{"podcast":{"title":"We Used to be Journos","slug":"we-used-to-be-journos-7394133","podcast_index_feed_id":7394133,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6858d0a2dc316de3df2aac5a","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/we-used-to-be-journos","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6858d0a2dc316de3df2aac5a/1751505615853-67cfacfc-636e-425d-b032-ec78908b1150.jpeg","author":"Ette Media","episode_count":83,"summary":"We used to be journalists, but now we mostly just bitch about them. (Kidding. Kind of.) We also break down broken news. Episodes drop Wednesday and Saturday. Hosted by long-suffering journalists and even longer-suffering friends Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, We Used to Be Journos pulls apart the week in media from people who know exactly how the machine runs because they worked inside it for decades. Every Wednesday, the pair sift through the headlines you saw and the forces you did not. Expect blunt media analysis, zooming in on dodgy editorial calls, anonymous sources doing gymnastics, and the occasional whiff of bigotry dressed up as balance. Consider it a guided tour of the newsroom sausage factory so you know what ended up on your plate. On Saturdays, the spin-off segment Only Jan hands the microphone to Walkley Award winner Jan Fran. One issue, one sharp monologue, foresincally researched, tightly argued, and, inconveniently for the powerful, quite funny. Support Ette Media by becoming a subscriber here . If you want to see our mugs as we yap you can watch the episode in full here. Thanks to @jaidanielpyne for composing the music for our podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acas…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T18:19:21.304938+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133"},"episode":{"title":"ONLY FRAN: Think NDIS is wasting taxpayer dollars? Meet AUKUS","slug":"only-fran-think-ndis-is-wasting-taxpayer-dollars-meet-aukus","published_at":"2026-06-12T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133/only-fran-think-ndis-is-wasting-taxpayer-dollars-meet-aukus","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133","url":"https://shows.acast.com/we-used-to-be-journos/episodes/only-fran-think-ndis-is-wasting-taxpayer-dollars-meet-aukus","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6858d0a2dc316de3df2aac5a/e/6a2b8eed3c1e63a4068048e6/media.mp3","summary":"This week Jan looks at the mammoth trilateral security pact known as AUKUS and asks how much are those submarines costing us again? Be warned, there’s not a clear answer to that question because even those in charge don't really know.  Let’s just say hundreds of billions of dollars for deliverables that just keep changing??   That’s a lot of tax payer dollars at stake - not to mention the billions of dollars we’ve already thrown away on quite literally nothing. You’d think that would incense the media as much as other government spending but not so.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"This week Jan looks at the mammoth trilateral security pact known as AUKUS and asks how much are those submarines costing us again? Be warned, there’s not…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1056,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133/episodes/only-fran-think-ndis-is-wasting-taxpayer-dollars-meet-aukus/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133/only-fran-think-ndis-is-wasting-taxpayer-dollars-meet-aukus.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}