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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.)


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

The Age’s framing of Melbourne synagogue attack + What is an ‘activist journalist’?

In this episode, Jan unpacks The Age’s coverage of an anti-Semitic incident in Melbourne while Antoinette takes a look at a different genocide and the conspicuous absence of major coverage of the Yoorrook Justice Commission landmark findings. Plus, Jan and Antoinette pull apart the curious case of the “activist journalist” label—how it was framed, weaponised, and ultimately backfired as a centrepiece of the ABC’s defence. But the real question is, what has the media learnt from Lattouf v ABC? Su...

Jul 08, 202559 minEp. 2

Lattouf speaks out on ABC win, the fight and the fallout.

Antoinette Lattouf sued the ABC and won. In the very first episode of We Used To Be Journos, Antoinette joins Jan to unpack the legal showdown that not only exposed breathtaking incompetence at the broadcaster but also the hidden power and influence of lobby groups. Executives ducked accountability, lawyers flirted with racial erasure, and Lattouf's mental health history was dredged up before the country. And at the centre of it all? A protest at the Opera House that turned a journalist into a l...

Jul 01, 20251 hr 14 minEp. 1

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A taste of what's to come on We Used to be Journos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 30, 20251 min
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