This post was written by Hatchet reporter Aurora Echavarria.

CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan said the media is still an “old boys club” at the latest edition of the Kalb Report Monday night.

“I’ve been told repeatedly that I’d never make it,” Logan, also a correspondent on CBS’s 60 Minutes, said.

Throughout the show’s taping at the National Press Club, Logan discussed the challenges of working as a journalist embedded with troops in war zones. Her direct, and at times poignant, responses to host Marvin Kalb’s questions created an almost one-sided interview as Logan dominated the conversation, dispelling myths about her personal life, work and ambitions.

Logan, who was sexually assaulted in a mob at Tahrir Square in Cairo as President Hosni Mubarak’s regime was toppling last February, said the struggles she faced as a female journalist did not stop her from reporting – but they did create a new sense of fear.

“I’m afraid of things I wasn’t afraid of before,” Logan said. It was Logan second time speaking publicly about the incident.

Logan added that while she is more aware of the risks she takes while reporting, she would not hesitate to go back into a war zone, as the work war correspondents do is vital to the public record.

“I would give up a toilet and a hot meal for something that is real,” Logan said, referring to reporting on the ground, as opposed to diplomatic and political journalism.

She added that if there are no witnesses of an incident, it virtually never happened.

Growing up in South Africa under apartheid motivated her to report on international conflicts, she said.

“It was the values instilled in me as a young child that taught me to stand up for what was wrong,” Logan said.