Oinounou 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 then worked as an international editor at
Bloomberg TV, where he covered the "
Great Recession" and the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011.
CBS Oinounou joined
CBS News in 2011 as a senior producer on the team that helped launch
CBS This Morning, and received a
News & Documentary Emmy Award in 2013 for Outstanding Investigative Journalism as a producer for
CBS News Sunday Morning. He was the executive producer for the launch
CBSN, a digital streaming channel by CBS. He became executive producer of
CBS Evening News with
Jeff Glor in January 2018, overseeing daily operations and news programming. The broadcast was nominated for multiple Emmys, and won a Murrow Award during his tenure. He announced in May 2019 that he was departing CBS News.
Mo News Oinounou founded Mo Digital in 2020, consulting for media organizations on digital content strategy and programming. He started an online news platform on
Instagram,
Mo News, which is devoted to curating, reporting, and explaining the headlines. He launched a podcast and newsletter in 2022. He addressed the lessons he has learned from
Mo News, and how the mainstream media can
improve public trust in a
TedX talk in 2022. ==Personal life==