Biography of Hari Sreenivasan

SYNOPSIS

Hari Shreenivasan is an American broadcast journalist. He is an Indian-born journalist who currently works as an anchor, senior correspondent and director of digital partnerships for PBS NewsHour Weekend. He was born in 1974 and is of Tamil ethnicity.

PERSONAL LIFE

Hari was born in Mumbai, India. He was born into a Tamil Brahmin family. He immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of seven. He attended Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington and became a radio disc jockey during that time. In 1995, he earned his degree in mass communication, with minors in politics and philosophy, from the University of Puget Sound. During his time in college, he interned for various television news stations in Washington state. Shreenivasan officially became a US citizen in 2008. He is currently married to Sucheta Sachdev, a music supervisor and they have a son.

RACE

Shreenivasan began his career as a reporter for WNCN in 1995 in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1996, he moved to San Francisco, California, leaving WNCN for CNET, where he worked as an anchor and correspondent, primarily covering the high-tech sector. In 2004, he landed a job at ABC News as an anchor and correspondent while also co-hosting the behind-the-scenes podcast, ‘ABC News Shuffle,’ with Jake Tapper. After working with ABC for 3 years and 2 months, he joined CBS News in March 2007, working as a correspondent. In December 2009, he left CBS News and joined the PBS NewsHour. He currently works as an anchor and mr. correspondent. Along with this, he also serves as director of digital partnerships and helps guide the digital strategy of Newshour’s online efforts.

Since Shreenivasan joined PBS, he has also been involved in various projects. Some of these are ‘Coping with Climate Change’, a project that demonstrated the effect of rising global temperatures and changing weather patterns on American communities, ‘The Doubleheader’, a web-only unscripted video series documenting the sport of politics and the politics of sports. and ‘PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs,’ which connected students with a network of public broadcasting mentors, an innovative journalism curriculum, and an online collaboration space to develop digital media, critical thinking, and communication skills while learning produce original news reports. She also hosted the talk with PM of India in Manhattan once.

Shreenivasan has received Emmy nominations for NewsHour’s coverage of the Gulf oil spill and for his reporting on CBS. He has also received several Outstanding Story Awards from the South Asian Journalists Association, an organization for which he served as a board member from 2001 to 2004. During his career years, he has run his own Production Company and worked as a freelance reporter for KTVU-TV in Oakland, California. Shreenivasan is also a member of the Asian American Journalists Association and a 2003 graduate of its Executive Leadership Program. He has been earning a lucrative amount of salary and his net worth is also in the millions.