The Onion
Creators of "America's Finest News Source"
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The Onion dates back to 1756, when Freidrich Siegfried Zweibel--an immigrant tuber farmer from Prussia--bartered a sack of yams for a printing press and named his fledgling newspaper The Mercantile-Onion.
...Others contend the first issue of The Onion was printed in 1988 in Madison, Wis., by two students working out of their University of Wisconsin dorm. In the paper's early years, the humor had a local focus, with headlines that included "Pen Stolen From Dorm Study Area" and "Winged Monkeys Terrorize State Capitol."
"America's Finest News Source," The Onion is a satirical weekly newspaper distributed in cities throughout the country, including New York, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee and Denver. The New Yorker dubbed the publication "arguably the most popular humor periodical in world history" per its weekly readership of more than three million people (and an additional 1 million listeners to Onion Radio).
Providing a unique look at current events with hard-hitting national news stories, in-depth local articles, engaging opinion columns and informational informational charts, The Onion tackles the issues other publications miss, including: "Half-Naked Kissinger Thrown Out of U.S. News & World Report Mansion," "Marital Frustrations Channeled through Thermostat," "Christ Converts to Islam" and "Area Loser to Spend Rest of Day In Bed."
The Onion's side-splitting presentation explores/mocks today's most current topics while specifically tailoring the content to the tone of any event. Taking into account its humble dorm-room origins, The Onion is an authority in turning creative endeavor into profitable business.
AT A GLANCE: The Onion's motto is "Tu Stultus Es"-"You Are Dumb." It is editorial policy that the readers should have no voice whatsoever and that the newspaper shall be solely a one-way conduit of information. The Onion has no political affiliation: It is the paper's goal to mock mercilessly the left and the right, the powerful and the weak, the deserving and the utterly innocent.
The little paper from Madison had a growing national fan base comprised of mail subscribers when it went online in 1996. As readership soared, Onion writers left their day jobs as credit-union tellers, dishwashers and liquor-store clerks to work at the paper full time. In 2001, Onion World Headquarters moved from Madison to New York City.
All comedy content in The Onion is created by a staff of about 10 funnypersons, the most-veteran of whom met as writers and cartoonists at a UW-Madison student newspaper. Onion staffers have gone on to author books, write and direct films, and work in television. The group's first book, "Our Dumb Century," was a New York Times No. 1 best seller and won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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...Others contend the first issue of The Onion was printed in 1988 in Madison, Wis., by two students working out of their University of Wisconsin dorm. In the paper's early years, the humor had a local focus, with headlines that included "Pen Stolen From Dorm Study Area" and "Winged Monkeys Terrorize State Capitol."
"America's Finest News Source," The Onion is a satirical weekly newspaper distributed in cities throughout the country, including New York, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee and Denver. The New Yorker dubbed the publication "arguably the most popular humor periodical in world history" per its weekly readership of more than three million people (and an additional 1 million listeners to Onion Radio).
Providing a unique look at current events with hard-hitting national news stories, in-depth local articles, engaging opinion columns and informational informational charts, The Onion tackles the issues other publications miss, including: "Half-Naked Kissinger Thrown Out of U.S. News & World Report Mansion," "Marital Frustrations Channeled through Thermostat," "Christ Converts to Islam" and "Area Loser to Spend Rest of Day In Bed."
The Onion's side-splitting presentation explores/mocks today's most current topics while specifically tailoring the content to the tone of any event. Taking into account its humble dorm-room origins, The Onion is an authority in turning creative endeavor into profitable business.
AT A GLANCE: The Onion's motto is "Tu Stultus Es"-"You Are Dumb." It is editorial policy that the readers should have no voice whatsoever and that the newspaper shall be solely a one-way conduit of information. The Onion has no political affiliation: It is the paper's goal to mock mercilessly the left and the right, the powerful and the weak, the deserving and the utterly innocent.
The little paper from Madison had a growing national fan base comprised of mail subscribers when it went online in 1996. As readership soared, Onion writers left their day jobs as credit-union tellers, dishwashers and liquor-store clerks to work at the paper full time. In 2001, Onion World Headquarters moved from Madison to New York City.
All comedy content in The Onion is created by a staff of about 10 funnypersons, the most-veteran of whom met as writers and cartoonists at a UW-Madison student newspaper. Onion staffers have gone on to author books, write and direct films, and work in television. The group's first book, "Our Dumb Century," was a New York Times No. 1 best seller and won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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