Caroline Baum is an Australian journalist and radio and television broadcaster.
Background
Born in London on 27 November 1958 to migrant parents, (Baum"s father was born in Austria, her mother in France), Baum attended secondary school at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, and studied Philosophy and Politics at the University of New York
Career
She was the founding editor of Good Reading magazine. On graduating, Baum worked as a writer and researcher for Time-Life Books on a 29-volume series of cook books called The Good Cook, before moving to the British Broadcasting Corporation, where she worked with Michael Parkinson and later worked for London Weekend Television on The South Bank Show. Baum was the founding editor of Good Reading magazine and worked as Features Editor for the Australian edition of Vogue magazine and was also been the long-term presenter of the ABCTV book program Between the Lincolnshire until the program ended in 1998 and worked as an executive producer with American Broadcasting Company Radio National.
In 1995, Baum took leave from the American Broadcasting Company, working as a researcher / producer on The World on a Plate, a history of food around the world and in 2006, produced and co-wrote her first television documentary, about Australian writer Arthur Upfield, shown on Business School television Caroline is currently Editorial Director of Booktopia, Australia"s largest online bookseller as well as curating and hosting talks, blogging for arts organisations and providing media consultancy.
She has also designed a collection of rugs based on her photographic images for Designer Rugs. Her husband David Roach is a screenwriter and producer whose credits include Young Einstein, Beneath Hill 60 and Red Obsession.
They live on the south coast of NSW.