We Used to be Journos
Hosted by Jan Fran and Antoinette and Jan · Ette Media
5.0from 972 ratings
- 114
- Episodes
- 95
- Transcribed
- 972
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 95K
- YouTube views
About We Used to be Journos
We used to be journalists, but now we mostly just bitch about them. (Kidding. Kind of.) Hosted by long-suffering journalists and even longer-suffering friends Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, this podcast also break down broken news. Episodes drop Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. MONDAYS: They Used To Be... Antoinette Lattouf interviews a range of people who used to do or be something that defined them, shaping how they saw the world, and how the world saw them. But now that they no longer hold this position, what can they see (and say!?) . WEDNESDAYS: We Used to Be Journos is the flagship show where Jan and Antoinette pull apart the week in media from people who know exactly how the machine runs because they worked inside it for decades. Consider it a guided media literacy tour of the newsroom sausage factory so you know what ended up on your plate. SATURDAYS: Only Fran hands the microphone to Walkley Award winner Jan Fran. One issue, one sharp monologue forensically researched, tightly argued, and - inconveniently for the powerful - quite funny. Senior Producer: Alyssa Partington Shooter/Editor: Lachlan French Send us your feedback tips@ettemedia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Ette Media
- Category
- news · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Jun 2025
- Latest episode
- 6 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
95 of 114 episodes have a transcript.
6 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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1 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Inside a recent episode
ONLY FRAN: Habibi Century is here...maybe
Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So the first wave, they would have come out in the early 1900s, right, They're not just educated and articulate and moneyed, but the system is legible to them in a way that it simply was not to their parents and to their grandparents. So the access is there. And then this leads to number three, which is cultural impact. […]
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- Cathy Wilcox
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- YouTube views
- 94,609
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 967 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100
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- 18
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 32
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