Peeled
By Mitch Berg
President of The Onion leaving:
The Onion, the humor newspaper and online mecca for satire lovers, is losing its president. “It’s been a great run, but the time has come for a new challenge,” Sean Mills told partners in an email message. Mills tells minonline he had been negotiating a departure from the company for a while, but did not offer any further explanation for the move. He says that he started at the brand in 2002, when there was a staff of 35, print distribution in four cities and 2 million unique visitors to the Web site each month. “Today we have newspapers in 10 cities, 8 million readers online and 150 employees, as well as a video network that gets over 2 million views each week,” he said in a statement. In fact, next week Onion launches another Web video program, the Onion Sports Network.
To bad one of those “new challenges” isn’t making The Onion funnier. It’s been pretty feeble lately.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 am
I was working at an ad agency in Madison in the early 90s. These goofy kids came in trying to sell this coupon flyer targeting college kids.
Who knew that it would become such a powerhouse?