Downtown Rotary Welcomes Award-winning Journalist Lara Logan

500 Texas Avenue,Houston TX 77002

29 April, 2021

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Downtown Rotary Club of Houston's monthly luncheon is Thursday, April 29, 2021, with guest speaker Lara Logan. Join us for our monthly Downtown Rotary Club of Houston luncheon Thursday, April 29, 2021, as we hear from our guest speaker, award-winning broadcast journalist Lara Logan. Lara’s bold reporting from war zones for more than two decades has earned her a prominent spot among the world’s best foreign correspondents. She is currently a Fox News Contributor and Host of the Docuseries ‘Lara Logan Has No Agenda’ on Fox Nation. Downtown Rotary Club of Houston members are entitled to one (1) free ticket per paid member. Visitors and guests must purchase a ticket at $50. If you are ordering more than one (1) ticket, please enter each attendee's name. All credit cards and PayPal accepted. Valet parking included. ABOUT LARA LOGAN Lara Logan’s bold reporting from war zones for more than two decades has earned her a prominent spot among the world’s best foreign correspondents. Driven by an insatiable desire to constantly improve and impact the world around us. Logan began her journalism career when she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl in South Africa. As a teenager compelled to expose the atrocities of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, Logan discovered her passion for seeking truth and justice in an increasingly connected globe. Since her days as a young print reporter in South Africa, she has gone on to confront the harsh and dangerous realities of war, conflict and global change. The horror and injustice she witnessed has instilled in her a deep humility and a profound appreciation for life — and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Logan was named CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent in February 2006 and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent in 2008, all while contributing to 60 Minutes beginning in 2005, and 60 Minutes II from 2001. She reported regularly for the CBS Evening News and appeared on The Early Show and Face the Nation in addition to 60 Minutes. In February 2011, Logan was almost killed in Tahrir Square in Egypt during the revolution there. She was sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob of some 300 men while reporting a story for 60 Minutes on the Egyptian Revolution. She broke her silence about the brutal attack on 60 Minutes to draw attention to the plight of men and women, as well as female journalists covering war zones. Few television reporters have spent as much time in Afghanistan as Logan has since the attacks of 9/11. In 2010, her 60 Minutes report from the Afghan battlefield, “A Relentless Enemy” earned her electronic journalism’s highest award, a DuPont – Columbia University Silver Baton. A powerful 2006 report for the CBS Evening News about U.S. Marines under fire in the most dangerous part of Iraq, won an Emmy, an Edward R. Murrow Award and an Overseas Press Club award. “Ramadi: On the Front Line,” was a two-segment series, shot in part by Logan herself. Lara is a Fox News Contributor and Host of the Docuseries ‘Lara Logan Has No Agenda’ on Fox Nation. Logan has received multiple Emmy Awards, several Murrow awards, an Overseas Press Club Award, the Daniel Pearl Award, Glamour Woman of the Year and five American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards, to name a few. In 2008 for Outstanding Feature-Hard News for the Iraqi orphans story; in 2004 for Individual Achievement for Best Reporter/Correspondent; in 2003 for Best News Story for her CBS Evening News report on the attempted assassination of Afghan President Hamid Karzai; in 2002 for Best News Story for her CBS News Radio coverage of the war in Afghanistan; and in 2000 for Best News Story for her CBS News Radio coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She received the David Bloom Award in 2008 from the Radio & Television Correspondents Association for excellence in enterprise reporting and the 2007 Association of International Broadcasters’ Best International News Story Award for her report on the Taliban. Logan was born in Durban and graduated from the city’s University of Natal in 1992 with a degree in commerce. She also holds a diploma in French language, culture and history from the Universite de L’Alliance Francaise in Paris. Lara is married to Joseph Burkett, a U.S. government defense contractor from Texas, whom she had met years before in Afghanistan. They live in Washington, D.C. and make their permanent home in Texas with their three children.