The Onion quits print
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The Onion quits print
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#2The Onion was in print??
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#3In a way this is too bad, in the 90's I'd always pick a copy when I visited friends in Madison, WI.
But it also isn't very surprising. Free print publications are entirely reliant on print ads, which have have been having significant downward treads.
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#4The Onion was in print??
Yeah, it was free paper in certain cities like nyc.
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#5I'll shed a single tear because I have nostalgia for the print version, but this isn't really such bad news. The Onion has evolved, not died. They grew quite successfully into digital (especially with video & social media), and they're now completing that transition by cutting off what has by now become a vestigial distribution channel.
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#6The Onion was in print??
They've actually been around since 1988, initially only in print. I have personally never seen a print copy, either.
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#7Wait, this isn't a fake Onion headline?
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#8With how much the Onion appears on Facebook feeds, it has successfully evolved.
I do have to admit I was wistfully looking for this hint as a spoof, but I believe it's true. I miss grabbing the hardcopy in lieu of a watered down mini-newspaper on the way to the subway.
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#9The Onion was in print??
I picked it up in Boulder a number of times.
Print was nice for all the reasons that any printed newspaper is nice--browsability, crosstalk between stories, portability, no power/screen required. Bummer that they had to cease print.
But if it wasn't sustainable, it wasn't sustainable.
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#10Aw man! I live in Chicago and there are soooo many Onion news stands; one right next to each legit stand like the tribune. And they always kept it up to date, which always made their joke that much funnier.