Multi-award winning journalist Jake Niall will rejoinThe Age as chief football writer in the new year.
"It's been a great privilege to have spent the past two decades covering the greatest sport in the world at one of the world's best newspapers,"Wilson said.
"Although this is a melancholy day for me I'm so happy to be continuing as a contributor toThe Age. Writing a weekly column during the football season and being involved with the podcast is the ideal transition for me to do other things and I'm so proud to be handing over the baton to my great friend and long-time colleague Jake Niall.
"Jake was the perfect successor and I knowThe Age will continue to set the agenda with its unique perspective and independent coverage of Australian Rules football."
Wilson has won two Walkleys,the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year award and the Harry Gordon prize as the Australian Sports Journalist of the Year. She has won multiple AFL media awards including the prestigious Alf Brown trophy. She was the first woman to be inducted into the MCG Media Hall of Fame and was honoured by the Australian Sports Commission with a lifetime achievement award.
"Caro is undoubtedly one of the top reporters in Australia,"saidThe Age's editor Alex Lavelle.