Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent. She is the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News and a correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes.
Logan was born in Durban, South Africa, and attended high school at Durban Girls' College. She graduated from the University of Natal in Durban in 1992 with a degree in commerce. She went on to earn a diploma in French language, culture and history at Alliance Française in Paris.
She married Jason Siemon, an Iowan playing professional basketball in the U.K., but the marriage ended in divorce. In 2008 she married Joseph Burkett, a U.S. government defense contractor from Texas, whom she had met years before in Afghanistan. They live in Washington, D.C., with their son Joseph (born December 2008) daughter Lola (born March 2010), and Burkett's daughter, Ashley, from a previous marriage.