Hari Sreenivasan
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Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan (born 1974) is an India
India
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n-born journalist who has worked primarily for American broadcast media.

Sreenivasan was born in Mumbai
Mumbai
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, India around 1974. After immigrating to the United States at age seven, he attended high school in Seattle, Washington
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, where he became a radio disc jockey
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. While earning his degree in 1995 in mass communication (with minors in politics and philosophy) at University of Puget Sound
University of Puget Sound
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, he interned for several TV news stations in Washington state
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. In September 2008, Sreenivasan became an American citizen.

He was hired full-time in 1995 by NBC
NBC
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 affiliate WNCN
WNCN
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-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina
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 and later moved to San Francisco, California
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, to work for CNET
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, covering the high tech
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 sector. In 2004, Sreenivasan joined ABC News
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 in New York City
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 as a correspondent; he became co-anchor, with Taina Hernandez
Taina Hernandez
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, of World News Now
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, and concurrently co-hosted, with Jake Tapper
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, the behind-the-scenes podcast
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 ABC News Shuffle. In 2009, he worked as a correspondent for CBS News
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's Dallas bureau
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.

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.

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