Tariq Panja is a journalist, and a global sports reporter for The New York Times based in London.
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. He moved to The New York Times as a sports reporter in 2017 at the insistence of assistant sports editor Andrew Das.
Panja co-authored Football's Secret Trade: How the Player Transfer Market was Infiltrated, published by Bloomberg in 2017, with Alex Duff. Later that year, he made the shortlist for the media category at the Asian Football Awards. He is a regular contributor to NPR.
References
- "Tariq Panja". The New York Times. 8 February 2019. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- "Tariq Panja, Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- "Tariq Panja Joins Sports". The New York Times Company. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- "Football's Secret Trade by Alex Duff, Tariq Panja | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- "Asian Football Awards, Media Shortlist 2017". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- "Hungary To Decide Fate Of Man Behind Football Leaks". NPR.org. Retrieved 18 February 2019.