Prashant Rao
@prashantrao.bsky.social
Semafor Senior Editor, responsible for international and climate coverage.
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Ex-The Atlantic and The New York Times in London, AFP in Baghdad
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Ex-The Atlantic and The New York Times in London, AFP in Baghdad
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WORLD REVIEW LIVE — Gaza Peace; Venezuela in Crosshairs with @nahaltoosi.bsky.social and @prashantrao.bsky.social
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WORLD REVIEW LIVE — Gaza Peace; Venezuela in Crosshairs with Nahal Toosi and Prashant Rao
A recording from Ivo Daalder's live video
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October 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
WORLD REVIEW LIVE — Gaza Peace; Venezuela in Crosshairs with @nahaltoosi.bsky.social and @prashantrao.bsky.social
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A data center project in Kenya that was meant to offer a blueprint for the US to leverage tech giants and allies to fend off China in a burgeoning tech race in Africa has stalled, a @semafor.com investigation showed.
Tremendous reporting by @alexisak.bsky.social and Kelsey Warner
A data center project in Kenya that was meant to offer a blueprint for the US to leverage tech giants and allies to fend off China in a burgeoning tech race in Africa has stalled, a @semafor.com investigation showed.
Tremendous reporting by @alexisak.bsky.social and Kelsey Warner
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🟡 SCOOP
A data center project in Kenya that was meant to offer a blueprint for the US to leverage tech giants and allies to fend off China in a burgeoning tech race in Africa has stalled, a @semafor.com investigation showed.
Tremendous reporting by @alexisak.bsky.social and Kelsey Warner
A data center project in Kenya that was meant to offer a blueprint for the US to leverage tech giants and allies to fend off China in a burgeoning tech race in Africa has stalled, a @semafor.com investigation showed.
Tremendous reporting by @alexisak.bsky.social and Kelsey Warner
🚨 EXCITING NEW JOB ALERT 🚨
@semafor.com is expanding its coverage of Africa and is hiring for maybe the most exciting job on the continent: Chief Africa Correspondent.
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@semafor.com is expanding its coverage of Africa and is hiring for maybe the most exciting job on the continent: Chief Africa Correspondent.
Interested? Get in touch!
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Chief Africa Correspondent
Remote - Africa
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September 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🚨 EXCITING NEW JOB ALERT 🚨
@semafor.com is expanding its coverage of Africa and is hiring for maybe the most exciting job on the continent: Chief Africa Correspondent.
Interested? Get in touch!
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@semafor.com is expanding its coverage of Africa and is hiring for maybe the most exciting job on the continent: Chief Africa Correspondent.
Interested? Get in touch!
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Nitrous oxide driving, with drivers using balloons behind the wheel, feels like it’s on the rise in London - backed up by what medical experts told us about referrals. But the scale of the issue is obscured because of how crashes are recorded in police stats. www.londoncentric.media/p/nitrous-ox...
Nitrous oxide drivers are causing chaos on London's roads
Plus: Did Reform nominate a dead woman for mayor, which big TV series is pretending to be called "Dark Train", and will the Central Line ever get the upgrades it deserves?
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August 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Nitrous oxide driving, with drivers using balloons behind the wheel, feels like it’s on the rise in London - backed up by what medical experts told us about referrals. But the scale of the issue is obscured because of how crashes are recorded in police stats. www.londoncentric.media/p/nitrous-ox...
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Holy smokes, you need AMERICANA! www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
August 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Holy smokes, you need AMERICANA! www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
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🟡 SCOOP: Saudi Arabia’s NEOM is considering significantly cutting its workforce and relocating more than 1,000 employees to Riyadh as the kingdom tries to control costs and improve oversight.
Saudi considers NEOM job cuts, relocations amid cost pressures
More than 1,000 people may be moved and a further 1,000 laid off as part of a sweeping audit of the $500 billion project.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🟡 SCOOP: Saudi Arabia’s NEOM is considering significantly cutting its workforce and relocating more than 1,000 employees to Riyadh as the kingdom tries to control costs and improve oversight.
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Delighted to have @prashantrao.bsky.social @semafor.com as an expert judge of the #RoryPeckAwards 2025.
Just 9 days to enter your work or nominate a freelance journalist you have worked with or admire rorypecktrust.org/awards/
Just 9 days to enter your work or nominate a freelance journalist you have worked with or admire rorypecktrust.org/awards/
July 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Delighted to have @prashantrao.bsky.social @semafor.com as an expert judge of the #RoryPeckAwards 2025.
