Greg Baum

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Gregory Martin Baum, born 14 December 1959 in Melbourne, is a former Australian sports journalist. He was the eldest of six children and grew up in Victoria, attending local primary schools and St Joseph's Regional College, Ferntree Gully, before finishing school in 1976. He studied journalism at RMIT and started as a cadet with Leader Newspapers in 1977. After his local football stories were picked up by The Sun, he joined The Sun as a sub-editor at 20 and later became a full-time sportswriter, even ghosting a column for Lou Richards.

In May 1989 he moved to Fairfax Publications to work for The Age, where he stayed until retiring in January 2025. Baum was a Senior Sports Writer and Associate Editor, and he also wrote for The Guardian in London. He edited the last Australian edition of Wisden. He covered many events around the world, including the Olympics, soccer and cricket, and won several awards, including a 2008 Walkley Award for commentary, analysis, and critique. He wrote books about Paul Reiffel and Steve Waugh and was the ghost writer of Dangerous Days, about Private Laurie Brough. He has three children and three grandchildren and lives in Skene's Creek and Melbourne.