The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 400,000 and says 61 percent of its web site readers are between 18 and 44 years old. Since 2007, the organization has been publishing satirical news audios and videos online, as the "Onion News Network". Web traffic on theonion.com amounts to some 7.5 million unique visitors per month. The Onion's articles comment on current events, both real and fictional. It parodies such traditional newspaper features as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes on a traditional newspaper layout with an AP-style editorial voice. Much of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy and by playing on commonly used phrases, as in the headline "Drugs Win Drug War." A second...

Awards Won: 2008 - Peabody Award - Onion News Network (Video); 
Works written: Our Dumb World  Our Dumb Century  The Onion Platinum Prestige Encore Gold Premium Collector's Collection  The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1  Our Dumb Century  
Periodicals Published: The Onion; 
Produces: The Onion Radio News  Onion News Network (Video)  
Employees and other personnel: Joe Randazzo; Joshua Green; 
Software: The Onion  The Onion Tablet  
Websites Owned: The Onion  
Related Web Pages: http://www.theonion.com/  Twitter Page  Daylife Topic Page  Open Library  

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