Lara Logan Biography, Husband, Children, Career, Height and Net Worth

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Lara Logan Biography

Lara Logan is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent. She was also a correspondent for CBS News between 2002 and 2018. She joined the Sinclair Broadcast Group in 2019.

Lara Logan Age

She was born in Durban, South Africa on 29 March 1971. She is 48 years old as of 2019.

Lara Logan Family

Lara Logan Husband | Children

She was married to Jason Siemon, a professional basketball player. The marriage ended in divorce. She married Joseph Burkett in 2008, a Texas defense contractor from the U.S. government, whom she encountered in Afghanistan years earlier.

She has two children, Joseph, and Lola Burkett. They live in Washington, D.C. Lola is from Burkett’s previous marriage.

Lara Logan Educational Background

Lara attended Durban Girls ‘ College high school. She graduated with a degree in commerce from Natal University in Durban in 1992. She graduated from Alliance Française in Paris with a doctorate in French language, culture, and history.

Lara Logan Career | TV Shows

During her research (1988–1989), Logan served as a media journalist for the Durban Sunday Tribune, then for the city’s Daily News (1990–1992). In 1992, as a junior editor, she entered Reuters Television in Africa. She stepped out into professional reporting after four years, gaining tasks with ITN and Fox / SKY, CBS News, ABC News (in London), NBC, and the European Broadcast Union as a journalist and editor/producer.

GMTV Breakfast Television (UK) recruited Logan as a correspondent in 2000; she also worked as a freelance correspondent with CBS News Radio. Days after the attacks of September 11, she asked a clerk to give her a visa to travel to Afghanistan at the Russian Embassy in London. She infiltrated the American-British-backed Northern Alliance in November 2001 while working for GMTV in Afghanistan and interviewed their leader, General Babajan, at the Bagram Air Base.

In 2002, CBS News provided her a full correspondent role. She spent much of the next four years reporting from the battlefield, often embedded with the U.S. Armed Forces, including war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq. But she also interviewed famous figures and explorers like the discoverer of the RMS Titanic’s wreck, Robert Ballard. She has been a frequent contributor to the CBS Evening News, The Early Show and Face the Nation for many of her reports for 60 Minutes II. Logan was promoted to “Chief External Affairs Correspondent” for CBS News in February 2006.

Lara Logan Height

She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches.

Lara Logan Net Worth

Lara Logan Awards

Radio & Television Association David Bloom Award, 2008 American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award, 2008, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2000 Association of International Broadcasters’ Best International News Story Award, 2007 Emmy Award, Overseas Press Club Award, and a Murrow Award, 2008 Murrow Award for “Marines on Patrol in Afghanistan” 2010[1] John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, 2011[2] John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award, 2011 Daniel Pearl Award, 2011