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Former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan has found a new home with Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative media giant with local stations around the country. Logan has a 90-day assignment as a special correspondent focusing on the US-Mexico border, and will produce two segments a week for Sinclair’s 191 television…

Fox News Channel said this afternoon that primetime star/Donald Trump BFF Sean Hannity will interview former CBS News star Lara Logan on Wednesday night’s show. The booking comes as Logan made headlines this week when she gave an interview to a conservative podcast in which she compared Breitbart and Fox News to…

Lara Logan, who took a leave of absence from CBS News after her botched Benghazi report on 60 Minutes in 2013, is back in the spotlight this week. She gave an interview to a conservative podcast in which she compared Breitbart and Fox News to put-upon women who have but “this tiny little spot” at which to pray in…

A group of academics and journalists is accusing 60 Minutes of turning black Africans into background extras in its recent segments from the continent. “60 Minutes has managed, quite extraordinarily, to render people of black African ancestry voiceless and all but invisible” in a series of recent segments, says a…

NBC News announced this morning it has partnered exclusively with Facebook for the launch a a cross-platform initiative "Spread the Story #Fight Ebola". Over the next 24 hours NBC News will post a total of 24 stories of children and families impacted by Ebola, “to capture the untold personal tragedy brought by each…

CBS News slipped Lara Logan back on the air, under the wing of TV journalism senior statesman Bill Schieffer. Logan appeared on Schieffer's Sunday Beltway show Face the Nation to do an explainer on the escalating situation in Iraq. Logan's been absent from CBS News since delivering her on-camera mea culpa for the…

Lara Logan is back at work at CBS newsmag 60 Minutes after being ordered to take a leave of absence for her role in a story about the raid on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. A CBS News spokesperson confirmed the news to Deadline; the rep declined to provide more information, such as when Logan will be seen on…

Lara Logan should not be let go by CBS News over her botched Benghazi report on 60 Minutes, former CBS newsman Dan Rather said in response to a question by CNN’s Piers Morgan. She should be judged by her body of work, said the former network news anchor who got pushed out of the network over a mangled CBS News report…

Lara Logan, the reporter behind 60 Minutes‘ now-discredited story on the Benghazi attacks, has agreed to take a leave of absence from CBS News. Also taking a leave is producer Max McClellan. The move comes after an internal investigation was released today and an announcement to staffers by CBS News chairman and 60 Min…

You know who loves the MSNBC Puts Alec Baldwin’s New Show On Two-Week Suspension After Alleged Homophobic Rant story? CBS News, which is happy for any bright shiny light that distracts media finger-waggers from its botched 60 Minutes Benghazi report. Unfortunately, the two media-centric Sunday shows, on cable news…

UPDATED, SUNDAY 6:05 PM: 60 Minutes ended its report tonight with CBS News's most detailed account to date of its error in its October 27th broadcast about the attack on the American special mission compound in Benghazi. As she had on CBS This Morning on Friday, Lara Logan delivered the apology. It was Logan who had…

UPDATE, 6:20 AM: “We were wrong,” 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan said on CBS This Morning about the newsmagazine’s report on the Benghazi attack in 2012 that was based on an interview with Dylan Davies, who had worked for the State Department in Libya. “We apologize to our viewers,” she added. The apology comes…