A native Londoner, Daly arrived at Northeastern with 11 years of journalism experience, including eight reporting on U.K. politics from Westminster.
Since joining the Northeastern Global News staff in April, reporter Patrick Daly has been NGN’s eyes and ears on the London campus — putting university experts in the middle of current events, promoting faculty research and profiling interesting students.
He’s written stories about the lost letters of Mary, Queen of Scots; how Keir Starmer became British prime minister in landslide Labour Party victory; and why viewers are hooked on ‘Severance’ — and the idea of separating our personal and work lives.
His stories have been read hundreds of thousands of times on the NGN website, newsletters and social media.
A veteran journalist, Daly arrived at Northeastern with 11 years of experience in mainstream media, including eight reporting on U.K. politics from Westminster. His bylines have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, Sun and many other publications. And his reporting has included interviews with several prime ministers and a trip to India for the G-20 summit.
In addition to producing news stories from his office in Marble Quay, he’s also the fire warden for Northeastern’s London campus — ready to assist with evacuations by verifying that workspaces are properly evacuated.
Daly also likes to travel. In fact, he once spent a year abroad volunteering with an environmental charity in Australia, and later backpacked around east Africa.
Daly also enjoys searching out vinyl albums in secondhand record stores, watching Tottenham Hotspur FC play football — “don’t you dare call it soccer,” he says — and going to heavy metal concerts.
Usually on the other end of questions, Daly recently talked shop with Northeastern Global News. His answers have been edited for brevity.
I was a political correspondent in the Houses of Parliament in London for almost nine years, spending the last five of those working for the Press Association — the U.K.’s equivalent to the Associated Press.
Talking to people.
That Northeastern Global News is no different to any media organization I’ve worked at before. We tell the story of the university and cover the world through a university lens. It is a full-fledged newsroom with all the trimmings. We have reporters and editors with decades of experience, and regular writers’ meetings where we brainstorm ideas. My stories are also made better by Northeastern’s award-winning photographers, social media team and search engine optimization expert.
I used to represent the U.K.’s written media when the prime minister was traveling abroad. The likes of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other world leaders would walk into the room and it would sometimes be just me, a photographer and a cameraman there to relay what was said between the world leaders back to Britain. It really was a front row seat to history unfolding.
Getting to try a Wendy’s Baconator burger in the name of research for my NGN article on U.S. fast food chains targeting growth in Britain.
The views out of our new building, One Portsoken. Its 360-degree outlook captures the variety of what London has to offer — from the wow-factor of Tower Bridge to the rough-and-readiness of hipster neighborhood Shoreditch and the melting pot of Whitechapel.
You can either find me digging through dusty LPs in one of London’s many great vintage record shops or watching swashbuckling football at White Hart Lane, the home of the famous Spurs.
Same way as I have since I was 11 years old — on the Tube.