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Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson Haigh (born 29 December 1965) is an English-born Australian journalist, who writes about sport (especially cricket) and business. He was born in London, raised in Geelong and currently lives in Melbourne.〔(Haigh's official website. )〕 == Career == Haigh began his career as a journalist, writing on business for ''The Age'' newspaper from 1984 to 1992 and for ''The Australian'' from 1993 to 1995. He has since contributed to over 70 newspapers and magazines,〔("Biography" on Haigh's official website. )〕 both on business topics and on sport, mostly cricket. He wrote regularly for ''The Guardian'' during the 2006-07 Ashes series and has featured also in ''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''. His biographies are ''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'';〔Quoted in Haigh 2004, p. i.〕 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 dilates the James Hardie asbestos controversy) and ''Bad Company'', an examination of the CEO phenomenon. He mostly publishes with Aurum Press. Haigh was appointed editor of the ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia'' for 1999–2000 and 2000–01. Since March 2006, he has been a regular panellist on the ABC television sports panel show ''Offsiders''. He was also a regular co-host on ''The Conversation Hour'' with Jon Faine on 774 ABC Melbourne until near the end of 2006. Haigh has been known to be critical of what he regards as the deification of Sir Donald Bradman and "the cynical exploitation of his name by the mediocre and the greedy".〔Easom, p. 184.〕 He did so in a September 1998 article in ''Wisden Cricket Monthly'' entitled "Sir Donald Brandname". 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".〔 Haigh won the John Curtin Prize for Journalism in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in 2006〔(Winner 2006: John Curtin Prize for Journalism, State Library of Victoria )〕 for his essay "Information Idol: How Google is making us stupid",〔("Information Idol: How Google is making us stupid", ''The Monthly'', February 2006 )〕 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''.〔"(The Ashes Test Series 2009 )."〕 Haigh addressed the tenth Bradman Oration in Melbourne on 24 October 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gideon Haigh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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