Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan, born in 1974, is an American

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Biography

Sreenivasan was born in

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, India, around 1974."Interview with Hari Sreenivasan, correspondent, ABC News Now -- August 2005"
at JournalismJobs.com After immigrating to the United States at age seven, he attended Nathan Hale High School in

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. where he became a radio

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. While earning his degree in 1995 in mass communication (with minors in

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and philosophy) at University of Puget Sound, he interned for several TV news stations in the state of Washington. In September 2008, Sreenivasan became a U.S. citizen. He was hired full-time in 1995 by then-

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affiliate

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-TV in

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, and later moved to

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, to work for CNET, covering the

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sector. In 2004, Sreenivasan joined

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as a correspondent, he became co-anchor, with Taina Hernandez, of ''

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'', and concurrently co-hosted, with

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, the behind-the-scenes

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''ABC News Shuffle''. In early 2009, he worked as a correspondent for CBS News' Dallas bureau."Hari Sreenivasan -- Correspondent"
at CBS News Late in 2009,
December 3, 2009, at PBS.org
at PBS.org he became an "online/on-air correspondent" for ''

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'', delivering the television broadcast's news-summary and end-of-the-hour recap and leading the show's blog. In 2013, Sreenivasan became the anchor for the '' PBS NewsHour Weekend'' made at the Tisch

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Studios at

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. He regularly replaced the late correspondent Gwen Ifill and stands in for

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when she is away or on assignment. Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri and Sreenivasan hosted a talk given by

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, the Prime Minister of India, on September 28, 2014, at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan, in front of an audience of over 18,000. This was Modi's first visit to the United States since he had been denied a visa in 2005.

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 ''Amanpour & Company'' is a late-night global-affairs interview television program hosted by Christiane Amanpour. The hour-long show premiered on PBS on September 10, 2018, as an expanded version of the CNN International show ''Amanpour'', augm ...

'', based out of the WNET studios in Manhattan.

References

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 entryInterview
on JournalismJobs.com, August 2005
''SciTech Now'' website
November 23, 2009. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sreenivasan, Hari American television journalists American television reporters and correspondents ABC News people PBS people American male journalists American writers of Indian descent University of Puget Sound alumni Writers from Seattle Indian emigrants to the United States People from Mumbai American people of Indian Tamil descent American Hindus 1974 births Living people 21st-century American journalists

Biography

Other PBS projects

See also

References

External links