Gideon Haigh

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gideon Haigh
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 29, 1965(1965-12-29)
Age	59
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Gideon Haigh Biography

Gideon Haigh is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 29, 1965 in London, England, United Kingdom. Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson Haigh (born 29 December 1965) is an English-born Australian journalist who writes about sports (especially cricket) as well as business. The journalist was raised in London was raised in Geelong and currently reside in Melbourne.

Haigh was named Editor of Wisden Cricketers’ almanack Australia in 1999-2000 and 2000-01. In March, he’s been a regular participant on the ABC TV sports show Offsiders. He also served as an ongoing co-host of The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine on 774 ABC Melbourne until near the close of the year.

Haigh won the John Curtin Prize for Journalism in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in 2006 for his essay “Information Idol: How Google is making us stupid”, which was published in The Monthly magazine. He asserted that the quality of discourse could suffer as a source of information’s worth is judged by Google according to its previous degree of exposure to the status quo. He believes the pool of information available to those using Google as their sole avenue of inquiry is inevitably limited and possibly compromised due to covert commercial influences.

Haigh blogged on the 2009 Ashes series for The Wisden Cricketer.

Haigh is recognized for his criticism of what he believes is the cult of Sir Donald Bradman and “the cynical exploitation of his name by the mediocre and the greedy”. He expressed this in an article published in September 1998 that appeared in Wisden Cricket Monthly entitled “Sir Donald Brandname”. Haigh has criticised the biography of Bradman’s biographer Roland Perry, writing in The Australian that Perry’s biography was at fault for “glossing over or ignoring anything to Bradman’s discredit”.

Gideon Haigh Net Worth

Gideon Haigh is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gideon Haigh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

While at the university, Haigh was a resident at Trinity College (University of Melbourne) from 1984. Haigh currently lives in Melbourne with her daughter Cecilia. Haigh’s co-author from 2002 until the year 2005 was Sally Warhaft, who edited The Monthly until April 2009. Haigh declared that Haigh would not continue to write for The Monthly after Warhaft’s controversial resignation.

Haigh began his journalistic career writing about business topics for The Age newspaper from 1984 until 1992 and then in The Australian from 1993 to 1995. Haigh has since written for more than 70 magazines and newspapers in both business-related topics and sports, with a focus on cricket. He was a regular writer on behalf of The Guardian during the 2006-07 Ashes series, and was featured as well on the pages of The Times and the Financial Times.

Haigh has authored 19 books and edited seven more. Of those on a cricketing theme, his historical works includes The Cricket War and Summer Game. He has writteb two biographies, The Big Ship (of Warwick Armstrong) and Mystery Spinner (of Jack Iverson); the latter was The Cricket Society’s “Book of the Year”, short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and dubbed “a classic” by The Sunday Times; anthologies of his writings Ashes 2005 and Game for Anything, as well as Many a Slip (the humorous diary of a club cricket season) and The Vincibles, his story of the South Yarra Cricket Club of which he is life member and perennate vice-president and for whose newsletter he has written about cricket the longest. He has also published several books on business-related topics, such as The Battle for BHP, Asbestos House (which details the James Hardie asbestos controversy) and Bad Company, an examination of the CEO phenomenon. He mostly publishes with Aurum Press. He has won the annual Jack Pollard Trophy for the best Australian cricket book six times.

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Facts & Trivia

Gideon Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Gideon Haigh celebrates birthday on December 29 of every year.

Top Facts about Gideon Haigh

1. Gideon Haigh is an Australian journalist and author.
2. He has written over 30 books on various topics.
3. Haigh has won multiple awards for his writing.
4. He is a regular contributor to The Australian newspaper.
5. Haigh has also written for The Guardian and ESPNcricinfo.
6. He specializes in sports journalism, particularly cricket.
7. Haigh’s book “The Summer Game” is considered a classic of cricket literature.
8. He was awarded the prestigious Jack Pollard Trophy in 2005.
9. Haigh is known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing style.
10. He has been described as one of Australia’s finest writers on sport.