Just a friendly reminder that Channel 7's Sunrise helped resurrect Pauline Hanson's career. In 2016, Hanson was paid to appear on Sunrise at least 16 times. She then successfully re-entered politics in the federal election that year, resurrecting the One Nation party. Thanks Kochie and Sam!

Why did The Australian use an image of Imane Khelif, a cis woman of colour, in a transphobic headline about banning trans women in sport? Imane was assigned female at birth and identifies as a woman. Paired with the use of the word "men", this headline is irresponsible, misleading and offensive.

Egyptian-Canadian journalist Omar El-Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This, on the refusal to give up hope.

Listen to his raw conversation with @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social here: tinyurl.com/45d98p2h

Who at the ABC wrote, then approved, the words "ceasefire will hold" over an image of Palestinian bodies? Also, how much deference should the media give to Trump given his government continues to provide bombs to kill Palestinians?

In this bonus episode, Egyptian-Canadian journalist and author Omar El Akkad speaks to Antoinette Lattouf about navigating the dehumanising stereotype of the Angry Arab Man.

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Q: How did these explosives get there? Do these devices just grow in Gaza's soil? Or did a military put them there?

The ICJ has ruled that Israel's claims the UNRWA was infiltrated by Hamas were unfounded. To the publications that uncritically reproduced these lies and effectively laundered a genocide: when will you stop deferring to a state that has been proven to lie repeatedly?

Class, why is this headline centring the murdered woman's step count? What has that got to do with the fact that a man randomly stabbed her to death? Combatting the violence against women epidemic includes responsible media reporting.

Antoinette sits down with Chris Hedges to reflect on his career, *that* jaw dropping interview on Late Night Live and how western media has failed journalists on Gaza. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges and I have plenty to cover — his remarkable career, the betrayal of Palestinian journalists, the National Press Club fiasco, and *that* ABC Late Night Live interview.

We Used To Be Journos bonus episode drops Friday, 5am AEDT.

EXCLUSIVE: The personal mobile phone number of Time Minister Albanese, along with the numbers of high-profile Australians in media and business - has been published on a publicly accessible third-party website, in what appears to be a widespread privacy breach.

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Why is ABC centring so-called “safety fears”?

Royal Children’s Hospital mission is “a world where all children thrive” yet it cancelled an event with a Nobel Peace Prize winning group about children and war because of complaints it would be about Gaza.

Children in Gaza are the ones unsafe

Why the ABC’s independence being compromised had to be exposed.

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