Hari Sreenivasan
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Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan[1] (born 1974) is an American broadcast journalist.
Biography
Sreenivasan was born in Mumbai, India, into a Tamil family, 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]
See also
References
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- ↑ "Hari Sreenivasan -- Correspondent" at CBS News
- ↑ "Press Release", November 23, 2009, at PBS.org
- ↑ a b "Introducing...", December 3, 2009, at PBS.org
- ↑ a b c "What Is the Rundown?", December 3, 2009, at PBS.org
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External links
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- Three Questions for Hari Sreenivasan from SAJAforum.org
- Profile from ABC Medianet
- Profile from the South Asian Journalists Association
- Article on rediff.com based on Sreenivasan's sulekha.com blog entry
- Interview on JournalismJobs.com, August 2005
- SciTech Now website
- Hari Sreenivasan Joins PBS NewsHour November 23, 2009.
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