Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN.
The veteran anchor introduced her departure in an e-mail to colleagues Friday.
“Mark, Amy and the CNN administration group have been fantastic and have given me the area to make this resolution. I’m very grateful to them,” Harlow wrote. “CNN gave me the chance to journey throughout this nation and all over the world — typically on the worst of occasions, however when humanity additionally reveals one of the best of itself.”
“There’s been loads written about what’s flawed with journalism, and the challenges our trade faces. And it does. However there’s additionally a lot proper with it,” Harlow continued. “On the coronary heart of every thing we do is the pursuit of fact – it’s the core of CNN. I stay CNN’s greatest fan and I’ll be watching and cheering you on day-after-day.”
The anchor was most lately the co-host CNN This Morning, the cable information channel’s morning present. This system, which Harlow most lately hosted alongside Phil Mattingly, was successfully canceled earlier this 12 months, with manufacturing shifting to Atlanta.
Mattingly subsequently moved to a brand new position as chief home correspondent and a fill-in anchor.
CNN CEO Mark Thompson and Amy Entelis additionally launched statements of their very own praising Harlow.
“Poppy is a singular expertise who combines formidable reporting and interviewing prowess with a human contact that audiences have all the time responded to,” Thompson mentioned. “She’s been an exquisite colleague at CNN, and we all know she may have a lot success in her future endeavors.”
“Poppy leaves CNN after greater than 16 memorable years, 1000’s of hours within the anchor chair and a whole lot of experiences from the sphere,” Entelis added. “She made a mark on quite a few main tales together with monetary crises, the Paris terror assaults and the Boston bombing, however most notably enlightening interviews with the world’s high enterprise leaders, who trusted her as a result of she was robust, truthful, and well-prepared. Poppy is a superb journalist who units the usual for reporting with compassion and humanity, and we are going to miss her.”