Prashant Rao

WORLD REVIEW LIVE — Gaza Peace; Venezuela in Crosshairs with @nahaltoosi.bsky.social and @prashantrao.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...

🚨 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! job-boards.greenhouse.io/semafor/jobs...

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...

🟡 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.

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/

#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

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👇

🟡 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...

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'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...

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.

🟡 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.

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...

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.

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/...

If it's good enough for @billdeblasionyc.bsky.social, it's good enough for you. Subscribe to Flagship, @semafor.com's free twice-daily global news briefing: www.semafor.com/newsletters/...

If it's good enough for @billdeblasionyc.bsky.social, it's good enough for you. Subscribe to Flagship, @semafor.com's free twice-daily global news briefing: www.semafor.com/newsletters/...

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-...

🚨 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...

🚨 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...

🇺🇸 On Monday, the FPC & @unileiden.bsky.social are hosting an Expert Q&A to analyse 100 days of Trump 2.0 - hearing from @andygawt.bsky.social, Courtney Radsch, and @prashantrao.bsky.social This webinar is from 12:30 - 13:30 (UK) and you can register here ⬇️ shorturl.at/veU5x

I managed a pretty decent time at the Richmond Park Half Marathon: next step, the London Marathon! Please support my fundraising for @rorypecktrust.bsky.social, which helps freelance journalists — whom we need more than ever before! 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/prashant-...

President Trump has upended the global world order, less than 100 days back in office. Join the FPC, @unileiden.bsky.social and experts for a Q&A analyse events so far: 📅 Mon 28 April 🕧 12:30 - 13:30 BST 📍 Online Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This lunchtime webinar will be chaired by FPC’s Alice Copland, & we will hear insights from @andygawt.bsky.social, Courtney Radsch, & @prashantrao.bsky.social Find out more here ⬇️ fpc.org.uk/events/100-d...

🟡 NEW: Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris launched financial news platform Moniify at a lavish party in November — but it quickly ran into the harsh realities of the news business, multiple current and former staffers tell Semafor.

I managed a pretty decent time at the Richmond Park Half Marathon: next step, the London Marathon! Please support my fundraising for @rorypecktrust.bsky.social, which helps freelance journalists — whom we need more than ever before! 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/prashant-...

I texted with the co-head of McKinsey's geopolitics practice about *waves hand* all of this Check out her response in Flagship, @semafor.com's daily global briefing: www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

This week on #WorldReview, @ivodaalder.bsky.social is joined by @prashantrao.bsky.social, @lizsly.bsky.social, and @gwhittell.bsky.social to discuss the US-China trade war, tariff whiplash, and Iran nuclear talks. Watch live tomorrow at 10 a.m. CT: 📺⤵️ brnw.ch/21wRV8M

It’s Thursday with @waytooearly.bsky.social: ☀️ @prashantrao.bsky.social ☕️ Bridget Bowman 🌞 Rep. @morganmcgarvey.bsky.social 🌅 @daveweigel.bsky.social If you’re up, reply here or email (waytooearly@msnbc.com) with why. #waytooearly

This lunchtime webinar will be chaired by FPC’s Alice Copland, and we will hear from @andygawt.bsky.social, Courtney Radsch, and @prashantrao.bsky.social Find out more here ⬇️ fpc.org.uk/events/100-d...

Several African nations could soon run out of HIV drugs following Washington’s freeze on foreign aid. The US funding program for HIV drugs is credited with saving 26 million lives, and its potential closure threatens to “undo 20 years of progress,” the WHO chief said.

I'm running #TCSLondonMarathon in support of @rorypecktrust.bsky.social, which supports freelance journalists in need of support. Please consider making a donation — of any size! — I'd really appreciate it 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/prashant-...

So grateful to @prashantrao.bsky.social who's running the London Marathon this April on behalf of Rory Peck Trust. 🙌 Thank you for running 42.1 kilometres - go Prashant! 👟 🎽 You can show your support and donate here. 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/prashant-...

Prashant Rao @prashantrao.bsky.social at Semafor @semafor.com interviewed Carmen Nuzzo, Professor in Practice and Executive Director at the TPI Centre at LSE, for his article, “Barely anyone has outlined emissions cuts. Financiers see that as an opportunity”: www.semafor.com/article/03/0...

Scoop in today's @semafor.com Net Zero: Senior Democrats worry Trump's foreign aid freeze and chaos at USAID pose an urgent threat to Ukraine’s energy security and will harm efforts toward it reaching a peace deal with Russia www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Patrice Louvet’s predecessor lasted less than two years. Here’s how Ralph Lauren’s CEO made the brand relevant again, engineered a financial turnaround, and managed the delicate challenge of working for a founder whose name is on every item he sells. www.semafor.com/article/01/3...

More: At @theatlantic.com, I edited Tahir Izgil's masterful account of his final days in Xinjiang and persecution of Uyghurs there, and asked @deepseek.bsky.social about him. Unlike the back-and-forth about June 4, this one looked broadly right

Kinda fascinating to see DeepSeek outline its thinking about why it can’t discuss what happened in Beijing on June 4, 1989

US military recruitment hit its target for the first time in a decade last year — thanks to enlistments by women. For more, read @semafor.com's daily global briefing, Flagship: www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Today's edition of @semafor.com's global newsletter features the London Review of Substacks, our look at the best newsletter-writing on the web. This week, we feature Snowden Todd, @mjrobbins.bsky.social, and @cartoonshateher.bsky.social in @mattyglesias.bsky.social: www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Countries must submit their "nationally determined contributions" on carbon emissions next month as part of Paris Agreement commitments. Perhaps no country's NDC plan is more eagerly awaited than China's. We preview its plans in @semafor.com's Net Zero newsletter www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

For @semafor.com's daily global newsletter, Flagship, I texted with @ianbremmer.com of @eurasiagroup.net about the year ahead. Check out his response: www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...