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.

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.

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]

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