Avani Dias

Avani Dias
Born (1991-11-15) 15 November 1991 (age 33)
Wattle Grove, New South Wales, Australia
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • radio presenter
Years active2015–present
Known forHosting Hack on Triple J

Avani Dias (born 15 November 1991) is an Australian journalist and radio presenter. She was the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)'s international foreign correspondent for South Asia, based in New Delhi until April 2024.[1] She will join Four Corners as a reporter after returning to Australia. Dias presented the current affairs program Hack on youth radio station Triple J from 2020 to 2021, after succeeding Tom Tilley at the end of 2019.[2][3]

Raised in South Western Sydney,[4] Dias completed her tertiary education at the University of Sydney, where she wrote for the student newspaper Honi Soit.[5] In her early career, she worked at independent radio station FBi Radio and the online newspaper The New Daily whilst also working as a production assistant at the ABC.[4] Dias received a cadetship at ABC News in 2015, becoming a video-journalist and later anchoring the Darwin 7PM News bulletin.[4][6]

Dias has won and been nominated for various journalistic awards, including Public Interest Award at the New South Wales Premier's Multicultural Communications Awards in 2019.

  1. ^ Connery, Tess (16 December 2021). "Why Avani Dias is leaving Hack and packing her bags for New Delhi". Mediaweek. Archived from the original on 16 December 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  2. ^ Lopez, Jonas (26 November 2021). "Dias set for ABC run". Influencing. Archived from the original on 26 November 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. ^ Langford, Jackson (28 November 2021). "Triple j's Avani Dias and Nat Tencic to depart the station next month". The Music Network. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Joey Watson (28 November 2019). "Avani Dias Interview". Out of The Box (Podcast). FBi Radio. Event occurs at 0:50. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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