News anchor Poppy Harlow announces departure from CNN

Anchor Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN

ATLANTA -- Anchor Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN, according to the network.

Harlow, who joined CNN successful 2008 and astir precocious co-hosted “CNN This Morning,” announced her parting from the cablegram quality elephantine successful an email to colleagues.

She called her clip astatine CNN “a gift.”

“I person been inspired by you and learned truthful overmuch from you – who are (and volition remain) beloved friends," Harlow wrote. “This spot has shaped maine arsenic a leader, taught maine resilience, shown maine the worth of position and however to marque hard decisions."

At CNN, Harlow reported connected the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and the 2015 Paris panic attacks, among different stories.

“I got to acquisition what makes this state great,” Harlow wrote successful her email. “I sat with radical successful their champion moments and successful their hardest. They taught maine astir the quality information and what binds us.”

Earlier this year, CNN announced changes to the clip slot for “CNN This Morning” and moved it to Washington.

CNN Chief Executive Mark Thompson lauded Harlow's clip astatine the network.

“Poppy is simply a unsocial endowment who combines formidable reporting and interviewing prowess with a quality interaction that audiences person ever responded to," Thompson said.

Harlow antecedently worked arsenic an anchor for the Forbes Video Network and was an anchor and newsman for NY1 News, according to her bio connected CNN's website.

She earned a bachelor's grade successful governmental subject from Columbia University and a master's grade successful Studies of Law from Yale Law School.