Brian |url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/cbs-lara-logan-suffered-brutal-attack-in-cairo/?scp=5&sq=Lara+Logan&st=nyt |title=CBS Says Lara Logan Suffered 'Brutal' Attack in Cairo |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 February 2011 |access-date=3 May 2011 |archive-date=5 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705091156/http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/cbs-lara-logan-suffered-brutal-attack-in-cairo/?scp=5&sq=Lara+Logan&st=nyt |url-status=live }} 60 Minutes broadcast an interview with her about it on 1 May 2011; she said she was speaking out because of the prevalence of mass sexual assault in Egypt, and to break the silence about the sexual violence women reporters are reluctant to report in case it prevents them from doing their jobs.{{Cite web|title=Lara Logan breaks her silence|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO12X1nhzzk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424095225/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO12X1nhzzk|archive-date=24 April 2020|url-status=bot: unknown|date=1 May 2011|website=YouTube|access-date=3 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/28/60minutes/main20058368.shtml|title=Lara Logan breaks her silence|work=60 Minutes|publisher=CBS|date=May 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114044000/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/28/60minutes/main20058368.shtml|archive-date=November 14, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-the-assault-lara-logan-comes-home/

|title=After the assault: Lara Logan comes home|work=60 Minutes|publisher=CBS|date=1 May 2011}}{{cite news|first=Brian|last=Stelter|author-link=Brian Stelter|date=April 28, 2011|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/business/media/29logan.html|title=CBS Reporter Recounts a 'Merciless' Assault|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=22 February 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201134336/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/business/media/29logan.html?scp=2&sq=Lara+Logan&st=nyt|url-status=live}}

She said the incident involved 200 to 300 men and lasted around 25 minutes. She had been reporting the celebrations for an hour without incident when her camera battery failed. One of the Egyptian CBS crew suggested they leave, telling her later he heard the crowd make inappropriate sexual comments about her. She felt hands touching her, and can be heard shouting "stop", just as the camera died. One of the crowd shouted that she was an Israeli Jew, a claim that CBS said, though false, was a "match to gasoline". She said that they tore off her clothes and, in her words, raped her with their hands, while taking photographs with their cellphones. They began pulling her body in different directions, pulling her hair so hard she said it seemed they were trying to tear off chunks of her scalp. She was dragged along the square to where the crowd was stopped by a fence, alongside which a group of women were camping. One woman wearing a chador put her arms around Logan, and the others closed ranks around her, while some men who were with the women threw water at the crowd. A group of soldiers appeared, beat back the crowd with batons, and one of them threw Logan over his shoulder. She later said she thought she was dying during the assault. She was flown back to the U.S. the next day, where she spent four days in the hospital. She was contacted by President Barack Obama when she arrived home.{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/15/60minutes/main20032070.shtml |title=Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests |work=CBS News |date=15 February 2011 |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=13 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113073249/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/15/60minutes/main20032070.shtml |url-status=dead }} CBS said that the identity of the attackers remained unclear, and that it was unlikely that any would be prosecuted.

In October 2012, Logan delivered a speech before the annual luncheon of the Better Government Association in which she sharply criticized the Obama administration's statements about the War in Afghanistan and other conflicts in the Arab world. In particular, Logan criticized the administration's claims that the Taliban was weakening in Afghanistan, calling such claims "a major lie" made in preparation for ending the U.S. military role in that country. She also stated that she hoped that the United States would "exact revenge" for the 2012 Benghazi attack, in which U.S. diplomatic personnel were attacked and killed in Libya.{{cite news | title=CBS News and reporter Lara Logan face brutal criticism on flawed Benghazi report | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=November 12, 2013 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cbs-news-and-reporter-lara-logan-face-brutal-criticism-on-flawed-benghazi-report/2013/11/11/b2f55d8c-4b1f-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html | access-date=November 5, 2021 | archive-date=16 April 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416192621/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cbs-news-and-reporter-lara-logan-face-brutal-criticism-on-flawed-benghazi-report/2013/11/11/b2f55d8c-4b1f-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html | url-status=live }}

