Jack Szwergold is a comedy writer and the Webby-Award

Webby Awards

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-winning first webmaster for the news parody publication The Onion

The Onion

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...

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Szwergold convinced The Onion Editor and Publisher Scott Dikkers

Scott Dikkers

Scott Dikkers is a United States comedy writer and filmmaker. He was the founding editor of The Onion, and the leading creative force behind the publication's rise from a local college newspaper to an internationally acclaimed humor brand name...

 that a Web site would increase readership, and The Onions site launched in May 1996. The site has won multiple Webby Awards and other industry and media accolades.http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/onion.html?pg=3

In January 2001 Jack Szwergold left The Onion and returned to Brooklyn, NY, where he currently resides and juggles a career working as a web developer and as a writer. In addition to his work for The Onion, Jack has written for Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

, National Public Radio, Modern Humorist

Modern Humorist

Modern Humorist is a U.S.-based humor webzine founded in 2000 by John Aboud and Michael Colton , and managed by CEO Kate Barker. Its board of directors includes feature film producer Frank Marshall and comedian Jon Stewart.A competitor of the The Onion, Modern Humorist stopped publishing new...

, Suck.com

Suck.com

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, Wired magazine, Mother Jones magazine, and Green Magazine.

Books

• Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source (contributing writer and illustrator) (1999, ISBN 0-6098-0461-8)
• The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1 (contributing writer and illustrator) (2000, ISBN 0-6098-0463-4)
• Dispatches from the Tenth Circle (contributing writer and illustrator) (2001, ISBN 0-6098-0834-6)

External links

• Digital Darlings Bask at Webbys Webby Awards
  Webby Awards
  A Webby Award is an international award presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the Internet with categories in websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile....
  
  coverage from 1999 which includes quotes from Jack Szwergold
• "Onion" Movie in Serious Trouble Detailed discussion and postings about "The Onion" and the alt-comedy website, A Special Thing