Daniel Taylor (journalist)

Daniel Taylor is a British journalist who has been the chief football writer for The Guardian and The Observer since 2012, having joined the newspaper in 2000. In March 2017 he won news reporter of the year and sports journalist of the year at The Press Awards for his series of stories about child sexual abuse in football.[1]

He also won the Sports Journalists' Association football writer of the year in both 2015 and 2016 as well as the scoop of the year prize for his investigation into the abuse scandal. The London Press Club also honoured him in 2017 with its scoop of the year award and there have been further honours from the British Journalism Awards and the Foreign Press Association, which named him both sports journalist and news journalist of the year.

Taylor has also been commended for his exposure of a cover-up within the Football Association after the England women's footballer Eniola Aluko made complaints about alleged racial discrimination from the manager Mark Sampson. The FA subsequently apologised to Aluko after the investigation led to a parliamentary hearing. A new inquiry upheld Aluko's allegations.

He began his career at the Newark Advertiser and was a freelance journalist for several years in Leicester and Manchester before joining The Guardian in 1999. Originally from Nottinghamshire, he is based in Manchester and London.

In November 2015 he published I Believe in Miracles, a book on the rise of Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough, to accompany the film of the same name.[2] He is a lifelong Nottingham Forest fan and has written another book about the club, Deep into the Forest, published in 2011. His other publications include This is the One, a two-year diary of covering Alex Ferguson's time at Manchester United.[3]

The book publishers Pan MacMillan announced that Taylor would be the ghost-writer for Kevin Keegan's autobiography, which is due to be released in 2018.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Guardian journalists among Press Awards winners". The Guardian. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Bate, Adam (11 November 2015). "I Believe in Miracles: Q&A with author Daniel Taylor on new Nottingham Forest book". Sky Sports. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  3. ↑ Miller, Nick (17 March 2016). "Vox in the Box: Danny Taylor". The Set Pieces. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  4. ↑ Cowdrey, Katherine (17 October 2017). "Kevin Keegan signs with Pan Mac". The Bookseller. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
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