Peeling Back The Onion

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

A great chat with Ben Collins, chief executive of The Onion, how they're “thriving by saying what others won’t—and why human-created satire matters in a media landscape increasingly saturated by noise and A.I. slop” on Status.

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