Sree is a journalism educator at Columbia University, freelance technology reporter and an expert on convergence journalism - teaching journalists to work in multiple media formats such as print, TV, radio and online.

In January 2008, he was promoted to a newly created position at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Dean of Student Affairs, overseeing all aspects student affairs for the school's 400ish students from 25+ countries - Admissions and Financial Aid, Student Services/Acitivities, Career Services. He had previous worked as Dean of Students from July 2005-December 2007.

In this, his 14th year of teaching, he continues to run, and teach in, the new media/Web journalism program. In July 2007, he was promoted to Professor of Professional Practice. He also teaches workshops in "Smarter Surfing: Better Use of Your Web Time", Figuring Out Blogs & Whatever's Next, along with other topics, in newsrooms and educational institutions around the US and abroad.

Sree has been a fixture on NYC-area television for seven years. He is WNBC's tech reporter, covering all kinds of technology issues, gadgets and trends. He appears twice a week, on Thursday mornings at 6:20 and Monday evenings at 5:20 on NBC-4. He also blogs ("New to Sree) and does other web work for WNBC.com (samples). He had previously served for six years as the "Tech Guru" on WABC-TV (he made 500+ appearances there). He has hosted and helped produce two half-hour specials about technology: Dec. 2007's "Tech4NY: Holiday Gifts" for WNBC and April 2002's "Computers 101" for WABC. He has also guest hosted segments of "Asian America" on PBS, a nationally syndicated English program about Asian American affairs (samples).

As a freelance journalist, he has written for The New York Times, Business Week, Popular Science, Time Digital, National Journal, India Today, Newsday, Bloomberg, Forbes.com, Sesame Street Parents, Rolling Stone (samples). He has been published in several other periodicals, including the Fiji Sun (in which he got his first byline at 15), and has been a freelance producer for the "Nightly Business Report" on PBS and a reporter and editor in India for The Sunday Observer and Business Today. From 2001-2007, he wrote a twice-a-month Web Tips column at Poynter.org (read online and e-mailed to 10,000+ media subscribers) and for several years wrote a weekly "Sree's Smarter Surfing" tip for ShopTalk, the largest newsletter (he gave up both as his role at Columbia increased).

He is co-founder and former president of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, a group of 1,000+ South Asian journalists in New York and across the U.S. and Canada. A former administrator of SAJA's awards and scholarships programs, he continues to serve on its executive board and to write regularly for SAJAforum.org, its newsy blog.

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Sree Sreenivasan

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