Tariq Panja

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

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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, with Alex Duff. [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]

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References

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  2. "Tariq Panja, Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  3. "Tariq Panja Joins Sports". The New York Times Company. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
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