Hari Sreenivasan Biography
Hari Sreenivasan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist working as the anchor of PBS NewsHour Weekend, a senior correspondent for PBS NewsHour and host of the national public television series SciTech Now.
Prior to joining NewsHour, he was at CBS News, reporting for the “CBS Evening News,” “The Early Show” and “CBS Sunday Morning.”
Hari Sreenivasan Age
He was born in January 1974 in Mumbai, India.
Hari Sreenivasan Height
Hari stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches tall.
Hari Sreenivasan Education
He graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics, Philosophy and Communications.
Hari Sreenivasan Family
Hari has not revealed the identity of his parents. They immigrated from India to the United States and settled in the Seattle area. In an interview, Hari said he began his “career” in journalism young as he used to translate Peter Jennings’ nightly news reports for his parents.
“During my childhood in Renton, Washington, after we immigrated, I would translate [longtime ABC World News Tonight anchor] Peter Jennings every night to my parents. They’d be working on their English, I’d be working on my English, and I would explain to them what was going on. That was my first newscasting experience, I guess — to an audience of two.”
Hari Sreenivasan Parents
Hari seems to keep his personal and professional life apart, because of that, he has not disclosed the parents’ names.
Hari Sreenivasan Siblings
Hari lives a low profile life, due to that, he has not revealed his siblings’ details.
Hari Sreenivasan Ethnicity
He belongs to Asian ancestry. He is a member of both the South Asian Journalists Association and the Asian American Journalists Association.
Hari Sreenivasan Wife
Hari is married to Sucheta Sachdev, who is a music supervisor and is also Hindu.
Hari Sreenivasan Children
Hari and his wife Sucheta Sachdev, have a son although they have not revealed his name or his face.
Hari Sreenivasan Nationality
Hari is an American national. He was born in India but immigrated to the United States at the age of seven years.
Hari Sreenivasan PBS
Hari is an anchor and senior correspondent on PBS. He has covered health, science, climate change and education for the PBS NewsHour and is also the anchor for the PBS NewsHour Weekend. He joined PBS NewsHour in 2009 as an online and on-air correspondent and was responsible for guiding the development of the NewsHour’s Web presence and relationship to local public media.
He is also the host of the national public television series SciTech Now. Since March 2020 he has served as the host and executive producer for Take on Fake, a webby award-winning where he debunks ” claims you’ve seen or shared online to show you how to stay informed. We peek into the Internet rabbit hole of misinformation, show you how the falsehood spread and help you become more informed consumers in the process.”
He began his career in journalism as a radio DJ for KNHC in high school. KNHC was a radio station for Nathan Hale High School in Seattle and had a fully-powered, 30,000 watt stereo station for high school kids to run.
He said he was inspired to join television as they was lack of South Asian representation on the air as at the time, the most famous South Asian was Apu from The Simpsons. He also noticed that news stories often got fundamentals about Indian-American society, Hinduism, and India-Pakistan relations wrong, and that if they didn’t have a seat at the table, we couldn’t make editorial decisions.
During his time in college, he started taking internships at local TV stations in Seattle. He said he had to ” muscle my way into one during my sophomore year, because the internship was primarily reserved for seniors.” He made a pitch and asked to be given 10 days and he did well as he was reserved.
In 1995 he joined WNCN as a reporter where he worked for a year before joining CNET Broadcast in Francisco as an anchor and correspondent. He later joined ABC News, working extensively on the network’s 24-hour digital service “ABC News Now.” He also reported for “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings”, “Nightline with Ted Koppel,” and anchored the overnight program “World News Now”.
In 2015, Sreenivasan earned an Emmy award for outstanding investigative journalism for a PBS NewsHour story on gold mining by children in the Philippines.
Hari Sreenivasan Leaves PBS
Hari is still working at PBS as at 2021.
Hari Sreenivasan Weight Loss
Hari lost some weight in 2014 which he credited to his ability to visualize on his own data. This was after he did a story on body quantification.
“I’ll credit some of my weight loss last year (though I need to get more focused on it again) with the ability to visualize my own data. Seeing how many calories I burned on my bike rides to and from work helped prime me toward healthier habits the rest of the day. But the most interesting bits were the sleep data.”
Hari Sreenivasan Salary
Hari earns an annual estimated salary of USD 100,000.
Hari Sreenivasan Net worth
He has an estimated net worth of USD 3 million.
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