Poppy Harlow Biography
Poppy Harlow is an award winning American Journalist who is renowned for her anchoring skills currently working at CNN. She anchors CNN This Morning and she is New York based. Harlow is a former anchor of CNN News Room weekdays and also a former business correspondent at CNN international and HLN.
Poppy Harlow Age
She was born on 2 May 1982 as Catherine Julia Harlow in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her birth sign is Taurus and she belongs to white ethnicity. She is 41 years old as of 2023.
Poppy Harlow Height
She is 5 feet 6 inches tall (1.68m)
Education
Poppy Harlow Studied at Blake School in Minneapolis where she graduated in 2001. She graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and later proceeded to Yale Law School to study law and graduated with a masters of studies in Law degree.
Family
Harlow was born to her parents Mary Louise Baird and her late father James Lee Harlow who died when she was 15. She gained her Nickname Poppy when she was a child. Minneapolis, Minnesota is where she was born and raised. She is believed to have a younger brother although she has not shared details about his siblings with public.
Poppy’s Husband and Children
She got married to Sinisa Babcic a businessman in 2012. As a result the couple are parents to Sienna born on April 2016 and Luca born on February 2018.
Salary and Net worth
Poppy Harlow receives an estimated annual salary of $2million and her net worth is estimated to be $8 million as of 2023.
Career
As a student, Poppy Harlow began her journalism career as an intern at CBS where she continued working as an assistant producer for Newspath after graduating. From there, she moved to NY1 News to become an anchor and reporter.
She landed a job at Forbes.com Video Network in September 2007 where she covered topics like fashion, entertainment and business.
In 2008 Poppy joined CNN and became the anchor of CNNMoney.com and the reporter for CNN, CNN International and HLN. In April 2012 she became a CNN Correspondent based in New York. On February 2017 she took over as co-anchor of CNN Newsroom alongside Jim Sciuto as replacement of Carlos Costello who had moved to HLN. On September 2022 she was named the anchor of CNN This Morning leaving her role as the co-anchor of CNN Newsroom
Controversies
She was highly criticized for sympathizing with rapists in 2013 while covering a story of a 16 years old girl who was raped by two high school football players and in her statement she said “incredibly difficult, even for an outsider like me, to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched as they believed their lives fell apart.”
Awards
- Gracie Award for best online investigative program or feature
- SABEW’s Best in Business award
- John Jay Award
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