CBS correspondent Lara Logan and her producer have been placed on leave after airing their botched "60 Minutes" report on Benghazi, CNN reported.
The network announced their decision on Tuesday to punish Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, after the October 27 special was shown.
"The '60 Minutes' journalistic review is concluded, and we are implementing ongoing changes based on its results,"a CBS spokeswoman said after conducting an internal review.
It is unknown how long Logan and McClellan will be on leave for and/or whether it will be paid. In addition, neither have spoken publicly about the matter aside from the November 10 apology on "60 Minutes," which was not entirely accepted by viewers and media figures.
Though Logan was also supposed to host an event for the Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday, CBS announced that Scott Pelley, anchor of "CBS Evening News," would take her place.
Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News, considers the mistake to be mostly his fault -- not Logan or McClellan's.
"I pride myself in catching almost everything, but this deception got through and it shouldn't have," Fager said.
Their original report included an interview with security contracter Dylan Davies, who lied about being in Benghazi at the time of the attack. Logan and her team eventually learned that he had previously said he was never there, though he claimed that was a lie to "protect" himself.
Media Matters, a liberal watchdog group that was one of the early critics of the Benghazi report, commended CBS for punishing Logan and her producer.
"From the start of this controversy, Media Matters has demanded that CBS review the flawed '60 Minutes' report and take appropriate action. Today, the network has done that," said the group's chairman, David Brock, in a statement. "We hope this serves as a lesson learned to CBS about the danger of misinformation."
