Jan Fran

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Jan Fran
Born
Jeannette Francis [1]

1985 (age 38–39) [2]
Lebanon
NationalityAustralian
Education Mount Saint Joseph, Milperra, University of Technology Sydney
Known for The Feed
Spouse
Al Morrow
​
(m. 2015)​
Website janfran.net

Jeanette Francis (Arabic: جانيت فرانسيس), better known as Jan Fran, is a Lebanese-Australian journalist and presenter. She has worked with the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), and served as co-host of current affairs and satire TV program The Feed and the podcast The Few Who Do alongside Marc Fennell.

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Early life

Fran was born in Lebanon [3] to a Maronite Christian family. In 1989, she moved to Australia, [2] where she grew up in Bankstown in Sydney, New South Wales. [4] Fran studied journalism [2] and international studies at the University of Technology Sydney.

Career

Fran began her career as a foreign correspondent with SBS, working on Insight and Dateline . [5] For her series on women in post-war Uganda, she was nominated for a Young Walkley Award in 2012. She was a presenter on The Feed [2] [6] from the program’s launch in 2013 [7] until July 2019. [7] She has collaborated in various ways with co-presenter Marc Fennell.

As a presenter, Fran has hosted TV coverage of Tropfest, and has been a guest presenter on Network Ten’s The Project . [1] [6] In 2017, she was made an Australia Day Ambassador. [8] Fran also hosted the series Medicine or Myth? on SBS in 2019. [9]

Fran is an ambassador for Plan International Australia and has hosted a series of podcasts called Sexism and the City which Plan commissioned. [6] [10] She has also challenged the different ways in which the perpetrators of the Christchurch mosque shootings and the Orlando nightclub shooting were described and presented by the media. [11]

As of November 2019, she is writing a memoir, Of Middle Eastern Appearance, to be published by Hachette Australia. [12]

In 2021, Fran began hosting Question Everything with Wil Anderson on ABC. [13]

Personal life

In 2015, Fran married Al Morrow, an advertising director. [1]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Verghis, Sharon (27 July 2017). "'You have to see it to be it': Meet three women who are changing the face of Australian TV". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. ↑ "Jan Fran takes a DNA test: what did she discover?". The Feed.
  4. ↑ "Wilosophy Podcast with Jan Fran". 3 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "Interview with Jeannette Francis | upstart". www.upstart.net.au.
  6. 1 2 3 Valentish, Jenny (23 February 2019). "Hear Us Roar". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales. p. 12, Spectrum.
  7. 1 2 Blackiston, Hannah (18 July 2019). "Alice Matthews to join SBS' The Feed, as Jan Fran and Patrick Abboud depart". Mumbrella. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  8. ↑ "Jan Fran / Claxton Speakers / Speaker Profile". www.claxtonspeakers.com.au.
  9. ↑ Mathieson, Craig (27 June 2019). "Good medicine is in short supply". The Age. Melbourne, Victoria. p. GG3.
  10. ↑ Bedo, Stephanie (29 November 2018). "Why we need to start calling out sexual harassment". News.com.au. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  11. ↑ "Double standards of Western media outlets criticized after Christchurch terror attack". Daily Sabah. Istanbul, Turkey. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  12. ↑ Carmody, Broede (25 November 2019). "Jan Fran holds mirror to Cronulla Riots in her first comedic memoir". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  13. ↑ Mathieson, Craig (18 August 2021). "Wil Anderson and Jan Fran put misinformation to the test in new show". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
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