How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral
About this episode
From the show’s notesThe Onion is a comedy institution — and like everything else in media, it went on a pure nightmare hell ride in the 2010s. We could do an entire episode on the G/O Media calamity, but the short version is: A bunch of friends just managed to buy The Onion, and they're busy relaunching the website, going back to print, and, clearly, having a blast doing it. CEO Ben Collins and chief product officer Danielle Strle joined me to explain how that even works in 2024.
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Read the show’s notes in full
The Onion sold by G/O Media | The New York Times
Sam Reich on revamping the game show - and Dropout’s success | NPR
Platformer’s Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse | Decoder
Craig Silverman: Digital advertising’s structure has been weaponized | Digiday
US Warns a Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity | The Onion
The Truth is Paywalled but the Lies are Free | Current Affairs
A newsroom expands and The Onion is out again on paper | Washington Post
Report: Nuclear War Sounds Fucking Amazing Right Now | The Onion
Google defends AI search results after they told us to put glue on pizza | The Verge
Jury awards nearly $1B to Sandy Hook families in Alex Jones defamation case | CNN
‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens | The Onion
Transcript: theverge.com/e/23989633
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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