Louis Shoobridge Sr. (2x great-grandfather) Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson Haigh (born 29 December 1965) is a British-born Australian journalist and non-fiction author who writes about sport (especially cricket), business and crime in Australia.
He was senior cricket writer for The Australian,[3] with his final column published at the conclusion of the 2023 Ashes series.
[7] Haigh won the John Curtin Prize for Journalism in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in 2006[8] for his essay "Information Idol: How Google is making us stupid",[9] 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.
[5] [12] Lalor and Haigh have reunited their partnership in a new independent podcast and Substack website called Cricket Et Al.[13] In March 2024, Haigh was flown to Israel by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), and wrote about his experiences there in an essay entitled "Highways to a war".