{{Short description|Australian journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2010}} {{Infobox person |name = Jake Niall |image = |occupation = Sports Journalist |website = }} '''Jake Niall''' is a sports journalist at ''Fox Sports Australia'' and ''ABC Radio Grandstand'' based in Melbourne, Australia.<ref name="Perry">{{cite web|url=http://decidertv.com/page/2016/2/11/sports-journalist-jake-niall-to-join-the-team-at-fox-footy-foxfooty-foxtel|title=Sports journalist Jake Niall to join the team at Fox Footy|last=Perry|first=Kevin|date=11 February 2016|publisher=Decider TV|accessdate=11 April 2016}}</ref> He specialises in covering the Australian Football League, and currently appears on ''AFL Tonight'' on Fox Sports News and Fox Footy 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'' newspaper since 1995, covering AFL as well as tennis and American sports amongst others.<ref name="Caldwell">{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2002/s660123.htm|title=AFLs worst kept secret|last=Caldwell|first=Alison|date=27 August 2002|publisher=ABC Online|accessdate=5 September 2010}}</ref> He has also appeared on radio stations Triple M and SEN. On 28 November 2017, it was announced that Niall would return to ''The Age'' as chief football (AFL) writer, replacing Caroline Wilson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/caroline-wilson-steps-down-as-the-ages-chief-football-writer-jake-niall-to-take-over-20171128-gzu4i6.html|title=Caroline Wilson steps down as The Age's chief football writer; Jake Niall to take over|date=28 November 2017|website=The Age|language=en|access-date=23 November 2018}}</ref>
Niall is the nephew of academic, biographer and literary critic Brenda Niall AO FAHA and the cousin of judge Richard Niall.
==Awards== * 2007 - Melbourne Press Club Quill Award * 2012 - Alf Brown Award * 2013 - Walkley Award (shared with Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie, Caroline Wilson, John Silvester and The Age team)<ref name="Perry"/>
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