Some exciting news from Jan Fran and I. We launched our independent media company Ette Media less than five months ago and we're taking our show on the road baby!
Ette Live: It's A No From Me.

More information on the AI data scraping that lead to a massive privacy breech - including the Prime Minister's personal number (and mine!) Plus we reveal text messages Albanese and Scott Morrison received with warnings about the U.S website

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It was hard to miss the story about the what Melbourne CBD's anti-genocide protests allegedly costs in police resources.

We look into who 'broke' that story, where that figure came from, the timing of the release of such a figure and how outlets like the ABC ran with it with little interrogation

The fallout from Jimmy Kimmel's axing has reached Australia and its ABC.

Listen to We Used To Be Journos LIVE in Melbourne wherever you get your podcasts or watch in full on YouTube

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The math ain't mathing. We can reveal worrying details about the closure of Meanjin - one of Australia's longest running literary journals.

It starts with G ...

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What does responsible reporting of the far right look and sound like?

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Different country, different newsroom, same issues.

Jan Fran and Karishma Patel on We Used To Be Journos podcast

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The Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah at the centre of the censorship and pro-Israel lobbying controversy that devastated the Bendigo Writers Festival gets her opinion piece pulled by The Age at the last minute …why?

We put that question to The Age and are yet to hear back.

Instead of honouring our brave Palestinian journalist colleagues including Al Jazeera’s Anas Al-Sharif killed in Gaza, much of the media repeated - nay led - with the Israeli line that they were “terrorists” despite a complete lack of evidence.  

We pull apart this tired narrative

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