Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson Haigh was born on 29 December 1965 and is an English-born Australian journalist and non-fiction author who writes about sport, business and crime in Australia.
16 Facts About Gideon Haigh
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Gideon Haigh was born in London, was raised in Geelong, and lives in Melbourne.
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Gideon Haigh has since contributed to over 70 newspapers and magazines, both on business topics and on sport, mostly cricket.
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Gideon Haigh is the senior cricket writer for The Australian.
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Gideon Haigh has published several books on business-related topics, such as The Battle for BHP, Asbestos House and Bad Company, an examination of the CEO phenomenon.
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Gideon Haigh has won the annual Jack Pollard Trophy for the best Australian cricket book six times.
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Gideon Haigh was a regular co-host on The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine on 774 ABC Melbourne until near the end of 2006.
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Gideon Haigh did so in a September 1998 article in Wisden Cricket Monthly entitled "Sir Donald Brandname".
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Gideon Haigh has been critical of Bradman's biographer Roland Perry, writing in The Australian that Perry's biography was guilty of "glossing over or ignoring anything to Bradman's discredit".
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Gideon 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.
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Gideon Haigh 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.
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Gideon Haigh 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.
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Gideon Haigh blogged on the 2009 Ashes series for The Wisden Cricketer.
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Gideon Haigh addressed the tenth Bradman Oration in Melbourne on 24 October 2012.
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Gideon Haigh delivered the inaugural Jack Marsh History Lecture in 2015 at the Sydney Cricket Ground on "How Victor Trumper Changed Cricket Forever".
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Gideon Haigh stated that he would not write for The Monthly after Warhaft's controversial departure.