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The Onion Radio News
''The Onion'' is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is currently based in Chicago, but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988, in Madison, Wisconsin. ''The Onion'' began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the ''Onion News Network''. In 2013, ''The Onion'' stopped publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency. ''The Onion'' was then acquired three times, first by Univision in 2016, which later merged ''The Onion'' and its several other publications into those of Gizmodo Media Group. This unit was sold in 2019 to Great Hill Partners, forming a new company named G/O Media. Then, in April 2024, G/O Media sold ''The Onion'' to Global Tetrahedron, a firm newly created by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, which revived the print edition in August that year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Keck
Timothy A. Keck (born 1967) is an American newspaper publisher and satirist, best known for co-founding the satirical newspaper ''The Onion'' in 1988. After selling it the following year, he founded the free, weekly alternative newspaper ''The Stranger (newspaper), The Stranger'' in 1991. Early life Keck was born in Indiana in 1967 to Edward and Janet Keck. His father was a news editor and columnist for Hammond Times, ''The Hammond Times'' whose family of Volga Germans fled Ukraine during the 1940s to escape Population transfer in the Soviet Union, Stalinist deportations, while his mother was its star Environmental journalism, environmental reporter. After Edward died in 1978, Inland Steel Company executives pressured ''The Hammond Times'' to force Janet into resigning. Janet moved the family to Omro, Wisconsin, to care for her father and edit the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh magazine. Career Like his mother, Keck attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. To pay for coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
