About

Abbir Dib is a journalist, video host-producer and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. With over five years’ experience in some of the country’s leading newsrooms including the ABC, The Age and 9News, she specialises in digital storytelling across vertical video, news articles, TV news production, feature writing and memoir pieces that explore identity and internet culture.

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Currently at The Telegraph UK, she produces and reports breaking news stories and curates the homepage. 

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At the ABC, Abbir led social and video strategy for the Arts, Culture and Entertainment team, where she developed original series profiling artists and pop culture figures through narrative-driven reels. At The Age she hosted videos and wrote digital reports, growing its social media platforms exponentially. At 9News she produced for a live bulletin and chased news stories.

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Abbir’s writing has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Refinery29, SBS Voices and Shameless Media. She has appeared on SBS Insight as a panellist, and ABC Radio as a guest. 

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In 2025 she was highly commended at the Melbourne Press Club Quill Award for Multicultural Affairs and Media. She was also nominated for the MPC Student Journalist of the Year in 2020 for her SBS Dateline story on Lebanon’s economic collapse. She holds a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) from RMIT University with distinction, and received a Media Diversity Australia scholarship in her final year.