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Spin Cycle: Jan Fran On Decoding The News and Australian Mainstream Media

Journalist, presenter, social commentator and co-founder of independent Australian Media Company ETTE Media, Jan Fran joins Spin Cycle to discuss her frustrations with Australian mainstream media outlets and their failure to accurately and unbiasedly report on current issues including the war in the Middle East, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing on southern Lebanon.

Independent Australian media company ETTE Media, co-founded by award-winning journalists Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, is focused on media literacy and critique aims to provide audiences with the “tools to question, decode and challenge the noise in a time when misinformation is rife, algorithms distort reality and trust in mainstream media has never been lower.”

Jan unpacks the growing community in the independent media space and the journalists that take risks to provide coverage of events that mainstream media ignores.

You can keep up with Jan Fran in her weekly podcast We Used To Be Journos with Antoinette Lattouf and solo podcast Jan Fran Has Issues.

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Listen to Spin Cycle: Jan Fran On Decoding The News and Australian Mainstream Media25:1826 March 2026