Jake Niall is a sports journalist at ''

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'' and ''

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'' based in

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, Australia. He specialises in covering the Australian Football League, and currently appears on '' AFL Tonight'' on Fox Sports News and

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amongst other appearances on the network. He has also appeared as a guest host on

AFL 360 ''AFL 360'' is an Australian television talk show that covers current issues in the Australian Football League (AFL). It airs on Fox Footy at Mondays to Wednesdays during the AFL season. It is hosted by Gerard Whateley and Mark Robinson, and ...

when regular host Mark Robinson is absent. He moved to Fox Sports in 2016, having previously worked for ''

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

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and SEN. On 28 November 2017, it was announced that Niall would return to ''The Age'' as chief football (AFL) writer, replacing Caroline Wilson.

Awards

* 2007 -

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Quill Award * 2012 - Alf Brown Award * 2013 -

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(shared with Richard Baker,

Nick McKenzie Nick McKenzie is an Australian investigative journalist. He has won ten Walkley Awards, been twice named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year and also received the Kennedy Award for Journalist of the Year in 2020 and 2022. He is ...

, Caroline Wilson, John Silvester and The Age team)

References

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