Hari Sreenivasan

Who is Hari Sreenivasan?

Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan is an Indian-born journalist who has worked primarily for American broadcast media.

Sreenivasan was born in Mumbai, India 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 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 2009, he worked as a correspondent for CBS News's 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 PBS NewsHour Weekend.