Matt Lawton (journalist)

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Matt Lawton
Born12 April 1970 (1970-04-12) (age 53)
Alma mater Loughborough University
OccupationSports Journalist
Employer The Times
AwardsSports News Reporter of the Year, Sports Journalist of the Year

Matt Lawton (born 12 April 1970) is an English sports journalist who is currently the chief sports correspondent for The Times newspaper. [1] [2] He was previously the chief sports reporter for the Daily Mail .

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Education

Lawton was educated at Loughborough University and City, University of London. [3]

Career

Lawton started his career at the Western Daily Press in 1993 before joining the Daily Express and then The Daily Telegraph . He moved to the Daily Mail in 2002 and was chief football correspondent and executive sport editor before becoming chief sports reporter. In September 2019 he joined The Times. [4]

Lawton was named Sports News Reporter of the Year at the British Sports Journalism Awards in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, [5] Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2015, and Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards in 2016 and 2020. [6]

In 2021, with little else to do, Lawton began covering the Brentford Fans Civil War, including an article in which he revealed that a Brentford fan had received ‘excrement’ through the post after being accused of grassing on banned supporters. [7]

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References

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  2. "2017 British Sports Journalism Awards – Sports Journalists' Association". www.sportsjournalists.co.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  3. "Daily Mail chief sports writer Matt Lawton - Press Gazette". Press Gazette. 7 February 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  4. "Promotion for Daily Mail football writer Matt Lawton – Sports Journalists' Association". www.sportsjournalists.co.uk. 8 October 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  5. "Past winners of the SJA British Sports Journalism Awards". Sports Journalists' Association.
  6. "Times wins Newspaper of the Year at Press Awards by Jessie Sampson". www.newsworks.org.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  7. "Brentford contact police over threats made to supporter". thetimes.co.uk/. Retrieved 5 January 2021.