We Used to be Journos
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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Thanks to @jaidanielpyne for composing the music for our podcast.
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Latest Episode
Previous Episodes
- Ask Us Anything: Our younger selves, future of media, Eurovision pressure, truth v hope
- Ask Us Anything: On cracks in our friendship, building community and finding joy in dark times
- Antony Loewenstein unpacks the Bondi terror attack
- How the Bondi terror attack was reported
- Press piles on Abbie Chatfield, SBS’s Eurovision dud decision + why we can’t name a rapist
- TikTok’s racism row, Trump’s new press hit list + Gaza media petition anniversary
- Nuzzi Lizza sex-scandal explained, Tele’s ‘Undercover Jew’ sting escalates + Mariah caught in X’s location mess
- EXCLUSIVE: fake mosque story exposed, ChatGPT leak in print + WTF is really happening with shadowbans
- BBC’s ‘bias’ blow-up, John Laws’ lasting legacy, unhinged Mamdani takes + Italian journalist fired over Gaza question
- Mamdani AI attack ads, Coalition’s net zero backflip, Sudan finally gets airtime
- BONUS: Omar El Akkad x Lattouf on ways to resist without a ‘How To Oppose A Genocide’ blueprint
- Ita’s reputation rehab tour, Melbourne’s machete “epidemic” + Labor v AI
- BONUS: Chris Hedges x Lattouf: Late Night Live, Press Club fiasco + Western media’s Gaza betrayal
- What ‘Ceasefire’? + Rudd’s manufactured media moment, commentary v journalism, US journos on the move
- THE SCOOP: PM’s phone number published in AI leak + the worst Gaza 'peace' takes
- Inside Press Club mess, Trump deports journalist + Israel’s influencer army
- Why are you agreeing with Candace Owens? Media inflates cop costs + AI slop for podcasts
- Kimmel gets Lattoufed, SBS’s tunnelvision on Eurovision + getting real about independent media
- EXCLUSIVE: A lifeline for Meanjin, Kirk’s killing media mayhem + buried Islamophobia report
- Meet the BBC journalist who quit over Gaza coverage
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