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CBS News' Lara Logan will speak Oct. 12. She's the second of the school's Speaker Series.

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CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan will talk to the public about her work abroad at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Her lecture, free and open to the public, is part of the School of Journalism Speaker Series.

Logan has reported from war zones all over the world, making her mark on broadcast news with her coverage of Iraq both before and after U.S. troops moved into the country.

In addition to her duties on 60 Minutes, Logan regularly contributes to other CBS news shows, reporting from the frontlines of Afghanistan and Iraq, interviewing political and military leaders in the Mideast, and exposing the abuse of special needs Iraqi orphans, among many other stories.

In 2005, while reporting on a battle on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border for 60 Minutes II, Logan nearly became the news when a U.S. military vehicle in which she was riding hit a mine. The explosion seriously wounded two soldiers; she escaped with minor injuries.

Logan received an Emmy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and an RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Award for "Ramadi: On the Front Line," a 2006 report on American troops under fire in Ramadi, Iraq. Logan and the CBS team produced the piece while embedded with a U.S. military unit. She also has received five American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards.

• Read Logan’s official bio at CBS News.
• Watch a video of one of Logan’s pieces at CBS News.
• Hear Logan talk about the ambush and the CBS videographer who shot the footage on 60 Minutes Overtime.

(Lara Logan's appearance arranged through Gotham Artists, LLC.)

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