Dan Laughlan
Dan Laughlan covers sport for the East Anglian Daily Times, bringing experience from national and regional sports outlets into a local newsroom. His work ranges from reporting on town centre safety measures, such as ongoing breaches that trigger new bollards in busy shopping areas, to coverage of professional football clubs at the top level. The through-line in his coverage is the way he treats both local decisions and elite sport as practical stories with clear consequences for the people who live with them.
Town centre safety and public spaces
Within the East Anglian Daily Times, Laughlan contributes reporting on local authority responses to repeated safety breaches in town centres. In the bollards piece, he follows how ongoing infringements on vehicle restrictions push a council scheme for new physical barriers to its next decision point, framing public-realm changes as a live process rather than a static announcement.
That type of story shows him tracking the mechanics of enforcement and the thresholds that prompt new infrastructure, focusing on what will materially change for people who use the town centre every day.
Football coverage of major clubs
Laughlan’s sports work is anchored in football, and he has covered leading Premier League clubs including Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur for a dedicated football publication. That strand of his career places him on stories where club performance, recruitment and management decisions are scrutinised for fans of some of the most followed teams in the country.
His background in writing for national football outlets gives him familiarity with club-specific narratives, supporter expectations and the pace of breaking news around top-tier sides.
Multi-sport reporting background
Beyond football, Laughlan presents himself as a journalist who plays, watches and covers a broad range of sport, with rugby and cricket described as staples alongside the game he reports on most. He has written for regional and national sports publications, using that multi-sport lens to move between codes while keeping a consistent focus on clear storytelling for general audiences.
At the East Anglian Daily Times he now brings that breadth of sports experience into a reporting role that also demands fluency in local issues, giving him a perspective that spans both grassroots environments and the professional game.
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