Scaling Chaos: Two Years At The Onion
America’s Finest News Source, The Onion, has crammed a decade of plot into the last two years: It sold to new owners, staffed up, relaunched a subscription print edition, nearly bought Infowars (long story), and opened America’s Finest Creative Agency to bring its humor to brands. In a conversation economists are already calling “an upcoming session at Advertising Week,” The Onion’s Leila Brillson and Jordan LaFlure take us behind the scenes of the mischief-making institution that always keeps legal on its toes.
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