Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan (born 1974) is an American broadcast journalist.

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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, Washington. where he became a radio

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. While earning his degree in 1995 in

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(with minors in

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and

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

) at University of Puget Sound, he interned for several TV news stations in the state of Washington. In September 2008, Sreenivasan became a

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. He was hired full-time in 1995 by then- NBC 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 '' World News Now'', and concurrently co-hosted, with Jake Tapper, the behind-the-scenes

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''ABC News Shuffle''. In early 2009, he worked as a correspondent for

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' 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 '' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'', 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 WNET 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

Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who has served as the Prime Minister of India, prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Par ...

, the

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, on September 28, 2014, at

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, 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

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. He is also a correspondent for '' Amanpour & Company'', 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 male writers of Indian descent University of Puget Sound alumni Writers from Seattle Indian emigrants to the United States Journalists 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

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