{{short description|Indian cricket journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2013}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2010}} '''Prem Panicker''' is an Indian cricket journalist.<ref>{{cite news|title=Twitter interview with the journalist Prem Panicker (Mumbai)|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denieuwereporter.nl%2F2009%2F01%2Ftwitter-interview-met-de-journalist-prem-panicker-mumbai%2F&sl=nl&tl=en|accessdate=11 June 2010|newspaper=denieuwereporter|date=3 January 2009}}</ref> He is one of the co-founders of The Peepli Project along with Aarti Kumar-Rao and Kalyan Varma, that is now looking for funding.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vijay|first=Hema|title=Stories, not headlines|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/know/stories-not-headlines/article7637563.ece|access-date=2021-03-21|website=Business Line|date=11 September 2015}}</ref>
He was one of a handful of journalists who helped found Rediff (Nasdaq: REDF). He was based in New York City, as editor of India Abroad, the largest Indian-American newspaper, after that paper was bought by Rediff. He was Yahoo! India's Managing Editor for five years before he quit in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Choudhary|first=Vidhi|date=2014-11-20|title=Yahoo India managing editor Prem Panicker resigns|url=https://www.livemint.com/Consumer/tZyiEFaMqdqYEFePxCdINL/Yahoo-India-managing-editor-Prem-Panicker-resigns.html|access-date=2021-03-21|website=mint}}</ref> Currently, he is based in Bangalore.
He translated the book, Randamoozham from Malayalam in the serialized form on his blog.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rajendran|first=Abhilash|title=Download Novel Bhimsen by Prem Panicker – English Translation of Malayalam Novel Randamoozham by M T Vasudevan Nair|url=https://www.hindu-blog.com/2009/11/download-novel-bhimsen-by-prem-panicker.html|access-date=2021-03-21|website=The Hindu blog|date=16 November 2009 }}</ref> The original explores the Mahabharata, through the viewpoint of Bhima. This was converted into a book in the form of a single PDF document for free, called Bhimsen, in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bhimsen by Prem Panicker|url=https://thinkerviews.com/books/english-books/bhimsen-by-prem-panicker-mahabharata-as-bhim-view-it-book-reviews/|accessdate=21 January 2021|website=Thinkers Views|date=1 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Panicker|first=Prem|date=2009-10-05|title=Bhim, complete and unabridged|url=https://prempanicker.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/bhim-complete-and-unabridged/|access-date=2021-03-21|website=Smoke Signals}}</ref>
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== External links ==
* Prem Panicker on [https://twitter.com/prempanicker Twitter] * Prem Panicker's blog, [https://prempanicker.wordpress.com/ Smoke Signals on WordPress]
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