Niall Stanage

Who is Niall Stanage?

Niall Stanage is a journalist from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Stanage was born in 1974[3] and attended Carryduff Primary School and Methodist College Belfast, in Northern Ireland. He went on to read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. In the 1990s, he did a stint as a singer-songwriter, performing various live gigs in the UK and Ireland, playing acoustic guitar and harmonica.

Stanage is a former editor of Magill magazine. He is a regular contributor to the New York Observer while also covering the United States for a national Irish newspaper, The Sunday Business Post. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, the British newspaper The Guardian and the Irish Independent, among many other publications.[2]

He is author of Redemption Song: An Irish Reporter Inside the Obama Campaign. Redemption Song was officially released on 1 December 2008, thereby becoming one of the first books published anywhere [1] to cover the entirety of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign for the Presidency of the United States.