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{{about|the American TV journalist|the Indian surgeon|Hariharan Srinivasan}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Hari Sreenivasan
| birth_name = Hariharan Sreenivasan
| image = Hari Sreenivasan (47228134261).jpg
| caption = Sreenivasan during an interview (2019).
| birth_date = {{b-da|1974}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[India]]
| nationality = American
| occupation = Television journalist
| employer = {{unbulleted list|[[WNCN-TV]] (1995-?)|[[CNET]]|[[ABC News]] (2004-?)|[[CBS News]] (2009-?)|[[PBS NewsHour|PBS NewsHour Weekend]] (2013-present) }}
| spouse =
| children =
| alma_mater = [[University of Puget Sound]] (BA)
| website =
}}

'''Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan''',<ref name=ompower>{{cite web |url=http://ompower.com/sreeni/ |title=In memory of my father, by Hari Sreenivasan |author= |website=ompower.com }}</ref> born in 1974, is an American [[List of journalists in New York City|broadcast journalist]].

==Biography==
Sreenivasan was born in [[Mumbai]], India, around 1974.<ref name=JournJobs>[http://www.journalismjobs.com/hari.cfm "Interview with Hari Sreenivasan, correspondent, ABC News Now -- August 2005"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060425093717/http://www.journalismjobs.com/hari.cfm |date=2006-04-25 }} at JournalismJobs.com</ref> After immigrating to the United States at age seven,<ref name="citizen essay">{{cite web|last=Sreenivasan|first=Hari|title=Going All In: The Story Of Becoming A U.S. Citizen|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500803_162-4458037-500803.html|work=Couric & Co.|publisher=CBS News|access-date=August 24, 2011|date=September 18, 2008}}</ref> he attended [[Nathan Hale High School (Washington)|Nathan Hale High School]] in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Owen|first=Rob|title=Hari Sreenivasan: From Nathan Hale High to 'PBS NewsHour'|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/television/2019582934_hari06.html|newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]]|access-date=6 November 2012}}</ref> 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]],<ref>[http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/02/three_questions_1.html "Three Questions: Hari Sreenivasan moves to CBS News - and Dallas"], February 15, 2007, at South Asian Journalists Association site</ref> he interned for several TV news stations in the state of Washington. In September 2008, Sreenivasan became a [[U.S. citizen]].<ref name="citizen essay"/>

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 [[news bureau|bureau]].<ref name=CBS>[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/15/utility/main2481365.shtml "Hari Sreenivasan -- Correspondent"] at CBS News</ref>

Late in 2009,<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/press_releases/2009/1123_sreenivasan.html "Press Release"], November 23, 2009, at PBS.org</ref><ref name=Intro>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2009/12/introducing-the-rundown.html "Introducing..."], December 3, 2009, at PBS.org</ref><ref name=Rundown>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2009/12/what-is-the-rundown.html "What Is the Rundown?", December 3, 2009], at PBS.org</ref> he became an "online/on-air correspondent"<ref name=Rundown/> for ''[[PBS NewsHour|The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer]]'', delivering the television broadcast's news-summary and end-of-the-hour recap<ref name=Intro/> and leading the show's blog.<ref name=Rundown/> In 2013, Sreenivasan became the anchor for the ''[[PBS NewsHour|PBS NewsHour Weekend]]'' made at the Tisch [[WNET]] Studios at [[Lincoln Center]] in [[Manhattan]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Elizabeth |last=Jensen |title='PBS NewsHour' Begins Its Overhaul |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/business/media/pbs-newshour-begins-its-overhaul.html?_r=0 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 8, 2013 |access-date=August 23, 2014}}</ref> 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]],<ref name=nytmodi>{{cite web
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/world/asia/narendra-modi-madison-square-garden-united-states-indian-diaspora.html
|title=Indian Leader Narendra Modi, Once Unwelcome in U.S., Gets Rock Star Reception
|last=Sinha
|first=Shreeya
|date=September 27, 2014
|work= [[The New York Times]]
}}</ref> in front of an audience of over 18,000.<ref name=csmmodi>{{cite web
|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0928/India-s-Modi-takes-Madison-Square-Garden-video
|title=India's Modi takes Madison Square Garden (+video)
|last=Pennington
|first=Mathew
|date=September 28, 2014
|newspaper= [[Christian Science Monitor]]
}}</ref> This was Modi's first visit to the United States since [[Foreign policy of Narendra Modi#United States|he had been
denied a visa in 2005]].<ref name=wpmodi>{{cite web
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-modi-begins-rock-star-like-us-tour/2014/09/26/eeabe78b-9327-4643-a131-33ab5c59174a_story.html
|title=India's Modi begins rock star-like U.S. tour
|last=Gowen
|first=Annie
|date=September 26, 2014
|work= [[Washington Post]]
}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="Amanpour takes the old">{{cite news |last1=Koblin |first1=John |title=Christiane Amanpour Takes the Old 'Charlie Rose' Slot on PBS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/business/media/christiane-amanpour-pbs-charlie-rose.html |access-date=2020-11-01 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 9, 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Indians in the New York City metropolitan region]]
* [[New Yorkers in journalism]]
* [[PBS NewsHour]]

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* {{Commonscat-inline|Hari Sreenivasan}}
* {{facebook}}
* {{twitter}}
*[http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/02/three_questions_1.html Three Questions for Hari Sreenivasan from SAJAforum.org]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061004224813/http://www.abcmedianet.com/shows05/news/correspondents/sreenivasan.shtml Profile] from [[ABC Medianet]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060928072126/http://www.saja.org/harisreenivasan.html Profile] from the [[South Asian Journalists Association]]
*[http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/sep/17spec.htm Article on rediff.com based on Sreenivasan's sulekha.com blog entry]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060425093717/http://www.journalismjobs.com/hari.cfm Interview] on JournalismJobs.com, August 2005
*[http://scitechnow.org ''SciTech Now'' website]
*[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/aboutus/press_releases/2009/1123_sreenivasan.html Hari Sreenivasan Joins PBS NewsHour] November 23, 2009.
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