The former “60 Minutes” correspondent will have 90-day assignment with the giant TV-station owner.
By Paul Farhi Paul Farhi Media reporter Email Bio Follow April 10 at 1:37 AM Lara Logan, the former CBS News foreign correspondent, will join Sinclair Broadcast Group, the nation’s largest owner of TV stations, as a temporary special correspondent covering the U.S.-Mexico border, the company said Tuesday night.
Sinclair said in a statement that Logan will produce two news segments per week that it will distribute to its stations during a 90-day assignment. Neither side has made any commitments beyond the three-month period. She has won multiple awards, including Emmys and the duPont-Columbia award, for her work on the “CBS Evening News” and “60 Minutes.”
Logan declined to confirm that she was joining Sinclair when asked about it repeatedly over the weekend. “I am a journalist and this is what I will always do, working the same way all real journalists do,” she said in response to questions about her intentions.
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