Tell Me Some Good News! Interview w/ Good News Movement Founder -- Mo News Conversation

Mo News

@mosheh / tentwentytwo

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

At a time when the headlines can totally bum you out, this episode is devoted to only good news! We speak to the founder of the @ Good News Movement instagram account, which has a community of 5 million followers across all platforms. Michelle Figueroa is a journalist who has devoted her account to featuring positive and inspirational stories–an important reminder that great things happen daily! In this Instagram Live-turned special podcast, we talk about how Michelle created the account and how she discovers and verifies the stories. We also discuss her new children’s book, A Good Thing Happened Today, inspired by the stories on the Instagram account!. – Please remember to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. – Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award- winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/moshehnews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Moch Wenunu. This is a special edition today of the Mo News
0:07.9	podcast. Today we are devoting the entire episode to good news for once.
0:13.4	Michelle Figueroa is a long time journalist for CNN, Al Jazeera, multiple other
0:18.1	outlets.
0:19.1	She took to Instagram just over four years ago to create an account exclusively devoted to good news.
0:24.1	Since then, the Good News Movement page has built a community of more than 5 million on multiple
0:29.2	platforms, gained celebrity followers like Tom Brady, Prince Harry, Jennifer Garner,
0:34.1	the page features incredible stories of humans doing good around the world.
0:38.1	A reminder that yes, people are good, good things happen, despite most of the news headlines you see day in and day out.
0:45.0	The exciting news is that Michelle also has a new children's book out called A Good
0:49.5	Thing Happened today inspired by the stories she is featured on her Instagram account.
0:54.4	I know you're really going to enjoy this conversation and Michelle's story, how she came to develop
0:59.3	the page and how she goes about curating and reporting out those stories day in and day out.
1:04.8	A heads up that I spoke to Michelle on Instagram Live on February 15th, so the Instagram
1:09.3	recording may have a couple hiccups, audio wise, but I thought it was so important to share this conversation regardless of the audio.
1:16.0	Before we get started here, a reminder to follow or subscribe to the show on whatever app you listen to us on,
1:21.0	and please leave us a review especially on Apple or
1:23.6	Spotify the reviews make such a difference and help us grow this podcast. With
1:28.2	that here's my conversation from Instagram Live this week with Michelle Figueroa
1:32.2	of the good News Movement.
1:34.0	Hey there you are!
1:38.0	How are you?
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