Full Name
Hari Sreenivasan
Job Title
Anchor of PBS NewsHour Weekend, a contributor to Amanpour and Company, and host of public television YouTube series Take on Fake.
Company
The WNET Group
Bio
Hari Sreenivasan is the anchor of PBS NewsHour Weekend, a contributor to Amanpour and Company, host of the national public television series SciTech Now, and host of public television YouTube series Take on Fake. Prior to joining NewsHour in, he was at CBS News, reporting for the "CBS Evening News,” "The Early Show" and "CBS Sunday Morning." Before that, he served as an anchor and correspondent for ABC News, working extensively on the network's 24-hour digital service "ABC News Now." Sreenivasan also reported for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," "Nightline with Ted Koppel," and anchored the overnight program “World News Now.” Previously, he ran his own production company and freelanced as a reporter for KTVU-TV in Oakland, California. Sreenivasan served as an anchor and senior correspondent for CNET Broadcast in San Francisco and was a reporter for WNCN-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina and KAPP-TV in Yakima, Washington. Sreenivasan received an Emmy award for a story on gold mining by children in the Philippines. He has previous nominations for work from PBS NewsHour, Frontline and during his time at CBS. Sreenivasan is a member of both the South Asian Journalists Association and the Asian American Journalists Association and a 2003 graduate of the AAJA Executive Leadership Program.
Hari Sreenivasan