Jan Fran Explained

Jan Fran
Birth Name:Jeannette Francis
Birth Place:Lebanon
Known For:The Feed
Nationality:Australian
Education:Mount Saint Joseph, Milperra, University of Technology Sydney

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.

Early life

Fran was born in Lebanon[1] to a Maronite Christian family. In 1989, she moved to Australia,[2] where she grew up in Bankstown in Sydney, New South Wales.[3] Fran studied journalism 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.[4] 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] from the program’s launch in 2013[5] until July 2019.[5] 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. In 2017, she was made an Australia Day Ambassador.[6] Fran also hosted the series Medicine or Myth? on SBS in 2019.[7]

Fran is an ambassador for Plan International Australia and has hosted a series of podcasts called Sexism and the City which Plan commissioned.[8] [9] 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.[10]

As of November 2019, she is writing a memoir, Of Middle Eastern Appearance, to be published by Hachette Australia.[11]

In 2021, Fran began hosting Question Everything with Wil Anderson on ABC.[12]

Personal life

In 2015, Fran married Al Morrow, an advertising director.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jan Fran takes a DNA test: what did she discover?. The Feed.
  2. Web site: 'You have to see it to be it': Meet three women who are changing the face of Australian TV. Sharon. Verghis. 27 July 2017. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. Web site: Wilosophy Podcast with Jan Fran. 3 October 2019.
  4. Web site: Interview with Jeannette Francis | upstart. www.upstart.net.au.
  5. News: Blackiston . Hannah . Alice Matthews to join SBS' The Feed, as Jan Fran and Patrick Abboud depart . 14 August 2019 . Mumbrella . 18 July 2019.
  6. Web site: Jan Fran / Claxton Speakers / Speaker Profile. www.claxtonspeakers.com.au.
  7. News: Mathieson . Craig . Good medicine is in short supply . The Age . 27 June 2019 . Melbourne, Victoria . GG3.
  8. News: Valentish . Jenny . Hear Us Roar . The Sydney Morning Herald . 23 February 2019 . Sydney, New South Wales . 12, Spectrum.
  9. News: Bedo . Stephanie . Why we need to start calling out sexual harassment . 14 August 2019 . News.com.au . 29 November 2018.
  10. News: Double standards of Western media outlets criticized after Christchurch terror attack . 14 August 2019 . Daily Sabah . 20 March 2019 . Istanbul, Turkey.
  11. News: Jan Fran holds mirror to Cronulla Riots in her first comedic memoir . . Broede . Carmody . 25 November 2019 . 25 November 2019.
  12. Web site: Mathieson. Craig. 2021-08-18. Wil Anderson and Jan Fran put misinformation to the test in new show. 2021-11-29. The Sydney Morning Herald. en.
  13. Brygel . Jackie . The Story of Us. The Feed co-host and her husband reflect on life since their anything-but-humdrum first encounter. New Idea . Australia . 25 February 2019 . 14 July 2019.