Meet Instagram's favorite 'news concierge' – Brooklyn Magazine

By Brian Braiker Like what you’re hearing? Subscribe to us at iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Google, Amazon, Stitcher and TuneIn. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! In 2019, veteran journalist Mosheh Oinounou was the executive producer on “CBS Evening News,” a rarefied and powerful job in broadcasting earned after years of working at CBS and other networks, including Fox News and Bloomberg TV. In 2020, the Emmy-winner went out on his own, but not to another network or streamer. He didn’t even go to Substack or Medium like other name brand journalists have done in recent years. Instead, he sort of accidentally pivoted to Instagram where he stumbled into a new prototype of news service. “I took to instagram not endeavoring to start a news brand, but trying to correct the record on things and calm people down a little bit,” he says. “If I was putting a business plan together two years ago, I probably wouldn’t have started on instagram. At the time I had a private account with 500 people.” Oinounou says one galvanizing moment came early in the pandemic when unsubstantiated rumors — that New York was going to shut down all bridges and tunnels, that there was…
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