On 8 November 2013, Logan went on CBS This Morning to apologize for an inaccurate 60 Minutes report about the Benghazi attack, which had aired on 27 October. She indicated that an investigation uncovered that the source of much of her reporting was inaccurate and blamed it on Dylan Davies, manager of the local guard force at the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi. Logan said he lied about information and insisted they looked into his credibility and relied on such things as photographs and documents he supplied. In hindsight, Logan said they learned that the story told by Davies did not match what he told federal investigators. "You know the most important thing to every person at 60 Minutes is the truth," she said in the on-air apology on the morning show. "And today the truth is we made a mistake. And that's ah ... that's very disappointing for any journalist. That's very disappointing for me." Logan went on to add, "Nobody likes to admit they made a mistake. But if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility – and you have to say you were wrong. And in this case we were wrong."{{cite web|first=Marisa|last=Guthrie|date=November 8, 2013|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/60-minutes-benghazi-report-lara-654610|title=Lara Logan Apologizes For '60 Minutes' Benghazi Report on 'CBS This Morning|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=16 April 2020|archive-date=11 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211160255/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/60-minutes-benghazi-report-lara-654610|url-status=live}}

On 26 November 2013, Logan was forced to take a leave of absence due to the errors in the Benghazi report.{{cite news |last=Carter |first=Bill |date=26 November 2013 |title='Leave of Absence' for Lara Logan After Flawed Benghazi Report |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/business/media/leave-of-absence-for-lara-logan-after-flawed-benghazi-report.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=26 November 2013 |archive-date=27 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127023715/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/business/media/leave-of-absence-for-lara-logan-after-flawed-benghazi-report.html |url-status=live }} Al Ortiz, executive director of Standards and Practices for CBS News, wrote in a memo, "Logan made a speech in which she took a strong public position arguing that the U.S. Government was misrepresenting the threat from Al Qaeda, and urging actions that the U.S. should take in response to the Benghazi attack. From a CBS News Standards perspective, there is a conflict in taking a public position on the government’s handling of Benghazi and Al Qaeda, while continuing to report on the story."{{cite news | first = Michael | last = Calderone | title = CBS News' Lara Logan Taking Leave of Absence Over Discredited '60 Minutes' Benghazi Report | date = 27 November 2013 | url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/lara-logan-60-minutes-leave_n_4344883.html | work = HuffPost | access-date = 11 December 2013 | archive-date = 8 December 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131208225910/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/lara-logan-60-minutes-leave_n_4344883.html | url-status = live }}{{cite news |date=26 November 2013 |title=CBS asks Lara Logan to take leave after flawed Benghazi report |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-asks-lara-logan-to-take-leave-after-flawed-benghazi-report/ |work=CBS News |access-date=26 November 2013 |archive-date=27 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127024200/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-asks-lara-logan-to-take-leave-after-flawed-benghazi-report/ |url-status=live }}

She subsequently sued New York Magazine for $25 million for their reporting on the fallout.{{Cite web |agency=Associated Press |date=December 19, 2019 |title=Ex-'60 Minutes' reporter Lara Logan sues New York magazine over Benghazi retraction |url=https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2019/12/ex-60-minutes-reporter-lara-logan-sues-new-york-magazine-over-benghazi-retraction.html |access-date=March 28, 2022 |website=syracuse |language=en |archive-date=12 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512025909/https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2019/12/ex-60-minutes-reporter-lara-logan-sues-new-york-magazine-over-benghazi-retraction.html |url-status=live }} The suit was dismissed with prejudice.{{Cite web |title=Docket for Logan v. Hagan, 1:19-cv-01208 - CourtListener.com |url=https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16584679/logan-v-hagan/ |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=CourtListener |language=en-us |archive-date=28 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328220404/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16584679/logan-v-hagan/ |url-status=live }}

