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Goodbye Oprah, Hello Onion
Revision3 Announces Partnership with The Onion's A.V. Club
Comedy Central and The Onion Announce Launch of Onion Sports Network
'Onion SportsDome' Comes to Comedy Central
The Onion Announces Four Media Partnerships in Bid to Expand Print Distribution
Onion Announces Partnership with Chicago Tribune Media Group
U.S. Government To Save Billions By Cutting Wasteful Senator Program
The Onion Teams with Comedy Central to Produce Half-Hour Comedy Pilot Bangladesh Newspapers Run Fake Story by The Onion
Factual Error Discovered on The Internet!
I agree with Vidalia and being from Hawaii makes me tear up even more. I too love the Onion and remember it from when I spent some time in DC when I got it in print, but do love the online version as well. So its printed in Denver huh? This truly is "America's Finest News Source" for a number of reasons. 1) Just
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-- The private equity-controlled G/O Media has sold satirical website The Onion to a Global Tetrahedron, a new business led by Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson. Former NBC News reporter Ben Collins will the CEO of the company. Lawson rationalized the purchase on X with the comment "The Internet sucks, and it's time we made it better."
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, April 30, 2024
-- On April 8, 2019, private equity company Great Hill Partners said it has bought the satirical website The Onion from Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications Inc.
The deal also includes Gizmodo Media Group, which produces websites focused on technology (Gizmodo), car culture (Jalopnik), modern women's interests (Jezebel), sports (Deadspin), lifestyle (Lifehacker),...
Posted by Mondo Times Editors, Boulder Colorado, December 1, 2014
-- In February 2014, Head writer, Cole Bolton, was promoted to editor in chief of the Onion. He succeeds Will Tracy who left to write for the HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Posted by Mondo Times Editors, Boulder Colorado, June 2, 2014
-- The satirical weekly will move editorial operations from New York to Chicago this summer, likely by July.
Roughly a third of the Onion's 23 New York-based editorial employees won't make the move midwest, though, including editor Joe Randazzo. However, founding editor Scott Dikkers is set to return to take the top editorial spot.
More from Nothing fake about The Onion's move, published March 31,...
-- The Federal agency investigated the publication regarding a series of satirical Twitter reports claiming that there was a hostage situation inside the Capitol building.
The New York Times reported on the developments on September 29, 2011:
"Starting at 10:33 a.m., The Onion's Twitter account began spewing the fake messages that began with this post: "BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire...
-- On April 27, 2011, the Onion reported, as only it can, on the depth and breadth of media coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton:
"The media is going to great lengths to cover the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton this Friday, with CNN alone dedicating 125 reporters to the event. Here are some of the extremes media outlets are undertaking:
--...
-- January 17, 2011 -- The Onion announced today the hire of Mitch Semel as General Manager of The Onion.
Semel will oversee all editorial elements of The Onion, including the newspaper, TheOnion.com, the Onion News Network, the two new television shows, “Onion News Network” on IFC and “Onion SportsDome,” and any new creative ventures.
Since 2003, Semel has run his own...
-- December 22, 2010 -- Revision3 today announced a partnership with The Onion's A.V. Club (avclub.com) to bring A.V. Talk to its network of more than 20 programs. The new video show, already a very popular audio podcast, is hosted by the Editors of The A.V. Club and offers weekly, in-depth discussions about movies, television, music, and more.
Originally launched in print in 1995, and now with nearly...
-- December 14, 2010: The Onion is teaming up with Comedy Central to launch OnionSportsNetwork.com. OnionSportsNetwork.com is the latest creative collaboration between the two premiere comedy brands and will be the digital extension for its new series "Onion SportsDome," which debuts on Comedy Central on January 11 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT.
The ad-supported vertical expands on the popular Onion Sports franchise and the...
-- December 1, 2010 -- Sports are finally about to get the attention they deserve, courtesy of The Onion. America's most trusted news source is teaming up with Comedy Central to bring viewers the most intense televised sports news program in recorded human history. "Onion SportsDome," a 30-minute rundown of the finest in sports news, analysis, scores, highlights, rumor-mongering and petty...
-- October 25, 2010: The satirical newspaper The Onion recently announced four new business partnerships in cities across the U.S. The company views these partnerships as components of a broader, strategic plan to expand its national print distribution. Four media organizations teamed up with The Onion in the past four days: Austin American-Statesman, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Wisconsin State Journal and The Denver...
-- June 24, 2010: Onion, Inc., publisher of the satirical newspaper The Onion and its pop-culture-focused sister publication The A.V. Club, has entered a new partnership with The Chicago Tribune Media Group, which calls for the Tribune to run the business side of The Onion's print edition in Chicago.
Under the terms of the partnership, The Onion will maintain exclusive rights over all comedy and pop-culture...
-- The Onion reported on March 30, 2010:
"In an effort to reduce wasteful spending and eliminate non-vital federal services, the U.S. government announced plans this week to cut its long-standing senator program, a move it says will help save more than $300 billion each year.
According to officials, the decision to cut the national legislative body was reached during a budget review meeting on Tuesday. After...
-- Variety reported on November 5, 2009:
"The series is designed to appeal to both casual and hardcore fans of sports as well as the Onion's well-defined style of humor.
Recent headlines on OSN include "SEC Replay Official Overturns Roe v. Wade" and "Mark McGwire to Teach Cardinal Hitters at What Point in Swing to Evade Congressional Questioning."
The full story:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010913.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, November 7, 2009
-- In the September 3, 2009 issue, fake news source The Onion reported that astronaut Neil Armstrong had been persuaded that the Apollo 11 moon landing was faked. Several newspapers in Bangladesh (the New Nation and the Daily Manab Zamin) picked up the story and ran it as legitimate news.
The Onion story lede:
"Apollo 11 mission commander and famed astronaut Neil Armstrong shocked reporters at...
-- On May 22, 2002, The Onion reported that a factual error has been found on the Internet:
LONGMONT, CO—The Information Age was dealt a stunning blow Monday, when a factual error was discovered on the Internet. The error was found on TedsUltimateBradyBunch.com, a Brady Bunch fan site that incorrectly listed the show's debut year as 1968, not 1969.
Caryn Wisniewski, a Pueblo, CO, legal...
Posted by Maui, Maui, Hawaii, June 18, 2008
naming yourself that takes the same kind of audacity as turning real news into fake news and branding it as real news. 2) It has succeeded in putting some humor into an otherwise dreary and serious world. Every issue facing the world can, at some point, be seen through a lens of humor. This humor can help open up the holes we get our minds and therefore ourselves stuck in, and help to push solutions forward. 3) The writing is superb. The authors have so much creativity...