Sree is a journalism educator at Columbia University and an expert on convergence journalism - teaching journalists to work in multiple media formats such as print, TV, radio and online. In July 2005, he became Dean of Students at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, overseeing student affairs for the school's 400ish students. In this, his 13th year of teaching, he continues to run, and teach in, the new media/Web journalism program. He also teaches workshops in "Smarter Surfing: Better Use of Your Web Time" in newsrooms and educational institutions around the US and abroad.

In the New York City area, Sree can be seen regularly on WABC-7 -- every Thursday at 6:20 a.m. for the station's "Tech Guru" segments, discussing technology trends and gadgets on "Eyewitness News This Morning" and every Saturday morning at 7:45 for "Sree's Top Three" (samples). In April 2002, he hosted and co-produced a half-hour WABC documentary about technology called "Computers 101." He guest hosts 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.

Sree writes a twice-a-month Web Tips column at Poynter.org (read online and e-mailed to 10,000+ media subscribers) and a weekly "Smarter Surfing" tip for ShopTalk, the largest TV newsletter. 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.

For 10 years, he served as faculty adviser to Columbia's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and won the group's "National Faculty Adviser of the Year" award in 1998 among 200 campus chapters. From 2000 to 2002, he was the founding administrator of the Online Journalism Awards, the world's largest new media contest, run by Columbia and the Online News Association (a group he helped co-found in 1998).

Sree is a frequent commentator and speaker on various issues, including trends affecting journalism; technology & convergence; the Internet; writing for the Web; and South Asia & South Asians in America. He especially enjoys speaking at schools and colleges about the charms and challenges of working in the media (more on these talks and see OJR article, "Meet Columbia's New Media Guru"). In April 2004, he was named one of the 20 most influential South Asians in America by Newsweek magazine.

Sree has a Master of Science degree in journalism from Columbia; a Bachelor of Arts in history from St. Stephen's College, Delhi; a high school diploma from Marist Brothers High School in the Fiji Islands (he also studied part of 13th[!] grade at Suva Grammar School in Fiji); a sixth-grade diploma from P.S. 6 in Manhattan; a kindergarten (or deskisat) diploma from Mosow; and a birth certificate from a Catholic hospital in Tokyo (though he'd be hard-pressed to produce any of these in a pinch). He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Roopa Unnikrishnan, a management consultant, Rhodes Scholar and world-class sports rifle shooter; and their twin toddlers, Durga & Krishna.