{"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":"Responding to the comments section","slug":"responding-to-the-comments-section","published_at":"2026-05-12T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133/responding-to-the-comments-section","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133","url":"https://shows.acast.com/we-used-to-be-journos/episodes/you-critiqued-our-media-critique-we-read-the-comments-and-re","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6858d0a2dc316de3df2aac5a/e/69f7fa90e11f5963abfd98f7/media.mp3","summary":"In this episode Jan and Antoinette respond directly to feedback from the Etterati. We answer questions about the language used to describe certain “regimes,” balance in journalism, why we talk about Gaza and whether we laugh too much about dark subject matters. Plus: what happens when journalists we’ve scrutinised reach out directly?  As a media platform built on critiquing journalism and power, we ask how should we handle criticism of our own work? This is a candid conversation about accountability, truth and what drives us to do the work we do. Support Ette Media by becoming a subscriber here. Antoinette’s book Women Who Win is here.  If you want to see our mugs as we yap you can watch the episode in full here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"In this episode Jan and Antoinette respond directly to feedback from the Etterati. We answer questions about the language used to describe certain “regime…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2267,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/we-used-to-be-journos-7394133/episodes/responding-to-the-comments-section/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/responding-to-the-comments-section.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}