About

Abbir Dib is a multimedia journalist, video host-producer, and writer.

 

With experience in some of the country’s leading newsrooms, including the ABC, The Age, and 9News, she specialises in digital storytelling across vertical video, breaking news, TV production, feature writing, and memoir pieces exploring identity and internet culture.

 

Currently a global news producer for The Telegraph, she coordinates breaking news coverage and curates high-traffic homepage and app real estate. ​

 

Previously 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 vertical video. At The Age, she hosted fast-paced explainers and wrote digital reports, growing the masthead's social platforms exponentially.

 

Her background also includes producing for 9News’ live television bulletins and chasing breaking local stories. ​ Abbir’s writing has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Refinery29, SBS Voices, and Shameless Media. She has also appeared as a panelist on SBS Insight and as a guest on ABC Radio. ​ In 2025, she was Highly Commended at the Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards for Multicultural Affairs Reporting.

 

She was also nominated for the MPC Student Journalist of the Year in 2020 for her SBS Dateline feature on Lebanon’s economic collapse. Abbir holds a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) with Distinction from RMIT University, where she was awarded a Media Diversity Australia scholarship.