We Used to be Journos

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 Jul 9, 2025
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We used to be journalists, but now we mostly just bitch about them. (Kidding. Kind of.) We also break down broken news.

Episodes drop Wednesday and Saturday.

Hosted by long-suffering journalists and even longer-suffering friends Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, We Used to Be Journos pulls apart the week in media from people who know exactly how the machine runs because they worked inside it for decades.

Every Wednesday, the pair sift through the headlines you saw and the forces you did not. Expect blunt media analysis, zooming in on dodgy editorial calls, anonymous sources doing gymnastics, and the occasional whiff of bigotry dressed up as balance. Consider it a guided tour of the newsroom sausage factory so you know what ended up on your plate.

On Saturdays, the spin-off segment Only Jan hands the microphone to Walkley Award winner Jan Fran. One issue, one sharp monologue, foresincally researched, tightly argued, and, inconveniently for the powerful, quite funny.


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Episode Date
Socceroos coverage misses mark, US-Iran ceasefire spin + online hate: are we the problem?
Jun 16, 2026
ONLY FRAN: Think NDIS is wasting taxpayer dollars? Meet AUKUS
Jun 12, 2026
BONUS: Jayson Gillham on his Federal Court trial against Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jun 10, 2026
Pickering vs ABC code of conduct, Pauline’s free PR, influencer spills on MAGA media strategy
Jun 09, 2026
ONLY FRAN: Living beautifully in a collapsing world x Sarah Wilson
Jun 05, 2026
Pauline’s poll for PM, mysterious media silence over young woman’s death + radio boss gropes woman
Jun 02, 2026
ONLY FRAN: Forget a new Teal party, where are the Greens?
May 29, 2026
Flotilla activist abuse coverage, BTS at Sydney Writers Festival + is James the 'good Murdoch'?
May 26, 2026
ONLY FRAN: Pauline Hanson’s gas grift (plus her other grifts too)
May 22, 2026
Ash Sarkar on how to scale independent media and have real impact
May 19, 2026
Responding to the comments section
May 12, 2026
ONLY FRAN: Influencers v journalists: same same but different this budget lock up
May 08, 2026
Women Who Win and how the media shapes their legacy
May 05, 2026
ONLY FRAN: Why I trust Tucker Carlson even less after his Trump apology
May 01, 2026
Trump shooting conspiracies, Tele lashes anti-war Gen Z, media quiet as Aboriginal women cop it
Apr 28, 2026
ONLY FRAN: "Gaza war drove Bondi shooter to terror"
Apr 24, 2026
Seven’s renewables hit job, Iran’s AI Lego war spin + Roberts-Smith 'breaks silence'
Apr 21, 2026
ONLY FRAN: WTF is Angus Taylor's immigration policy really about?
Apr 17, 2026
BONUS: The Murdoch media’s campaign against Dr Randa Abdel- Fattah
Apr 15, 2026
Albanese can’t say ‘Lebanese’, Hasan Piker drama + whistleblower David McBride’s missing media moment
Apr 14, 2026
ONLY FRAN: Penny Wong is 'deeply concerned'
Apr 10, 2026
Lakemba NDIS lie, media’s gambling ad addiction, Trump’s unhinged… again
Apr 07, 2026
ONLY FRAN: One month into QLD’s hate speech laws
Apr 03, 2026
Israeli ambassador’s press club propaganda, Atlas Network’s climate campaign + Kyle in court
Mar 31, 2026
ONLY FRAN: A quick note
Mar 27, 2026
Media aids One Nation’s grift, ABC staff strike, Rupert Murdoch pushes for Iran attack
Mar 24, 2026
ONLY FRAN : Jan Fran gets personal about Lebanon
Mar 20, 2026
Lebanese suffering ignored, Theroux’s ‘manosphere’ doco + is Netanyahu dead?
Mar 17, 2026
ONLY FRAN: The hypocrisy of Tony Burke on Iranian visas
Mar 13, 2026
ABC’s post-Bondi panel show, #QuitGPT movement + Pornhub access denied
Mar 10, 2026
ONLY FRAN: What happened to Anthony Albanese?
Mar 06, 2026
Media parrots US Iran propaganda, ABC chair gets profiled + billionaire buys Warner Bros (and CNN)
