What Is Poppy Harlow's Net Worth?
Poppy Harlow is an American journalist who has a net worth of $8 million. Poppy Harlow is best known for hosting programs like "CNN This Morning." She was an intern at CBS and then worked for CBS MarketWatch before becoming an anchor and reporter for NY1 News. Harlow took a job with the Forbes.com Video Network in 2007. In 2012, she was named a New York-based CNN correspondent after joining the network in 2008 as an anchor for CNNMoney.com and a reporter for CNN, HLN, and CNN International.
Early Life
Poppy Harlow was born Katharine Julia Harlow on May 2, 1982, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the daughter of James Lee Harlow and Mary Louise Baird. She earned the nickname "Poppy" as a child, and it stuck throughout her life. Poppy's father, who worked as an attorney, died when she was 15 years old. She attended The Blake School, a private college preparatory school in Minneapolis, graduating in 2001. She then enrolled at Columbia University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies.
Career
Harlow interned at CBS while in college. Upon graduating from college, she continued working for CBS MarketWatch and then as an assistant producer for CBS Newspath. As she continued developing a positive reputation for herself, Poppy landed a job as an anchor and reporter for NY1 News Local Edition. While working there, she covered the Staten Island and New Jersey areas and focused on reporting on issues of local politics, the economy, and cultural events.
In September 2007, Harlow was hired by the Forbes.com Video Network to cover additional topics in fashion, entertainment, and business. The following year, she joined CNN and served as the anchor for CNNMoney.com. Poppy also reported for CNN, CNN International, and HLN. She was promoted to a New York CNN correspondent in April 2012. She won the Gracie Award for best online investigative program or feature and SABEW's Best in Business award.
In 2013, while reporting on the conviction of two Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players for the rape of a 16-year-old girl, Harlow ran into controversy when she seemed to express sympathy for the football players on air. A petition requesting that CNN apologize for this behavior was signed by over 250,000 people within two days of Harlow's report.
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In December 2015, Harlow passed out briefly while live on the air, sitting at the anchor desk. She was pregnant at the time. Soon after, Poppy reappeared on air and said she was fine and had merely gotten hot. She was examined at a hospital and reported that both she and her unborn daughter were well.
Beginning in February 2017, Harlow and Jim Sciutto took over as the new co-anchors of "CNN Newsroom" every morning from 9 to 11 A.M. as former anchor Carol Costello had moved to HLN. In September 2022, it was announced that Poppy would co-anchor the new CNN revamped morning show with Don Lemon and Kaitlan Collins later in the year. The show was announced to be called "CNN This Morning" in December of 2022.
Personal Life
Harlow is married to Sinisa Babcic. The couple has two children together – a daughter born in April 2016 and a son born in February 2018. Poppy returned to school later in life, enrolling in a Master of Studies of Law program at Yale Law School, which she completed in 2022. That same year, she was awarded a John Jay Award from her alma mater, Columbia College.
