Jan Fran
{{Short description|Australian journalist and presenter}}
{{Distinguish|Jan Francis}}
{{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Jan Fran
| image =
| birth_name = Jeannette Francis
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1985}}
| birth_place = Lebanon
| known_for = The Feed
| nationality = Australian
| spouse = {{marriage|Al Morrow|17 January 2015}}
| education = Mount Saint Joseph, Milperra, University of Technology Sydney
| website = {{URL|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.
Early life
Fran was born in Lebanon{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/jan-fran-takes-a-dna-test-what-did-she-discover|title=Jan Fran takes a DNA test: what did she discover?|website=The Feed}} to a Maronite Christian family. In 1989, she moved to Australia,{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/you-have-to-see-it-to-be-it-meet-three-women-who-are-changing-the-face-of-australian-tv-20170727-gxjsb9.html|title='You have to see it to be it': Meet three women who are changing the face of Australian TV|first=Sharon|last=Verghis|date=27 July 2017|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}} where she grew up in Bankstown in Sydney, New South Wales.{{Cite web|url=https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=440971|title=Wilosophy Podcast with Jan Fran|last=|first=|date=3 October 2019|website=|via=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.upstart.net.au/interview-with-jeannette-francis/|title=Interview with Jeannette Francis | upstart|website=www.upstart.net.au}} 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 from the program’s launch in 2013{{cite news |last1=Blackiston |first1=Hannah |title=Alice Matthews to join SBS' The Feed, as Jan Fran and Patrick Abboud depart |url=https://mumbrella.com.au/alice-matthews-to-join-sbs-the-feed-as-jan-fran-and-patrick-abboud-depart-589357 |accessdate=14 August 2019 |work=Mumbrella |date=18 July 2019}} until July 2019. 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.claxtonspeakers.com.au/speakers_profile/2514|title=Jan Fran / Claxton Speakers / Speaker Profile|website=www.claxtonspeakers.com.au}} Fran also hosted the series Medicine or Myth? on SBS in 2019.{{cite news |last1=Mathieson |first1=Craig |title=Good medicine is in short supply |work=The Age |date=27 June 2019 |location=Melbourne, Victoria |page=GG3}}
Fran is an ambassador for Plan International Australia and has hosted a series of podcasts called Sexism and the City which Plan commissioned.{{cite news |last1=Valentish |first1=Jenny |title=Hear Us Roar |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=23 February 2019 |location=Sydney, New South Wales |page=12, Spectrum}}{{cite news |last1=Bedo |first1=Stephanie |title=Why we need to start calling out sexual harassment |url=https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/why-we-need-to-start-calling-out-sexual-harassment/news-story/8d9c4ed4f3e1042c7538f83ff8de566f |accessdate=14 August 2019 |work=News.com.au |date=29 November 2018}} 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.{{cite news |title=Double standards of Western media outlets criticized after Christchurch terror attack |url=https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2019/03/20/double-standards-of-western-media-outlets-criticized-after-christchurch-terror-attack |accessdate=14 August 2019 |work=Daily Sabah |date=20 March 2019 |location=Istanbul, Turkey}}
As of November 2019, she is writing a memoir, Of Middle Eastern Appearance, to be published by Hachette Australia.{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/jan-fran-holds-mirror-to-cronulla-riots-in-her-first-comedic-memoir-20191125-p53dst.html |title=Jan Fran holds mirror to Cronulla Riots in her first comedic memoir |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |first=Broede |last=Carmody |date=25 November 2019 |accessdate=25 November 2019}}
In 2021, Fran began hosting Question Everything with Wil Anderson on ABC.{{Cite web|last=Mathieson|first=Craig|date=2021-08-18|title=Wil Anderson and Jan Fran put misinformation to the test in new show|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/wil-anderson-and-jan-fran-put-misinformation-to-the-test-in-new-show-20210816-p58j4d.html|access-date=2021-11-29|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}
Personal life
In 2015, Fran married Al Morrow, an advertising director.{{Cite journal |last=Brygel |first= Jackie |url=https://www.pressreader.com/australia/new-idea/20190225/282827897415709|title=The Story of Us. The Feed co-host and her husband reflect on life since their anything-but-humdrum first encounter|journal=New Idea |location=Australia |date=25 February 2019 |accessdate=14 July 2019}}
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Category:Lebanese emigrants to Australia
Category:Australian reporters and correspondents
Category:Australian television presenters
Category:Australian women television presenters
Category:University of Technology Sydney alumni
Category:21st-century Australian journalists
Category:21st-century Australian women journalists