.jpg)
American
Television journalist
Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan,[1] born in 1974, is an American broadcast journalist.
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]
See also
References
- ↑ In memory of my father, by Hari Sreenivasan. ompower.com.
- ↑ "Interview with Hari Sreenivasan, correspondent, ABC News Now -- August 2005" Template:Webarchive at JournalismJobs.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Going All In: The Story Of Becoming A U.S. Citizen, Sreenivasan, Hari. CBS News(September 18, 2008). Retrieved August 24, 2011.
- ↑ Hari Sreenivasan: From Nathan Hale High to 'PBS NewsHour', Owen, Rob. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
- ↑ "Three Questions: Hari Sreenivasan moves to CBS News - and Dallas", February 15, 2007, at South Asian Journalists Association site
- ↑ "Hari Sreenivasan -- Correspondent" at CBS News
- ↑ "Press Release", November 23, 2009, at PBS.org
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Introducing...", December 3, 2009, at PBS.org
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "What Is the Rundown?", December 3, 2009, at PBS.org
- ↑ 'PBS NewsHour' Begins Its Overhaul, Jensen, Elizabeth(September 8, 2013). Retrieved August 23, 2014.
- ↑ Indian Leader Narendra Modi, Once Unwelcome in U.S., Gets Rock Star Reception, Sinha, Shreeya(September 27, 2014).
- ↑ India's Modi takes Madison Square Garden (+video), Pennington, Mathew(September 28, 2014).
- ↑ India's Modi begins rock star-like U.S. tour, Gowen, Annie(September 26, 2014).
- ↑ Christiane Amanpour Takes the Old 'Charlie Rose' Slot on PBS. The New York Times(September 9, 2018). Retrieved 2020-11-01.
External links
- Template:Commonscat-inline
- Template:Facebook
- Template:Twitter
- 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.