Your 2011 holiday gift guide, brought to you by the news
If you want to save journalism, you might turn to journalism this year for all your Christmas shopping. This weekend at NewsFoo, an O'Reilly "un-conference" for about 170 journalists and tech disrupters, the tech writer Mónica Guzmán posed a question: "Can't we [news organizations] sell anything besides articles?" Yes, it turns out, and there are...
A publisher bets on The Onion to save his business — for real
The career of Frank Mauran, owner of small Gaspee Publishing in Providence, R.I., is a parable of publishing's hard times. In the 1990s, he started up the Printing Equipment Guide, a biweekly publication for the publishing trade. "It's been a hard slog," Mauran said. "It's a trade publication for what's a shrinking industry." How hard...
A publisher bets on The Onion to save his business — for real
The career of Frank Mauran, owner of small Gaspee Publishing in Providence, R.I., is a parable of publishing's hard times. In the 1990s, he started up the Printing Equipment Guide, a biweekly publication for the publishing trade. "It's been a hard slog," Mauran said. "It's a trade publication for what's a shrinking industry." How hard...
Keep Your Beer Cool With This Joe Biden-Themed Koozie From The Obama 2012 Store
Vice President Joe Biden: foreign policy maven, train enthusiast, expert beer cooler? The Obama 2012 campaign seems to think so, as it is now featuring in its campaign store a beer koozie emblazoned with a smiling Biden, simply saying "Cheers Champ." It's not the only lighthearted campaign merchandise on the website-- Obama supporters also...
Sneak Preview Of Onion News Networks’ Second Season Features Horrible, Horrible Hallucinations
I know it's been a few months, but, here at Mediaite, we're still really bummed Onion SportsDome got canceled. Anyway, if there's one bright spot in this dismal state of affairs, it's that the other TV show from the folks behind The Onion, Onion News Network, is coming back for a second season...
No Joke: The Onion Is The Latest Paper To Create A Paywall
In the past, The Onion has pretended to be sold off to a Chinese company, completely redesigning the website to start discussing fish. Just a few weeks ago, they pretended to start a celebrity-filled campaign to get a Pulitzer only to "reveal" that the whole thing was a "scam."...
Panel Nerds: The Onion Writers Discuss Pulitzers and More
Who: Joe Garden, John Krewson, Katie Palmer, Seth Reiss, Will Tracy, moderated by Anderson Cooper What: "The Onion: Celebrating 1,000 Issues of Prize-Worthy Journalism" Where: Paley Center for Media When: June 21, 2011 Thumbs: Up
Bill Maher Accuses The Onion Of Plagiarism For Birther ‘Placenta Joke’
The rise and fall of the "birthers," America's foremost conspiracy theory punchline, has been a veritable goldmine for the nation's comedy industry. And as with all goldmines, people get possessive about who is encroaching on whose land. Earlier today, Bill Maher objected to The Onion stealing a joke about "afterbirthers" demanding to see the...
The Onion Fools The New York Times With Fake Obama Tiger Beat Cover
Today The New York Times admitted they made the mistake of treating a fake creation from The Onion as something legitimate. Last week the Times printed an article documenting the history of the squeaky-clean teen magazine Tiger Beat, and included a retrospective of past magazine covers. Unfortunately (or humorously depending on...
