In its earlier years, The Onion was successful in a number of university locations (e.g., University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign). Dikkers, who originally joined the staff as a cartoonist, said he was de facto editor by the third issue and became The Onion 's longest-serving editor in chief (1988–1999, 2005–2008).
Haise left The Onion after 15 years and eventually opened a custom framing shop in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. After the sale, Keck and Johnson separately became publishers of similar alternative weeklies: Keck of The Stranger in Seattle, Washington, and Johnson of the Weekly Alibi in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1989, Keck and Johnson sold the paper to Dikkers and Haise for $16,000 ($19,000 according to some sources). Madison (1988–2001) Ĭonceived by University of Wisconsin students Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson, The Onion was founded as a weekly print newspaper for satirical news in 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin, by Keck and Johnson with their friends Scott Dikkers as cartoonist and Peter Haise as publisher. According to Bolton, the most plausible explanation is that The Onion was mocking a campus newsletter called The Union. Bolton called Mills's account "the dumbest explanation" and asserted that it is likely wrong. This account was disputed by an editor of The Onion, Cole Bolton, during an event at the University of Chicago. They had literally just cut up the onion and put it on bread." According to former editorial manager, Chet Clem, their food budget was so low when they started the paper that they were down to white bread and onions. Literally that his uncle said he should call it The Onion when he saw him and Chris Johnson eating an onion sandwich. "People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from," said former President Sean Mills in an interview with Wikinews "and, when I recently asked Tim Keck, who was one of the founders, he told me. The Onion previously ran ClickHole, a satirical website founded in 2014 which parodies clickbait websites such as BuzzFeed and Upworthy, before ClickHole was acquired by Cards Against Humanity in February 2020. Club, an entertainment and pop culture publication founded in 1993 that contains interviews and reviews of newly released media and other weekly features. In 1999, comedian Bob Odenkirk praised the publication as "the best comedy writing in the country". The publication's humor often depends on presenting mundane, everyday events as newsworthy, surreal, or alarming, such as "Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness". The Onion 's articles cover current events, both real and fictional, parodying the tone and format of traditional news organizations with stories, editorials, and man-on-the-street interviews using a traditional news website layout and an editorial voice modeled after that of the Associated Press. In 2013, The Onion ceased publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the Onion News Network. The Onion began publishing online in early 1996.
The company is based in Chicago but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988, in Madison, Wisconsin. The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news.
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