Sreenivasan Jain

{{Short description|Indian journalist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Sreenivasan Jain

| image = Sreenivasan jain FB 750x500.jpg

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| birth_date = 21 November

| birth_place = India

| alma_mater = Rishi Valley School
Hindu College, University Of Delhi
University of Sussex

| spouse =

| occupation = Journalist

| years_active = 1995–present

| parents = Lakshmi Chand Jain
Devaki Jain

}}

Sreenivasan Jain is an Indian journalist who worked for NDTV from 1995 - January 2023. He is currently an adjunct faculty at O.P. Jindal Global University{{cite web|title=Sreenivasan Jain faculty|url=https://jgu.edu.in/jsjc/sreenivasan-jain/|accessdate=3 August 2023}} He was one of the prominent faces of NDTV, and during his three-decade career with the news television, served as the anchor of NDTV’s popular programmes, like Reality Check, Truth vs Hype etc. He was also the channel's Group Editor. He was NDTV's Mumbai bureau chief from 2003 to 2008. He was also briefly Managing Editor of NDTV's business channel, Profit. He is also an Op-ed columnist for the Business Standard newspaper.{{cite web|title=Sreenivasan Jain columns on Business-Standard|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/sreenivasan-jain-the-hate-calculus-113100101200_1.html|accessdate=15 June 2015}} An Op-ed column in The Hoot, an independent South Asian media watchdog, praised Jain's television coverage of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.{{cite web|title=Good rioters and bad rioters|url=http://www.thehoot.org/web/Good-rioters-and-bad-rioters/7680-1-1-14-true.html|accessdate=14 June 2015}} Jain is the grandson of M A Sreenivasan, a minister in the Princely State of Mysore, and the son of Devaki Jain and Lakshmi Chand Jain.{{cite web|title=A home that housed four generations of genius|date=9 October 2011 |url=https://churumuri.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/a-home-that-housed-four-generations-of-genius/|accessdate=16 June 2015}} On 28 January 2023, Sreenivasan Jain announced that he is quitting the channel after a nearly three-decade-long career.{{Cite web |date=2023-01-28 |title=Sreenivasan Jain quits NDTV after nearly three-decade-long career |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/sreenivasan-jain-quits-ndtv-after-nearly-three-decade-long-career-172558 |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=The News Minute |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Journalist Sreenivasan Jain Quits NDTV After Adani Group's Takeover |url=https://thewire.in/media/journalist-sreenivasan-jain-quits-ndtv-after-adani-group-takeover |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=The Wire}}

Jain later joined Newslaundry, founded by Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan and Prashant Sareen and worked on various important projects such as NL Sena and Chunaav