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The Onion Story: How a Band of Misfits, Dropouts, and Sad Sacks Built the World's Most Trusted News Source

The Onion Story: How a Band of Misfits, Dropouts, and Sad Sacks Built the World's Most Trusted News Source

Dikkers, Scott

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralBusiness GeneralHumor

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1637747519
ISBN13: 9781637747513
Publisher: Matt Holt Books
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.88
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Dikkers' comedic voice, so integral to creating the distinctive Onion style, lends to a mixture of journalistic verve and an authentically confessional account of long nights and betting on your own talents. Fans of The Onion will relish revisiting some of its best stories and headlines while witnessing its constant reinvention as the media landscape itself continues to evolve. --Booklist

The founder of TheOnion.com and longest-serving editor-in-chief regales readers with never-before-told anecdotes from the beloved satiric newsroom in this celebration of creativity, resilience, and the transformative power of jokes--delivered in AP style.

In this laugh-out-loud origin story of a world-renowned satirist and America's Finest News Source Scott Dikkers treats you to a rollicking trip through the 80s, 90s, and 00s, chronicling the inception, evolution, and success of The Onion from his view at the helm. With his famous wit and wisdom Dikkers chronicles the paper's founding, run-ins with the law, scrapes with death, and raving-mad antics of its staff in chapters like:

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