Digital News Reports
Client: The Age, SBS Dateline, Refinery29, Fashion Journal | 2020-2025 | Digital storytelling
Abbir Dib is an experienced digital journalist skilled in conducting compelling interviews with local and international talent. She has reported across breaking news, lifestyle, and features using various CMS platforms in fast-paced newsroom environments. Her digital reporting includes clean, SEO-friendly copy, strong news judgment, and multimedia packages designed for mobile-first audiences.
SBS Dateline
Lebanon on the brink: Starvation looms amid economic collapse
Lebanon has long been relished as a cauldron of raucous nightlife, delicious cuisine and incredible patriotism. But now, the currency is plummeting, food prices are skyrocketing and people staring into empty fridges. Lebanon is facing a humanitarian crisis, leaving many on the edge of starvation.
Nominated for a Melbourne Press Club Quill award
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
Lebanon already had a problem with food shortages. Now, its largest grain silo has been destroyed
Over the past year, Lebanese people could barely afford bread. Now the country is reeling from a colossal explosion on Beirut’s northern coast and is facing yet another food insecurity blow. How will Lebanon feed a nation of over six million people after the destruction of its biggest port?
ABC
Africa Fashion at the National Gallery of Victoria tells the story of African fashion through political history
The Age
‘I hid a message in plain sight’: The story behind the transport poster that went viral
A graphic design student made a fare evasion poster to look like a Public Transport Victoria sign. Then she got an email from the police.
This piece was also transformed into a TikTok and Instagram carousel. It was one of the highest performing pieces that month.
Fashion Journal
Why am I being charged extra for my curly hair cut?
After Work Drinks
Help wanted: Why psychology needs more diversity
A lack of diversity in the psychology workforce is affecting the way mental health treatment is being delivered to the communities who need the most specialised support. The Australian Psychology industry might be doing more harm than good for racial and cultural minorities.
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
It’s every Swiftie’s dream: to be the one chosen to come to the stage and receive Taylor Swift’s fedora hat. For nine-year-old Keilor Park girl Milana Bruno, it came true at the MCG. This had an accompanying vertical video which went viral, ideated, produced and edited by Abbir.
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
The company’s founder was dismayed by the criticism, saying he only wanted to protect tenants’ data more effectively.
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
There’s nothing authentic about dating shows, so why do we subscribe to the idea that the participants will find ‘true love’?
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
Drama, narcissism and love triangles are all the ingredients you need for delectable reality TV. They’re served up on a silver platter in Netflix’s The Ultimatum.
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
Scott Morrison said the government’s push to remove the tennis star from the country had been made “on health, safety and good order grounds”.