Prashant Rao

About

I am Senior Editor at Semafor. We are a growing global news platform that seeks to provide high levels of transparency and to explore competing perspectives on the world's most important stories.I have previously reported and edited from a wide variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; been the bureau chief for a major news organization's Iraq offices; and worked for several different types of outlets, from an agency, to a newspaper, to a magazine. I have covered conflict, elections, sporting events, summits, and economic and business issues.Stories I edited have won or were shortlisted for the U.K. Foreign Press Association Awards, the Society of Publishers in Asia Awards, the Human Rights Press Awards, the SABEW Best in Business Award, the Orwell Prize, the Newhouse Mirror Award, the Livingston Award for International Reporting, the UK Press Awards, and the British Journalism Awards.