After leaving CBS News, Logan began to criticize the media, which she said had a liberal bias.{{Cite web|first=Claire|last=Atkinson|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/former-cbs-news-correspondent-lara-logan-adds-sinclair-broadcasting-s-n992766|title=Former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan adds to Sinclair Broadcasting's national ambitions|website=NBC News|language=en|date=April 9, 2019|access-date=April 10, 2019|archive-date=11 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411023952/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/former-cbs-news-correspondent-lara-logan-adds-sinclair-broadcasting-s-n992766|url-status=live}} She described journalists as "political activists" and "propagandists" against President Donald Trump. She said that making these comments was akin to "professional suicide". Shortly thereafter, she joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a right-wing media group.{{Cite web|first=Jeremy|last=Barr|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lara-logan-joining-sinclair-broadcast-group-1200424|title=Former CBS News Reporter Lara Logan Joining Sinclair|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=9 April 2019|language=en|access-date=2019-04-10|archive-date=10 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410232103/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lara-logan-joining-sinclair-broadcast-group-1200424|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/lara-logan-returns-to-tv-as-a-right-wing-heroine-at-sinclair-condemning-moral-cowards-at-cbs|title=Lara Logan Returns to TV as a Right-Wing Heroine at Sinclair, Condemning 'Moral Cowards' at CBS|last=Grove|first=Lloyd|work=The Daily Beast|date=April 10, 2019|access-date=April 10, 2019|language=en|archive-date=10 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410232103/https://www.thedailybeast.com/lara-logan-returns-to-tv-as-a-right-wing-heroine-at-sinclair-condemning-moral-cowards-at-cbs|url-status=live}} Since then, Logan has tweeted right-wing conspiracy theories, such as speculating that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her election to office because of some unspecified plot operated by unknown entities Logan believes control antifa activists.

In 2020, Logan was hired by Fox News to do a series of shows called Lara Logan has No Agenda. The Los Angeles Times observed that "Despite the 'No Agenda' slogan, Logan does plan to wade back into the topic of media bias."{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-01-06/combative-lara-logan-gets-ready-for-a-comeback-on-fox-news-streaming-service|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en|access-date=2020-01-13|date=6 January 2020|title=Combative Lara Logan gets ready for a comeback on Fox News streaming service|archive-date=24 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324061058/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-01-06/combative-lara-logan-gets-ready-for-a-comeback-on-fox-news-streaming-service|url-status=live}}

On 31 May 2020, Logan tweeted a picture, which she claimed was an antifa riot instruction manual. The picture actually was an updated hoax dating to the 2015 Baltimore riots. On 1 June, Logan tweeted a threat by the @ANTIFA_US Twitter account. The account turned out to be fake and linked to Identity Evropa, a white nationalist organization. After being criticized for posting the hoaxes, Logan claimed that there was a campaign to "destroy" her, including by Media Matters for America.{{cite news |last1=Baragona |first1=Justin |last2=Sommer |first2=Will |author-link2=Will Sommer |title=Lara Logan, the Fox 'Investigative Journalist' Who Keeps Falling for Antifa Hoaxes |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/lara-logan-the-fox-nation-investigative-journalist-who-keeps-falling-for-antifa-hoaxes |access-date=11 June 2020 |work=The Daily Beast |date=11 June 2020 |archive-date=14 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614084412/https://www.thedailybeast.com/lara-logan-the-fox-nation-investigative-journalist-who-keeps-falling-for-antifa-hoaxes |url-status=live }}

On 4 June 2020, Logan appeared on Hannity to claim that antifa was leaving "pallets of bricks" at protest sites in an attempt to stoke violence and destruction. Fact-checkers found that claims of bricks being left at protest sites were without foundation, and that pictures submitted as evidence of this activity were actually taken at ordinary construction sites. No one else reported seeing antifa trucks leaving pallets of bricks. Next, Logan promoted a 5 June joke tweet which linked antifa to juggalos and a "clown hierarchy". Logan instead focused on the portion of the tweet that mentioned a "traditional command structure" and argued that anarchists thus indeed had organizational structure.

