Hari Sreenivasan
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Sreenivasan at work in 2012.
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| Born |
Hariharan Sreenivasan 1974 (age 43) Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Puget Sound (B.A.) |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
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Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan (born 1974) is an Indian-born American broadcast journalist.
Sreenivasan was born in Mumbai, India, in a Tamil Brahmin family, around 1974. After immigrating to the United States at age seven, he attended Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington, 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, he interned for several TV news stations in Washington state. In September 2008, Sreenivasan became an American citizen.
He was hired full-time in 1995 by 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.
Late in 2009, 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 Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Also regularly, he replaced the late Gwen Ifill and stands in for Judy Woodruff when she is away or on assignment. Even in one week anchored with Gwen.
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