Just 9 days to enter your work or nominate a freelance journalist you have worked with or admire rorypecktrust.org/awards/
Just 9 days to enter your work or nominate a freelance journalist you have worked with or admire rorypecktrust.org/awards/
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#ICYMI UK law firms have reported a surge in US-based nonprofits inquiring about creating legal entities in Britain, either to begin shifting their operations and funds abroad or as a precautionary step. www.semafor.com/article/06/1... via @prashantrao.bsky.social
Fearing Trump action, US nonprofits seek shelter in the UK
Several American nonprofits are exploring setting up legal entities in Britain, in part as a precautionary measure against feared executive orders.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#ICYMI UK law firms have reported a surge in US-based nonprofits inquiring about creating legal entities in Britain, either to begin shifting their operations and funds abroad or as a precautionary step. www.semafor.com/article/06/1... via @prashantrao.bsky.social
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www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... 💥 EXC: For my first edition of the New Statesman as editor, I went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest feelings — and those of the country he leads👇
What Keir Starmer can’t say
The Prime Minister believes he will heal Britain – but can he find the words?
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June 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... 💥 EXC: For my first edition of the New Statesman as editor, I went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest feelings — and those of the country he leads👇
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🟡 SCOOP: The Committee to Protect Journalists has directed a British law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential Trump administration targeting of American nonprofits.
Fearing Trump action, US nonprofits seek shelter in the UK
Several American nonprofits are exploring setting up legal entities in Britain, in part as a precautionary measure against feared executive orders.
www.semafor.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🟡 SCOOP: The Committee to Protect Journalists has directed a British law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential Trump administration targeting of American nonprofits.
🟡 @semafor.com SCOOP by me
@pressfreedom.bsky.social has directed a British law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential Trump administration executive orders targeting American nonprofits.
www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
@pressfreedom.bsky.social has directed a British law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential Trump administration executive orders targeting American nonprofits.
www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
Fearing Trump action, US nonprofits seek shelter in the UK
Several American nonprofits are exploring setting up legal entities in Britain, in part as a precautionary measure against feared executive orders.
www.semafor.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🟡 @semafor.com SCOOP by me
@pressfreedom.bsky.social has directed a British law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential Trump administration executive orders targeting American nonprofits.
www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
@pressfreedom.bsky.social has directed a British law firm to set up a legal entity in the UK, in part as a precautionary measure against potential Trump administration executive orders targeting American nonprofits.
www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
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Smart and fun piece by @jim.londoncentric.media of @londoncentric.media for @semafor.com looking at the parallels between Musk-Trump and Cummings-Johnson www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
What Washington can learn from a legendary London meltdown
Dominic Cummings’ ties to Johnson share plenty of parallels with Musk’s closeness to Trump.
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June 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Smart and fun piece by @jim.londoncentric.media of @londoncentric.media for @semafor.com looking at the parallels between Musk-Trump and Cummings-Johnson www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
Smart and fun piece by @jim.londoncentric.media of @londoncentric.media for @semafor.com looking at the parallels between Musk-Trump and Cummings-Johnson www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
What Washington can learn from a legendary London meltdown
Dominic Cummings’ ties to Johnson share plenty of parallels with Musk’s closeness to Trump.
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June 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Smart and fun piece by @jim.londoncentric.media of @londoncentric.media for @semafor.com looking at the parallels between Musk-Trump and Cummings-Johnson www.semafor.com/article/06/0...
What's Donald Trump's strategy in Syria? His former Middle East envoy explains in a new @semafor.com column www.semafor.com/article/05/3...
Trump bets on Gulf in unconventional Syria policy
Easing sanctions on Syria may pull Damascus into a Gulf-led regional realignment.
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May 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
What's Donald Trump's strategy in Syria? His former Middle East envoy explains in a new @semafor.com column www.semafor.com/article/05/3...
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New: In an email to staff, Washington Post editor Matt Murray said the paper would be offering buyouts to any employee who has been at the Post for over ten years, as well as all members of the video department, copy desk, and sports copy desk.
May 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New: In an email to staff, Washington Post editor Matt Murray said the paper would be offering buyouts to any employee who has been at the Post for over ten years, as well as all members of the video department, copy desk, and sports copy desk.
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🟡 SCOOP: The US Department of Energy plans to cancel seven major loans and loan guarantees that had been conditionally approved under the Biden administration, @timmcdonnell.bsky.social reports.
