THE ONION

The Onion dates back to 1756, when Freidrich Siegried Zweibel, an immigrant farmer from Prussia, bartered a sack of yams for a printing press and named his fledgling news paper The Mercantile Onion.

Others contend the first issue of The Onion was printed in 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin, 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.”

The Onion is a Peabody award-winning, American “fake news” organization. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national and local news. The Onion’s articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes, as well as a traditional newspaper layout and AP-style editorial voice. The Onion’s presentation explores/mocks today’s most current topics while specifically tailoring the content to the tone of any event.   The Onion is distributed in cities throughout the country and has a weekly readership of more than three million people.  The Onion has been dubbed “arguably the most popular humor periodical in world history” by The New Yorker.   Taking into account its humble dorm-room origins, The Onion is an authority in turning creative endeavor into profitable business.

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