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Lara Logan's Journey to the Fringes of Media
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Lara Logan's Journey to the Fringes of Media

'Atlantic' profiles the journalist who was once one of the most respected in her profession

(Newser) - She was once one of the biggest and most respected names in TV journalism, the subject of flattering stories herself, such as one christening her the "War Zone It Girl" by the New York Times in 2005. Today, Lara Logan is too extreme even for far-right Newsmax, after doing...

Logan Feared Torture Death as She's Stripped, Nearly Scalped

 Lara Logan: 
 I Was Stripped, 
 Nearly Scalped 
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Lara Logan: I Was Stripped, Nearly Scalped

More gruesome details from Lara Logan's sex assault by Egyptian mob

(Newser) - CBS correspondent Lara Logan was convinced she was dying as she was sexually molested by a crazed mob of Egyptian men, but was saved at the last minute by a woman wearing a burka. All she could see was "just her eyes," she said on 60 Minutes last...

Lara Logan on Egypt Assault: They Were 'Merciless'

CBS reporter discusses attack for first time in interview

(Newser) - CBS reporter Lara Logan is determined that the sexual assault she endured in Egypt's Tahrir Square will not "define" her, she tells the New York Times . She will talk more about the attack on Sunday's 60 Minutes, then stop giving interviews about it. The details are rough:...

Lara Logan Beaten With Flagpoles, Fists

Recovering reporter was stripped in mob of 200 men

(Newser) - Harsh new details of Lara Logan's attack in Cairo: The CBS reporter was stripped and battered with fists and makeshift flagpoles, reports the Times of London, via the Daily Mail . She was pinched so hard by her attackers that the red marks that covered her body were initially thought to...

Logan Has 'Broken That Code of Silence'

Female journalists have suffered abuse for years, writes Kim Barker

(Newser) - Journalist Kim Barker was covering a jubilant demonstration in Pakistan in 2007, with thousands cheering for the country's chief justice, when the crowd turned on her, groping her relentlessly. She only escaped because the chief justice saw and let her take shelter in his car. "I knew other female...

Lara Logan Tweets: Media Must Learn to Forgive Nir Rosen and Others for One-Time Mistakes, Writes Michelle Goldberg
Nir Rosen Should Be Ashamed—but Not Ruined 
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Nir Rosen Should Be Ashamed—but Not Ruined

Lara Logan tweets were disgusting, but media must learn to forgive

(Newser) - Nir Rosen’s thoughtless tweets about Lara Logan were “grotesque”—but they shouldn’t “eclipse an often-heroic career” of “intrepid” war reporting, writes Michelle Goldberg in the Daily Beast . Indeed, today’s media “has an awful way of reducing us all to the worst thing...

Nir Rosen Explains His 'Terrible' Lara Logan Tweets

'There is no excuse for what I wrote'

(Newser) - Independent journalist Nir Rosen writes a mea culpa in Salon to again apologize for his Lara Logan tweets . He reiterates that he didn't know she'd been sexually assaulted, or that the attack was so severe, but says "there is no excuse for what I wrote" and that he hopes...

Cooper Hammers Journo Over Lara Logan Tweets

Nir Rosen: 'I was a jerk'

(Newser) - Nir Rosen, the journalist who tweeted more than one tasteless line about Lara Logan's assault faced Anderson Cooper last night, attempting to explain what he’d been thinking—which was basically that he wasn't thinking at all. "I don’t have an explanation. I was a jerk," Rosen...

Logan Attack Highlights Women's Plight

Will Egypt revolution help stem tide of assaults, harassment?

(Newser) - For a moment the glorious dream of liberation in Egypt appeared to hold promise for everyone. But the vicious sexual assault on CBS News' Lara Logan underscored the plight of women in Egypt, who are often subjected to catcalls, groping and assaults in their own country, reports MSNBC . The same...

Here's How Not to Talk About Lara Logan

Her looks have nothing to do with sexual assault story: Mary Elizabeth Williams

(Newser) - News of Lara Logan's sexual assault in Egypt just came to light yesterday, and already the "blame the victim" mentality is on full display. One "stunningly offensive blog post" took just minutes to "hinge the story on the blond reporter's looks," writes Mary Elizabeth Williams on...

Lara Logan Is Released From the Hospital and Is Resting at Home After Her Assault in Egypt
 Lara Logan Out of Hospital 

Lara Logan Out of Hospital

CBS reporter resting at home with family after Egypt assault

(Newser) - One bit of good news in the Lara Logan story: She's out of the hospital and resting at home in Washington, DC, with her husband and two children, reports ABC News . The 39-year-old CBS journalist was earlier said to be in "remarkably good spirits" despite her sexual assault and...

Journalist Nir Rosen Writes Tasteless Tweet About Lara Logan
Journo: Lara Logan Assault
Would Have Been Funny If...
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Journo: Lara Logan Assault Would Have Been Funny If...

...it happened to Anderson Cooper, Nir Rosen tweets

(Newser) - A journalist who's written on foreign policy for the New Yorker, Time, and the New York Times is under fire after making light of Lara Logan's assault in Egypt, and has now resigned his position as an NYU fellow, the National Review notes. Nir Rosen, who also once contributed footage...

Why Lara Logan Went Back to Egypt

CBS correspondent returned after arrest by military; 'it is in my blood'

(Newser) - CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo last Friday, is recovering and could leave the hospital to be reunited with her two young children as soon as today, sources tell the Daily Beast. Logan, who had been arrested and interrogated by the...

CBS' Lara Logan Suffered Sexual Assault in Egypt

Journalist was separated from her crew before being rescued

(Newser) - CBS journalist Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted while covering the aftermath of Hosni Mubarak's resignation speech, the network says. She is back in the US and recuperating in a hospital. Logan and her crew were covering the jubilation when they were "surrounded by a dangerous element amidst...

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