Tariq Panja

Tariq Panja is a British journalist who is a global sports reporter for The New York Times based in London.[1]

Career

Panja began his journalism career as a general news reporter at the Manchester Evening News in 2004 before joining the Associated Press as a news reporter in 2005. He also had a short stint at the pan-European broadcaster Eurosport.

He left to cover sports news for Bloomberg LP in 2008 and he broke a string of exclusives surrounding corruption at football's world governing body, FIFA.[2] He moved to The New York Times as a sports reporter in 2017 at the insistence of assistant sports editor Andrew Das.[3]

Panja co-authored "Football's Secret Trade: How the Player Transfer Market was Infiltrated," published by Bloomberg in 2017.[4] Later that year, he made the shortlist for the media category at the Asian Football Awards.[5] He is a regular contributor to NPR.[6]

References
  1. "Tariq Panja". The New York Times. 2019-02-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  2. "Tariq Panja, Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  3. "Tariq Panja Joins Sports". The New York Times Company. 2017-08-07. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  4. "Football's Secret Trade by Alex Duff, Tariq Panja | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  5. "Asian Football Awards, Media Shortlist 2017". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  6. "Hungary To Decide Fate Of Man Behind Football Leaks". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
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