Emma Quayle is a journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

 at The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

newspaper in Melbourne, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Joining as a cadet in 1999, she has covered sport since 2001, specialising in Australian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 football. Quayle won AFL Media Association Awards in 2005 and 2006 for her coverage of under-18 football and the AFL draft. Her first book - The Draft: inside the AFL's search for talent, featured the junior careers of Trent Cotchin

Trent Cotchin

Trent William Cotchin is an Australian rules football player who was recruited at pick 2 in the 2007 AFL Draft by the Richmond Football Club. He was recruited from the Northern Knights under 18 football club, which made the preliminary finals of the 2007 TAC Cup competition...

, Ben McEvoy

Ben McEvoy

Ben McEvoy is an Australian rules footballer for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Early career:...

, Brad Ebert

Brad Ebert

Bradley "Brad" Ebert is an Australian rules footballer currently listed with in the Australian Football League .-Career:...

, Cyril Rioli

Cyril Rioli

Cyril Rioli is a professional Australian rules footballer currently playing with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...

 and Patrick Veszpremi

Patrick Veszpremi

Patrick Veszpremi is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League, having previously played for the Sydney Swans....

 in the leadup to the 2007 AFL Draft

2007 AFL Draft

The 2007 AFL Draft consisted of four opportunities for player acquisitions during the 2007/08 Australian Football League off-season. These were trade week, the National Draft, the Pre-Season Draft and the Rookie Draft.- Trades :...

, was published by Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at the time the UK parent company, Unwin Hyman, was...

 in September 2008. Quayle won the Grant Hattam Award - awarded to the creator of the best piece of football journalism from the players' perspective - at the AFL Players Association MVP night in September 2009 and was named the Australian Football Media Association's Outstanding Feature Writer in 2010, for stories on Fremantle coach Mark Harvey's secret brain surgery, Western Bulldog Sam Reid's diagnosis with type 1 diabetes and the birth of the Gold Coast Football Club. Her second book, Nine Lives, the story of former Essendon wingman Adam Ramanauskas' battle with cancer, was published in June 2010 by Penguin.

External links

• Profile at Allen and Unwin
• Profile at The Age
  The Age
  The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...