In September 2021, Logan accused the Biden administration of "hiding evidence" of side effects supposedly caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.{{Cite web |last=Goldblatt |first=Daniel |date=2021-09-11 |title=Lara Logan Accuses Biden Administration of 'Hiding Evidence' of COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects (Video) |url=https://www.thewrap.com/lara-logan-accuses-biden-administration-of-hiding-evidence-of-covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-video/ |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=TheWrap |language=en-US |archive-date=30 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330110854/https://www.thewrap.com/lara-logan-accuses-biden-administration-of-hiding-evidence-of-covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-video/ |url-status=live }} She also shared a false story about 27 U.S. Air Force pilots resigning over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate from Real Raw News, a fake news website.{{Cite web |last=Dale |first=Daniel |author-link=Daniel Dale |date=2021-09-11 |title=Fact-checking the false but viral story about F-22 pilots resigning after a vaccination text from the secretary of defense |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/politics/fact-check-f-22-pilots-quit-vaccine-secretary-of-defense/index.html |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=CNN |language=en |archive-date=16 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016062803/https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/politics/fact-check-f-22-pilots-quit-vaccine-secretary-of-defense/index.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Bill |date=2021-09-27 |title=PolitiFact investigation: A look behind Real Raw News' sensational (and fabricated) headlines |url=https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/a-look-behind-real-raw-news-sensational-and-fabricated-headlines/ |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=Poynter Institute |language=en-US |archive-date=23 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023101106/https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/a-look-behind-real-raw-news-sensational-and-fabricated-headlines/ |url-status=live }}

In November and December 2021, Logan promoted falsehoods and conspiracy theories about AIDS and COVID-19. She shared articles that disputed the scientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS.{{Cite news|first=Sam|last=Sokol|date=December 2, 2021|title=Fox Host Lara Logan Retweets Defense of Fauci Comparison to Nazi Doctor Mengele|language=en|work=Haaretz|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-fox-host-lara-logan-doubles-down-on-comparing-fauci-to-nazi-doctor-mengele-1.10434842|access-date=2021-12-11|archive-date=7 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407083704/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-fox-host-lara-logan-doubles-down-on-comparing-fauci-to-nazi-doctor-mengele-1.10434842|url-status=live}} She compared NIAID director Anthony Fauci to the Nazi scientist Josef Mengele. During a discussion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, she said: "And so in that moment, what you see on Dr Fauci, this is what people say to me, that he doesn’t represent science to them. He represents Josef Mengele, Dr Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the second world war and in the concentration camps, and I am talking about people all across the world are saying this."{{Cite web|last=Pengelly|first=Martin|date=November 30, 2021|title=Outrage as Fox News commentator likens Anthony Fauci to Nazi doctor|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/30/anthony-fauci-josef-mengele-fox-news|access-date=November 30, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130152707/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/30/anthony-fauci-josef-mengele-fox-news|url-status=live}}

Several prominent Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Auschwitz Museum, condemned her remarks.{{Cite web|last=Darcy|first=Oliver|date=November 30, 2021|title=Anti-Defamation League and Auschwitz Museum condemn Fox host for comparing Fauci to Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at death camp|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/30/media/lara-logan-fauci-auschwitz-museum-anti-defamation-league/index.html|access-date=November 30, 2021|website=CNN|archive-date=30 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130202934/https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/30/media/lara-logan-fauci-auschwitz-museum-anti-defamation-league/index.html|url-status=live}} Logan subsequently retweeted criticisms of the Auschwitz Museum. During a December 2021 interview with MSNBC, Fauci called Logan's remarks "absolutely preposterous and disgusting", and criticized Fox News for not taking disciplinary action against her.{{Cite news |last=Bever |first=Lindsey |date=December 3, 2021 |title=Fauci criticizes Fox News for silence after pundit Lara Logan compares him to Nazi doctor |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/12/03/fauci-fox-nazi-comment/ |access-date=April 9, 2022 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=16 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716094010/https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/12/03/fauci-fox-nazi-comment/ |url-status=live }} United Talent Agency dropped Logan as a client shortly after her Mengele comment.{{cite news|title=UTA Drops Lara Logan After Comments Comparing Anthony Fauci To Josef Mengele|url=https://deadline.com/2022/01/lara-logan-uta-anthony-fauci-comments-1234914050/|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=January 17, 2022|first1=Ted|last1=Johnson|first2=Dominic|last2=Patten|author-link2=Dominic Patten|access-date=18 January 2022|archive-date=18 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118153439/https://deadline.com/2022/01/lara-logan-uta-anthony-fauci-comments-1234914050/|url-status=live}}