US plans to cancel 7 conditional commitments for green projects
The projects, which had been conditionally approved by the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, are mostly battery factories.
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May 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🟡 SCOOP: The US Department of Energy plans to cancel seven major loans and loan guarantees that had been conditionally approved under the Biden administration, @timmcdonnell.bsky.social reports.
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Scoop, per a source close to the process: LPO will cancel 7 conditional loans/guarantees, the projects are listed here and include Monolith, Sunnova, and others www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
US plans to cancel 7 conditional commitments for green projects
The projects, which had been approved by the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, are mostly battery factories.
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May 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Scoop, per a source close to the process: LPO will cancel 7 conditional loans/guarantees, the projects are listed here and include Monolith, Sunnova, and others www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
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Everything from car washes to razor blades is now sold on monthly memberships that investors have gotten hooked on. With consumers cutting back, that model looks threatened.
Can Wall Street’s subscription craze survive a recession?
Everything from car washes to razor blades is now sold on monthly memberships that investors have gotten hooked on. With consumers cutting back, that model looks threatened.
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May 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Everything from car washes to razor blades is now sold on monthly memberships that investors have gotten hooked on. With consumers cutting back, that model looks threatened.
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We've just advertised this year's Carbon Brief summer journalism internship, a fantastic 3-week opportunity to gain experience from some of the world's best climate journalists
Paid London Living Wage + travel bursary
Details on how to apply here:
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Paid London Living Wage + travel bursary
Details on how to apply here:
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.
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May 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
We've just advertised this year's Carbon Brief summer journalism internship, a fantastic 3-week opportunity to gain experience from some of the world's best climate journalists
Paid London Living Wage + travel bursary
Details on how to apply here:
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Paid London Living Wage + travel bursary
Details on how to apply here:
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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If it's good enough for @billdeblasionyc.bsky.social, it's good enough for you.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
If it's good enough for @billdeblasionyc.bsky.social, it's good enough for you.
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If it's good enough for @billdeblasionyc.bsky.social, it's good enough for you.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
If it's good enough for @billdeblasionyc.bsky.social, it's good enough for you.
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Grateful to @swedeninuk.bsky.social and the Nordic Embassies in London, for hosting tonight's #WPFD25 event and to @meeraselva.bsky.social, @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social & @prashantrao.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts on the global state of #pressfreedom.
April 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Grateful to @swedeninuk.bsky.social and the Nordic Embassies in London, for hosting tonight's #WPFD25 event and to @meeraselva.bsky.social, @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social & @prashantrao.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts on the global state of #pressfreedom.
Over the past 24 hours, I've had the privilege of running the London Marathon and speaking at a diplomatic event, both in aid of a cause I care deeply about: press freedom.
I'm still raising money for @rorypecktrust.bsky.social, so please do donate! 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/prashant-...
I'm still raising money for @rorypecktrust.bsky.social, so please do donate! 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/prashant-...
April 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Over the past 24 hours, I've had the privilege of running the London Marathon and speaking at a diplomatic event, both in aid of a cause I care deeply about: press freedom.
I'm still raising money for @rorypecktrust.bsky.social, so please do donate! 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/prashant-...
I'm still raising money for @rorypecktrust.bsky.social, so please do donate! 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/prashant-...
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We at @semafor.com are hiring an early-career journalist for our UK Newsroom Fellowship.
Details — including pay ranges — are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...
We at @semafor.com are hiring an early-career journalist for our UK Newsroom Fellowship.
Details — including pay ranges — are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...
Newsroom Fellow (UK)
London, England
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April 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We at @semafor.com are hiring an early-career journalist for our UK Newsroom Fellowship.
Details — including pay ranges — are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...
We at @semafor.com are hiring an early-career journalist for our UK Newsroom Fellowship.
Details — including pay ranges — are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We at @semafor.com are hiring an early-career journalist for our UK Newsroom Fellowship.
Details — including pay ranges — are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...
We at @semafor.com are hiring an early-career journalist for our UK Newsroom Fellowship.
Details — including pay ranges — are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...
Newsroom Fellow (UK)
London, England
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April 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We at @semafor.com are hiring an early-career journalist for our UK Newsroom Fellowship.
Details — including pay ranges — are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...
We at @semafor.com are hiring an early-career journalist for our UK Newsroom Fellowship.
Details — including pay ranges — are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...