(CBS) Hari Sreenivasan joins CBS News as a correspondent based in its Dallas bureau effective March 12.

Sreenivasan was a co-anchor of ABC's "World News Now" and "America This Morning" since August and has reported for "World News Tonight" and "Nightline." He has covered a range of stories including hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, and the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. Sreenivasan was a correspondent for ABC NewsOne, the Network's affiliate news service, and joined ABC News as an anchor for ABC "News Now" in February 2004.

Previously, he was a reporter for KTVU-TV in Oakland, Calif. (2002-04). Sreenivasan served as an anchor and senior correspondent for CNET Broadcast in San Francisco, Calif. (1996-2002) and was a reporter for WNCN-TV in Raleigh, N.C. (1995-96).

He is the recipient of the 1997, 1998 and 1999 Outstanding Broadcast Story Award presented by the South Asian Journalists Association, an organization for which he served as a board member from 2001-04. Sreenivasan also is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

He was born in Mumbai, India, where he also spent his early childhood. Sreenivasan was graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 1995 with a degree in mass communication and minors in politics and philosophy.

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