Antoinette Lattouf

Antoinette Lattouf is an award winning journalist, presenter, podcaster, author and human rights advocate whose surname has now become a verb—Lattoufed: to be sacked or silenced for standing your ground.
Her case, Lattouf v ABC, became a flashpoint in debates about free speech, institutional cowardice, and what happens when a journalist speaks truth to (media) power.
She’s the co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, co-creator of independent media company Ette Media, a TEDx speaker, and a regular fixture on lists like the AFR’s 100 Women of Influence. Her first book, How to Lose Friends and Influence White People, somehow won her friends. She’s now finishing her second—Women Who Win—an exploration of women who saw the rulebook, chuckled and used it as a coaster.
Known for wielding humour like a weapon—equal parts shield and scalpel—Lattouf’s work spans commercial and public broadcasting, boardrooms, courtrooms, and the occasional Murdoch media pile-on. And no, she’s not done yet.