Lamestream is an independent news platform tackling the crisis in media. Our podcast and newsletter cover how the media shapes news, culture, politics and current affairs, and how the industry's transformation is reshaping the world we live in.
You can contact us here, with feedback, questions or tip-offs.
Lamestream is hosted by award-winning journalists Osman Faruqi and Scott Mitchell. Between them, they have worked for almost every media organisation in the country.
With Lamestream, they're using their experience, insight and contacts to help listeners make sense of how media and political institutions really work. They’ll share inside secrets, spill goss and break their own stories to unpack what’s really going on.
Osman Faruqi is an Australian Podcast Award and Kennedy Award-winning journalist and editor. He has worked as the Editor and Executive Producer of 7am and most recently was the Culture Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He has also worked as a journalist and editor at the ABC. He previously hosted the award-winning podcasts The Culture and The Drop.
Scott Mitchell is an Australian Podcast Award-winning journalist and editor. He most recently served as Editor and Executive Producer of the 7am podcast. Previously, he's served as Digital Lead for the Audio Current Affairs division at ABC News, was a founding producer of the Rose d’Or-winning TV show You Can't Ask That, and was one of the cast of ABC TV's Hungry Beast.
Tip-offs and sharing information securely
If you want to share information about a story, or potential story, and believe communication needs to be handled sensitively and confidentially, then the best way to contact us is on Proton Mail.
You can contact us using Proton Mail.
Proton Mail is an encrypted email system. This means, if you create a Proton Mail and send us a message, the correspondence is end-to-end encrypted. Even we will not know who you are, unless you tell us. Messages will also be unreadable to any third-party.
This is only one part of source protection, but it's an important one. We take many other precautions to ensure sources are protected, which we can discuss with anyone who gets in touch.
Subscriber information
Ad-free podcast
All subscribers have access to an ad-free version of the show you can listen to in your preferred podcast app. Search your inbox for "Captivate" to find information on how to access it. If you have any questions, get in touch.
Discord
Subscribers also have access to our Discord. Discord is a social platform where the Lamestream community can chat to one another and interact with us.
There are conversations about news, politics, and our episodes, as well as fun topics like film and TV. We also host live events in Discord.