Hari Sreenivasan Biography

Fast Facts

• The South Asian Journalists Association has honored him with multiple Outstanding Broadcast Story Awards
• Majored in mass communication and minored in politics and philosophy at the University of Puget Sound, graduating in 1995
• Worked as a disc jockey during high school and interned for news stations in Washington state during college
• An award-winning journalist, he became an online and on-air correspondent for PBS NewsHour in 2009 after working at CBS News
• Ran his own production company for a time and worked as a freelance reporter
• Reached the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts organization
• Became a U․S․ Citizen in 2008 after struggling for many years with the idea of giving up his identity as an Indian citizen