Mosheh Oinounou


Mosheh Oinounou is an American media executive who most recently served as executive producer of CBS Evening News.

Biography

Oinounou was born to a Jewish family and raised in Chicago. He is a graduate of George Washington University where he received a BA in Political Communication and an MA in Security Policy Studies. He served as editor in chief of the school's biweekly newspaper, The GW Hatchet. He began his media career as a producer at Fox News Channel, initially for Fox News Sunday and later as the network's embedded producer traveling with the 2008 McCain presidential campaign. He later worked as an international editor at Bloomberg TV where he covered the great recession and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
In 2011 he joined CBS News as a senior producer on the team that helped launch CBS This Morning and received a 2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He then helped to establish CBSN, CBS' digital streaming channel where he served as the launch executive producer. In January 2018, he was promoted to executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor where he oversaw daily operations and news programming. During his tenure the broadcast was nominated for multiple Emmy and Murrow Awards. In May 2019, he announced he was departing CBS News. He currently consults for media organizations on digital content strategy and programming.