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We Used to be Journos

We Used to be Journos

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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.


This weekly podcast brings you honest and original media analysis from two insiders who’ve broken plenty of news and been broken by it, too. Hosted by long-suffering journalists and even longer-suffering friends, Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, We Used to Be Journos is your guide to the way the media works.


Join us every Wednesday as we unpack the headlines you see, and the power you don’t. We’ll take you through the week’s sketchy editorial decisions, suspect sources and thinly veiled bigotry. We’ll show you how the media sausage is made —so you know what you’re being fed.


Armed with a low tolerance for spin, zero patience for BS, and just enough humour (and delusion) to keep working in the media, We Used to Be Journos serves up hot, sharp, unapologetic media tea.


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If you want to see our mugs as we yap you can watch the episode in full here.


Thanks to @jaidanielpyne for composing the music for our podcast.

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Episodes
  • Insider's look at the past two decades of Aussie media

    Insider's look at the past two decades of Aussie media
    Feb 3 2026

    In this episode, the current state of Australian media is examined through Jan Fran and Antoinette’s decades long journeys in the industry.


    They talk about how they broke into journalism, caught the tail end of television’s heyday, watched social media splinter audiences, and now brace for what AI is about to do to journalism and truth. They also maintain a decades-long grudge against their less-than-encouraging high school careers advisers.


    In the end they land somewhere cautiously optimistic: independent media is growing and audiences want better.


    Tickets to our final Canberra live show can be bought here.


    Support Ette Media by becoming a subscriber here.

    If you want to see our mugs as we yap you can watch the episode in full here.

    Thanks to @jaidanielpyne for composing the music for our podcast.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    50 mins
  • Hate speech laws red flags, Australia Day poll tricks, Grok deepfakes + Beckham feud

    Hate speech laws red flags, Australia Day poll tricks, Grok deepfakes + Beckham feud
    Jan 27 2026

    In this episode, we look at the many red flags surrounding Labor’s new hate speech laws as well as the mainstream media’s strikingly uniform response to them.


    Jan provides an update on the sale of TikTok. Americans can stop worrying about China controlling their data and algorithms because a small group of pro-Trump billionaires has that covered now. Antoinette breaks down Australia Day polls and offers a toolkit for spotting agendas in the opaque polling world.


    There’s also a shout out to the women taking on pornographic deepfakes made by X’s Grok, plus an illuminating piece on the Beckham family feud, which Jan has a strange and (and unverified) theory about


    Tickets to our final Canberra live show can be bought here.

    Support Ette Media by becoming a subscriber here.

    If you want to see our mugs as we yap you can watch the episode in full here.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr
  • Narrative war over Iran's protests + Trump’s press sec blows up at journalist, InDaily SA muscles in on Murdoch

    Narrative war over Iran's protests + Trump’s press sec blows up at journalist, InDaily SA muscles in on Murdoch
    Jan 20 2026

    In this episode Jan and Antoinette look at the fight to control the narrative over protests in Iran where the death toll has exceeded 3000.

    With an internet block out, state media tightly controlled, foreign actors bragging about armed interference, and exiled figures presenting themselves as the solution, protestors and their plight largely disappear from the story - by design.

    Meanwhile, Trump’s press secretary snaps at another reporter - this time to dodge a basic question about the shooting of an unarmed mother by an ICE agent.

    There’s also a shout out to some responsible reporting on neo-Nazi material and a peak at the growing influence of InDaily SA, the newspaper muscling in on Murdoch's territory in Adelaide.


    TIPS FROM ANTOINETTE ON IRANIAN WOMEN TO FOLLOW:

    Tara Kangarlou Iranian journalist, author and NGO founder

    Gissou Nia Iraninan human rights lawyer

    Samira Mohyeddin Iranian journalist and academic


    • LIVE SHOW TICKETS in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Canberra tickets are here.
    • Support Ette Media by becoming a subscriber here.
    • If you want to see our mugs as we yap you can watch the episode in full here.

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    56 mins
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