Poppy Harlow taking hiatus from CNN

Poppy Harlow is taking a hiatus from CNN to pursue a master’s degree, she announced on-air Tuesday.

Variety reported Harlow will be pursuing Yale Law School’s one-year Master of Studies in Law, which it noted is a program for students who do not wish to become lawyers but want to learn more about legal studies and apply the law to the work they do. 

“I’m here to stay for good as a journalist, but I wanted to learn more about the law,” Harlow told the outlet. “I really felt that over the last year and a half. This is a dream that has been delayed but it doesn’t have to disappear.”

Harlow’s father was an attorney, she said, and studying the law will be her way of feeling closer to him.

Harlow, who has been with the network for more than a decade, currently hosts “CNN Newsroom” weekdays from 9-11 a.m. 

Harlow will be not be completely gone from the network during her studies, saying viewers of the network “will see me when I don’t have class. You will see me filling in wherever they need me.” 

“It’s been a really rich part of our coverage,” she said of the network’s Supreme Court coverage, decisions from which usually are announced at 10 a.m. during its normal term. “I’m not looking to prove anything. I’m looking to dive a little bit deeper into something.”

She said she hopes the law course “can be additive to everything I do on a daily basis here, making a little bit of difference and that’s not a bad thing.”