Fauziah Ibrahim is a
Singaporean Australian
Singaporean Australians ( zh, 新加坡裔澳大利亞人) are Australians of Singaporean descent. As Singapore is a multi-racial country, a Singaporean Australian could either be of Chinese, Malay or Indian descent, the main races of Singapore ...
news presenter.
Career
Ibrahim started her career as a producer and presenter at ''6AM RadioWest'', then as a reporter for the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation in
Perth. She later worked as a producer and presenter for
NewsRadio 93.8 in
Singapore and as anchor, producer and reporter for ''
Channel i News''.
She also was a producer for
BBC's ''Asia Business Report and'' anchor for
CNBC Asia
CNBC Asia is a pay television business channel based in Singapore. A subsidiary of NBCUniversal, it is the Asian service of CNBC (Consumer News and Business Channel). Its programmes originate from Singapore. It was officially opening ceremony at ...
's ''World News''.
Ibrahim was with Al Jazeera English from 2008 and was an anchor at the channel's main broadcast centre, in
Doha in
Qatar, where she was a presenter on the flagship programme Newshour. Previously, she was the host of the station's
Asia-focused current affairs program
101 East
''101 East'' is a multi award-winning weekly television programme, broadcast by Al Jazeera English, that produces in-depth investigative documentaries from across Asia and the Pacific. The show launched in 2006 and operates out of Al Jazeera's Asia ...
, where she was nominated for an
Asian Television Award for Best Current Affairs Presenter in 2011.
In 2016, Ibrahim joined Australia's
ABC News network as a news presenter and in January 2020 was appointed co-host of ''Weekend Breakfast'' replacing
Josh Szeps.
Ibrahim was criticised in April 2022 for compiling
Twitter lists labelling
Australian Labor Party supporters as “
lobotomised shitheads”. She subsequently took a temporary break from on-camera duties.
References
External links
Official site of ''101 East''at Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera people
Living people
Singaporean people of Malay descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Singaporean expatriates in Australia
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