Since making her comment, Logan has not appeared as a guest on Fox News, and there have been no new episodes of Lara Logan Has No Agenda. In March 2022, Logan said that she had been "dumped" by Fox.

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Logan in her television appearances linked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to "satanic, occult" practices, called him a "puppet" and claimed that he had been "selected [...], not voted in". She praised Russian president Vladimir Putin for "not going to stand by while the globalists take over the world" and accused Ukrainians of being "actual Nazis". Logan's comments were praised and taken up by Russian government propaganda.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/fox-nation-host-lara-logan-links-president-zelenskys-entertainment-career|title=Fox Nation host Lara Logan links President Zelensky's entertainment career to the occult, and claims the entire Ukrainian military has Nazi links|access-date=March 23, 2022|date=March 15, 2022|publisher=Media Matters for America|archive-date=10 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610144133/https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/fox-nation-host-lara-logan-links-president-zelenskys-entertainment-career|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://sg.news.yahoo.com/russia-uses-lara-logans-rant-072552926.html|title=Russia Uses Lara Logan's Rant About Ukraine, Zelenskyy As Propaganda On Twitter|access-date=March 23, 2022|date=March 22, 2022|first=Lee|last=Moran|work=Yahoo News|archive-date=22 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322232803/https://sg.news.yahoo.com/russia-uses-lara-logans-rant-072552926.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/lara-logan-ukraine-nazi-comments-endorsed-kremlin/|title=Russian Officials Endorse Lara Logan's Comments Linking Ukrainian Soldiers to Nazis and Occultism|access-date=March 23, 2022|work=The Wrap|date=March 21, 2022|first=Natalie|last=Oganesyan|archive-date=22 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322232804/https://www.thewrap.com/lara-logan-ukraine-nazi-comments-endorsed-kremlin/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/logan-praised-russia-real-americas-voice-schwarzenegger-shunned-1690289|title=Logan Praised by Russia as 'Real America's Voice' as Schwarzenegger Shunned|access-date=March 23, 2022|date=March 21, 2022|first=Jake|last=Thomas|work=Newsweek|archive-date=12 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512025908/https://www.newsweek.com/logan-praised-russia-real-americas-voice-schwarzenegger-shunned-1690289|url-status=live}}

In March 2022, Logan claimed without evidence that Charles Darwin was employed by the Rothschild family to create his theory of evolution.{{Cite web |title=Fox Nation host Lara Logan claims that Darwinism is a plot from "the Rothschilds" |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/lara-logan/fox-nation-host-lara-logan-claims-darwinism-plot-rothschilds |date=March 28, 2022 |access-date=March 28, 2022 |website=Media Matters for America |language=en |archive-date=28 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328164426/https://www.mediamatters.org/lara-logan/fox-nation-host-lara-logan-claims-darwinism-plot-rothschilds |url-status=live }} She also promoted claims that the Rothschild family, a frequent target of antisemitic conspiracy theories, engineered the American Civil War and the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.{{Cite web |last=Hananoki |first=Eric |title=Fox Nation host Lara Logan shares conspiracy theories about "Putin's purge of the Rothschild money changers," Jewish people masterminding U.S. Civil War |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/lara-logan/fox-nation-host-lara-logan-shares-conspiracy-theories-about-putins-purge-rothschild |date=March 28, 2022 |access-date=March 28, 2022 |website=Media Matters for America |language=en |archive-date=28 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328190329/https://www.mediamatters.org/lara-logan/fox-nation-host-lara-logan-shares-conspiracy-theories-about-putins-purge-rothschild |url-status=live }}

