Jake Niall is a sports journalist at '' Fox Sports Australia'' and ''

ABC Radio Grandstand ABC Sport, formerly ABC Radio Grandstand, is a live radio sports focused commentary and talk-back program which runs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) local radio network across Australia and on one digital-only station. History ...

'' based in

Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

. He specialises in covering the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

, and currently appears on '' AFL Tonight'' on Fox Sports News and

Fox Footy Fox Footy (stylised as FOX FOOTY) is an Australian rules football subscription television channel dedicated to screening Australian rules football matches and related programming. It is owned by Fox Sports Australia operated out of its Melbou ...

amongst other appearances on the network. He has also appeared as a guest host on AFL 360 when regular host Mark Robinson is absent. He moved to Fox Sports in 2016, having previously worked for ''

The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...

'' newspaper since 1995, covering AFL as well as tennis and American sports amongst others. He has also appeared on radio stations

Triple M Triple M is an Australian commercial radio network owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo. The network consists of 45 radio stations with flagship stations broadcasting a mainstream/classic rock music format in Sydney, Melbourne, and B ...

and SEN. On 28 November 2017, it was announced that Niall would return to ''The Age'' as chief football (AFL) writer, replacing Caroline Wilson. Niall is the nephew of academic, biographer and literary critic

Brenda Niall Brenda Mary Niall (born 25 November 1930) is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd family of artists and writers. Educated at Genazzano FCJ College, in Kew, Victoria, ...

AO FAHA and the cousin of judge

Richard Niall Richard Michael Niall is an Australian jurist who has served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria since 3 February 2025. He previously served as a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 28 November ...

Awards

* 2007 -

Melbourne Press Club The Melbourne Press Club (MPC), is a not-for-profit association of journalists in the city of Melbourne, Australia. It runs the annual Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism. Governance MPC is a not-for-profit association of journal ...

Quill Award * 2012 - Alf Brown Award * 2013 -

Walkley Award The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ...

(shared with Richard Baker,

Nick McKenzie Nick McKenzie is an Australian investigative journalist. He has won twenty Walkley Awards, been named twice as Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, and received the Kennedy Awar ...

, Caroline Wilson, John Silvester and The Age team)

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian sports journalists Journalists from Melbourne {{Australia-journalist-stub