Jan Fran

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 to a Maronite Christian family. In 1989, she moved to Australia, where she grew up in Bankstown in Sydney, New South Wales. 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. 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 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. Fran also hosted the series Medicine or Myth? on SBS in 2019.

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

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

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

Personal life
In 2015, Fran married Al Morrow, an advertising director.