Mar 03, 2026
BBC’s baffling BAFTA censorship, Trump’s alien files + Jacinta Allan vs a journalist
Feb 24, 2026
Attacks on Francesca Albanese and Grace Tame, Liberal leader’s immigration lines + media forces sexual assault survivor to go public
Feb 17, 2026
Coverage of Herzog visit and protests, radio’s Bad Bunny racism + Karl Stefanovic hosts One Nation TWICE!
Feb 10, 2026
Insider's look at the past two decades of Aussie media
Feb 03, 2026
Hate speech laws red flags, Australia Day poll tricks, Grok deepfakes + Beckham feud
Jan 27, 2026
Narrative war over Iran's protests + Trump’s press sec blows up at journalist, InDaily SA muscles in on Murdoch
Jan 20, 2026
Randa Abdel-Fattah on the collapse of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival
Jan 13, 2026
Ask Us Anything: Our younger selves, future of media, Eurovision pressure, truth v hope
Jan 06, 2026
Ask Us Anything: On cracks in our friendship, building community and finding joy in dark times
Dec 30, 2025
Antony Loewenstein unpacks the Bondi terror attack
Dec 23, 2025
How the Bondi terror attack was reported
Dec 16, 2025
Press piles on Abbie Chatfield, SBS’s Eurovision dud decision + why we can’t name a rapist
Dec 09, 2025
TikTok’s racism row, Trump’s new press hit list + Gaza media petition anniversary
Dec 02, 2025
Nuzzi Lizza sex-scandal explained, Tele’s ‘Undercover Jew’ sting escalates + Mariah caught in X’s location mess
Nov 25, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: fake mosque story exposed, ChatGPT leak in print + WTF is really happening with shadowbans
Nov 18, 2025
BBC’s ‘bias’ blow-up, John Laws’ lasting legacy, unhinged Mamdani takes + Italian journalist fired over Gaza question
Nov 11, 2025
Mamdani AI attack ads, Coalition’s net zero backflip, Sudan finally gets airtime
Nov 04, 2025
BONUS: Omar El Akkad x Lattouf on ways to resist without a ‘How To Oppose A Genocide’ blueprint
Oct 30, 2025
Ita’s reputation rehab tour, Melbourne’s machete “epidemic” + Labor v AI
Oct 28, 2025
BONUS: Chris Hedges x Lattouf: Late Night Live, Press Club fiasco + Western media’s Gaza betrayal
Oct 23, 2025
What ‘Ceasefire’? + Rudd’s manufactured media moment, commentary v journalism, US journos on the move
Oct 21, 2025
THE SCOOP: PM’s phone number published in AI leak + the worst Gaza 'peace' takes
Oct 14, 2025
Inside Press Club mess, Trump deports journalist + Israel’s influencer army
Oct 07, 2025
Why are you agreeing with Candace Owens? Media inflates cop costs + AI slop for podcasts
Sep 30, 2025
Kimmel gets Lattoufed, SBS’s tunnelvision on Eurovision + getting real about independent media
Sep 23, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: A lifeline for Meanjin, Kirk’s killing media mayhem + buried Islamophobia report
Sep 16, 2025
Meet the BBC journalist who quit over Gaza coverage
Sep 09, 2025
Neo-Nazi march minimised, Lebs on Bob Katter + news influencers echo old media habits
Sep 02, 2025
ABC’s social media gag order, Sky News’ war criminal chit-chat + Gina Rinehart’s net zero ideology spruiked
Aug 26, 2025
Bendigo's big backfire, Woodside fishy ties with Seven West + surviving news fatigue
Aug 19, 2025
Media parrots Israel after killing of journalists, how tabloids selectively lobby governments + satire with bite
Aug 12, 2025
Historic bridge march leaves media scrambling, Logies cloning + a Stellar screw up
Aug 05, 2025
Media wakes up to starved kids in Gaza…or does it? + Nelk Boys Netanyahu bromance
Jul 29, 2025
Have we really stopped being journalists? A terrible TV “debate” + Gaza social media v MSM coverage.
Jul 22, 2025
An envoy influencing media, coverage of PM in China + a dig from The Australian
Jul 15, 2025
The Age’s framing of Melbourne synagogue attack + What is an ‘activist journalist’?
Jul 08, 2025
Lattouf speaks out on ABC win, the fight and the fallout.
Jul 01, 2025
Trailer
Jun 30, 2025