Layla Morgan

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Senior Sports Writer

Layla.Morgan@uaecuesports.com

Layla Morgan is a Senior Sports Writer at UAE CUE Sports covering football, cricket, tennis, golf, motorsport, basketball, padel, major events and the wider sporting landscape of the Emirates. Her reporting focuses on verified details, useful context and explaining what competitions, venues and developments mean for readers.

Updated: 10.09.2026

 
Layla Morgan was born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 1992 and grew up in an environment shaped by the international character of the city and the rapid development of the UAE's media and sporting industries. From an early stage she was interested less in following one particular sport than in understanding how major competitions, athletes, venues and sporting communities were presented to the public. During her final years at school, that interest gradually shifted toward journalism and digital media, particularly the practical side of reporting: how journalists verify information, work around live events and translate specialist subjects into stories that make sense to a wider audience. 

In 2010, Morgan entered the College of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. Her studies covered journalism, reporting, media writing, communication ethics, research, digital publishing, audio and video production and web-based storytelling. She followed the Converged Media specialization, which suited the increasingly digital direction of sports journalism and combined traditional reporting skills with multimedia production. Morgan completed her undergraduate studies in 2014, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Communication and Media Sciences. The combination of reporting, digital production and communication studies later became particularly useful in a career that would involve both newsroom work and coverage from sporting venues and events. 

After graduating, Morgan joined a regional English-language newsroom in Dubai, where her early assignments covered a broad mix of local news, community stories, interviews, event previews and sport. Working as a general reporter gave her experience in moving quickly between unfamiliar subjects, identifying reliable sources and deciding which details were genuinely useful to readers. It also meant learning the less visible parts of journalism: confirming schedules, checking names and statistics, contacting organisers, working from event information that could change at short notice and distinguishing independently useful facts from promotional material. 

She later moved toward sports-focused editorial and event-media work, contributing to projects connected with sporting venues, competition organisers and independent publishing teams in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. These roles brought her closer to the operational side of major sporting events, including accreditation, press conferences, competition schedules, athlete interviews, venue access and spectator information. Rather than limiting herself to one discipline, Morgan deliberately developed as a general sports journalist, working across football, cricket, tennis, golf, motorsport, basketball, padel and other racquet sports. She also developed an interest in national teams, major UAE events, sporting venues, athlete profiles, sports tourism and the broader culture surrounding participation and spectatorship in the Emirates. 

That broad reporting background shaped the way Morgan approaches sports journalism. She is interested not only in who won or lost, but also in the context around the result: how a competition works, where it sits in the sporting calendar, who the important participants are, what a venue means for spectators and what readers need to know before following or attending an event. Working across different disciplines has also made her careful about terminology and competition formats, since assumptions that are obvious within one sport may be completely wrong in another. 

At UAE CUE Sports, Morgan works as a Senior Sports Writer covering the wider UAE sporting landscape beyond the publication's specialist cue-sports core. Her reporting spans football, cricket, tennis, golf, motorsport, basketball, padel, national teams, major competitions, sporting venues and developments affecting athletes and fans across the Emirates. She may move from a domestic football story to an international tennis tournament, a motorsport weekend in Abu Dhabi, a new sporting facility in Dubai or a practical guide to attending a major event. 

Her editorial approach is straightforward and reader-focused. She checks names, dates, schedules, results and competition formats before building the wider story around them, separates reporting from opinion and avoids repeating promotional claims without context. Morgan also tries not to assume that every reader already understands the structure or terminology of a sport. Her aim is to give experienced fans enough detail to find the reporting useful while making the same article accessible to residents, visitors and newer followers who simply want to understand what is happening, why it matters and what they should know next. 

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Education

Zayed University

Topics

  • Sport in the United Arab Emirates The wider sporting ecosystem of the UAE, including domestic participation, international competitions, sporting venues and the country's role as a host of major events.
  • Association football Football as a competitive team sport, including leagues, clubs, national teams, fixtures, match formats and the competitive context surrounding domestic and international events.
  • Cricket A bat-and-ball team sport played in multiple formats, including Test, One Day and Twenty20 cricket, with strong professional and community participation in the UAE.

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