In 1998, Logan married Jason Siemon, an American from Iowa playing professional basketball in the United Kingdom; the marriage ended in divorce in 2008. The same year, she married Joseph Burkett, a U.S. government defense contractor from Texas. It was the second marriage for both.{{cite news|url=http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_91e5c6fd-44dd-52e6-bb65-df68f3f3a8b5.html |title=Coverage of messy divorce ensnares CBS reporter with ties to Quad-Cities |newspaper=The Washington Post| via=Quad-City Times |date=8 July 2008 |access-date=25 November 2013 |archive-date=20 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820175006/http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_91e5c6fd-44dd-52e6-bb65-df68f3f3a8b5.html |url-status=live }} The couple lived in Washington, D.C., with their two children{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/t-magazine/lara-logan-remains-a-tenacious-journalist.html|first=Sally|last=Singer|title=Safe at Home|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 February 2012|access-date=4 December 2013|archive-date=3 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403015939/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/t-magazine/lara-logan-remains-a-tenacious-journalist.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|date=4 March 2010|url=http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/lara-logan-delivers-2/19577?red=dc|title=Lara Logan Delivers| first= Matt |last=Dornic |publisher=FishbowlDC/Adweek| access-date= 24 March 2015 | archive-date= 24 March 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150324214431/http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/lara-logan-delivers-2/19577}} and Burkett's daughter from his previous marriage. In 2015, they moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, Burkett's hometown.

• American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award, 2004{{cite web |url=https://allwomeninmedia.org/gracies/2004-gracies-winners/ |title=2004 Gracies Gala Winners |date=10 November 2016 |publisher=Alliance for Media in Women |access-date=5 December 2021 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407083705/https://allwomeninmedia.org/gracies/2004-gracies-winners/ |url-status=live }}
• The David Kaplan Award, Overseas Press Club, 2006{{cite web |url=https://opcofamerica.org/2006-opc-award-winners/ |title=2006 OPC Award Winners |date=May 1, 2007 |publisher=Overseas Press Club of America |access-date=6 December 2021 |archive-date=30 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130085547/https://opcofamerica.org/2006-opc-award-winners/ |url-status=live }}
• David Bloom Award, Radio and Television Correspondents' Association, 2007{{cite web |url=http://rtcacapitolhill.org/upcoming-2013-rtca-executive-committee-election/awards/ |title=Award Winners |publisher=Radio and Television Correspondents' Association |access-date=6 December 2021 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407083705/http://rtcacapitolhill.org/upcoming-2013-rtca-executive-committee-election/awards/ |url-status=live }}
• Daniel Pearl Award, 2011{{cite news|last=Foster|first=Stella|title=Stella Foster recognized for journalism career|url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/foster/8267370-452/stella-foster-recognized-for-journalism-career.html|access-date=8 November 2011|newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times|date=17 October 2011|archive-date=20 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120065104/http://www.suntimes.com/news/foster/8267370-452/stella-foster-recognized-for-journalism-career.html|url-status=live}}
• National Press Club's John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, 2011{{cite news|title=CBS News' Lara Logan, al Jazeera's Dorothy Parvaz win John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award for 2011|url=http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/22/3787665/cbs-news-lara-logan-al-jazeeras.html|access-date=25 July 2011|newspaper=The Sacramento Bee|date=22 July 2011|agency=PR Newswire|location=Washington|quote=The National Press Club has selected CBS News correspondent Lara Logan and al Jazeera's Dorothy Parvaz as winners of the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award for 2011.}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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