Hari Sreenivasan
Birth Name:
Hariharan Sreenivasan
Birth Place:
Mumbai, India
Profession
Actor
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
- Became a U․S․ Citizen in 2008 after struggling for many years with the idea of giving up his identity as an Indian citizen
- Reached the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts organization
Awards
- 2011Emmy - New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage:Nominated
- 2015Emmy - Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast:Winner
- 2018Emmy - Outstanding Science, Medical, and Environmental Report:Nominated