Hari Sreenivasan

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Sreenivasan during an interview (2019).
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Hariharan Sreenivasan

1974 (age 4950)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Puget Sound (BA)
OccupationTelevision journalist
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Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan [1] (born 1974) is an American broadcast journalist.

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Biography

Sreenivasan was born in Mumbai, India, around 1974. [2] After immigrating to the United States at age seven, [3] he attended Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington. [4] where he became a radio disc jockey. While earning his degree in 1995 in mass communication (with minors in politics and philosophy) at University of Puget Sound, [5] he interned for several TV news stations in the state of Washington. In September 2008, Sreenivasan became a U.S. citizen. [3]

He was hired full-time in 1995 by then-NBC affiliate WNCN-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, and later moved to San Francisco, California, to work for CNET, covering the high tech sector. In 2004, Sreenivasan joined ABC News in New York City as a correspondent, he became co-anchor, with Taina Hernandez, of World News Now , and concurrently co-hosted, with Jake Tapper, the behind-the-scenes podcast ABC News Shuffle. In early 2009, he worked as a correspondent for CBS News' Dallas bureau. [6]

Late in 2009, [7] [8] [9] he became an "online/on-air correspondent" [9] for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer , delivering the television broadcast's news-summary and end-of-the-hour recap [8] and leading the show's blog. [9] In 2013, Sreenivasan became the anchor for the PBS NewsHour Weekend made at the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. [10] He regularly replaced the late correspondent Gwen Ifill and stands in for Judy Woodruff when she is away or on assignment.

Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri and Sreenivasan hosted a talk given by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, on September 28, 2014, at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan, [11] in front of an audience of over 18,000. [12] This was Modi's first visit to the United States since he had been denied a visa in 2005. [13]

Other PBS projects

Sreenivasan also anchors SciTech Now , a science program produced by WLIW 21, a WNET sister station and PBS affiliate on Long Island. He is also a correspondent for Amanpour & Company , based out of the WNET studios in Manhattan. [14]

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References

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