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The Onion CEO on saving media

Rob Beschizza
May 21, 2025
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Ben Collins, CEO of the revived The Onion, is profiled by Chris Murphy for Vanity Fair. He has interesting ideas on how to succeed in the whitewater rapids of modern media, and he's proving them in print and online.

Instead, Collins has focused on getting The Onion the resources it so desperately needed, as well as pruning back the bullshit so the paper'…

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