Poppy Harlow

Poppy Harlow is an American journalist and a correspondent at CNN. Her full name is Katharine Julia Poppy Harlow. Before working as a correspondent at CNN, she worked as an anchor for CNNMoney.com, a business correspondent at CNN, CNN International and HLN, anchor of Forbes.com Video Network, reporter and a producer. She was the primary host at CNNMoney.com. Poppy has been an important fragment of CNN and has a big contribution on business coverage of CNNMoney.com. She is famous in the United States as a veteran journalist who is very serious about her job. Poppy has been raised outside the Twin Cities, Minnesota. She completed her schooling with honor from the Blake School and then graduated with great honor from the Columbia University in political science. Poppy is not married yet and currently living in the New York City.

Her journey as journalist started with an internship at CBS Marketwatch during her college days. She continued working at CBS and after her graduation she got elevated to the post of assistant producer for CBS Newspath. After gaining some experience from there, she joined as an anchor and reporter in NY1 News’ Local Edition and she used to cover Staten Island and New Jersey. Her reports included politics, local cultural events and the economy. She also covered fashion and business events like The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, annual meeting of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, Fortune’s Brainstorm conferences and many more. In a short time she became a famous personality on the channel well known fro the coverage of local events. And finally in 2008, she joined CNN. Her experience from CBS and NY1 helped her a lot in gaining the reputation at CNN.

Poppy has interviewed popular business personalities like Bill Gates, Starbucks CEO, small business owners, policymakers and the list is very long. She has been rewarded with numerous awards including The Gracie Award for Best online investigation on financial fraud and SABEW’s best in Business Award for online video. Harlow is not married yet. She is among the beautiful personalities serving at CNN. She has not been in any kind of relationship with any guy till date and has not found her Mr. Perfect. Harlow bothers more for her work then for her relationship status. She did not like to reveal her personal life in public. Her ambitious mind and the passionate attitude keep her focused towards her career. She has reached great heights in her work life and is currently enjoying her professional achievements.

Harlow managed to earn the name and fame that she has of today at the very young age. She is very much committed towards her work. Poppy had gone through a controversy in the case of the rapists and was criticized for that. She showed compassion to the Steubenville rapists. She took the things personally as a woman and outraged. But later an apology was made by CNN. She is really an exceptional host and especially when it comes to live reporting. She receives hot amount of salary and deserves it.

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