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Gregory Martin Baum (born 14 December 1959) is an Australian sports journalist.
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Gregory Martin Baum (born 14 December 1959) is an Australian sports journalist.
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Baum was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the first of six children to Martin and Joan Baum. He attended Boronia State Primary school, then St Josephs Primary School Boronia. He then attended St Joseph's Regional College, Ferntree Gully, graduating in 1976. He enrolled in the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) journalism course and began work as a cadet with Leader Newspapers on the local paper, the Knox-Sherbrooke News, in 1977.
After a number of his articles on the local football competition were republished in The Sun , a major newspaper in Melbourne, Baum was offered a job by that newspaper, becoming a sub-editor at the age of 20. He ultimately became a full-time sportswriter for the paper, including ghosting a column for former footballer Lou Richards.
In May 1989 he was offered a job by Fairfax Publications at The Age , the Sun's main rival. Baum has continued to write for The Age, where he is a Senior Sports Writer, [1] and an Associate Editor as well as writing for The Guardian of London. He also edited the last Australian edition of Wisden . He has travelled to many countries including America, Canada, India, Pakistan Italy, Germany, Brazil, South Africa and England covering Olympics, soccer and cricket. He has received a number of awards for his work, from the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust, the Victorian Boxing Association and the Australian Press Association. He also received a 2008 Walkley Award in the "Commentary, analysis, opinion, and critique" category. He is the author of several books on sporting personalities including Paul Reiffel and Steve Waugh, and was the ghost writer of Dangerous Days, an account of the wartime adventures of Private Laurie Brough. He has three children and lives in Melbourne. [2]
The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald.
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