James Edward Dibble AM MBE (4 February 1923 – 13 December 2010) was an Australian television presenter, at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC), where he was the inaugural presenter of the news bulletin ABC News Sydney, a role he held for 27 years, from Monday, 5 November 1956 until his retirement on Friday, 10 June 1983.

[3] Dibble was best known as the senior newsreader for ABC-TV, beginning with the first televised news bulletin on ABN-2 Sydney on 5 November 1956.

He reported the biggest news stories of the period, including the Soviet intervention in the Hungarian Revolution (in his very first bulletin; the events in Hungary caused the scheduled commencement of the ABC-TV news service to be brought forward), the assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963), the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt (1967), the Apollo 11 Moon landing (1969), the destruction of Darwin by Cyclone Tracy (1974), and the dismissal of the Whitlam government (1975).

[2] He appeared as himself in episodes of the ABC-TV comedy series Our Man In Canberra and Our Man In The Company episodes, narrated segments of the radiophonic works 'What's Rangoon To You Is Grafton To Me'(1978) [4] and 'Hot Bananas', written by Russell Guy and originally broadcast on radio station 2JJ (Double Jay).

He served in the Pacific with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II as a wireless telegraphist.