Skip to content

Jake Niall

Jake Niall

About

Jake Niall is a senior sports writer at the Age, specialising in AFL football.

Jake joined the Age in 1998, having previously worked as a sports writer on the Sunday Age. He writes a blend of news, feature articles and a weekly column during the football season.

Before joining the Sunday Age, Jake was a freelance reporter in the US and a regular contributor to the Sunday Age and the Age from Los Angeles, covering diverse areas like politics, earthquakes, celebrity trials and American sport. Jake ghost wrote the autobiography (Collingwood and Me, 1991) of champion Collingwood footballer Peter Daicos.

While he writes primarily about the AFL, he spends the month of January covering tennis, especially the Australian Open. In 2008, Jake won the Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards’ Best Sports Story in any medium for his profile piece on David Schwarz.

Past Events

Not the Brownlow

Jake Niall, Peta Searle, Sam Pang, Tim Lane

Past event

11 Sep
View all

Stay up to date with our upcoming events and special announcements by subscribing to The Wheeler Centre's mailing list.

Privacy Policy

The Wheeler Centre acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Centre stands. We acknowledge and pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their Elders, past and present, as the custodians of the world’s oldest continuous living culture.