Jack Szwergold

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Jack Szwergold is the Webby-Award-winning first Web master for the news parody publication The Onion.

Szwergold convinced The Onion Editor and Publisher Scott Dikkers that a Web site would increase readership, and The Onion's site launched in May 1996. The site has won multiple Webby Awards and other industry and media accolades.[1]

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.^{[citations needed]} In addition to his work for The Onion, Jack has written for Nickelodeon (TV channel), National Public Radio, Modern Humorist, Suck.com, Wired magazine, Mother Jones magazine, and Green Magazine.^{[citations needed]}

[edit] External links

• Digital Darlings Bask at Webbys Webby Awards coverage from 1999 which includes quotes from Jack Szwergold
• "Onion" Movie in Serious Trouble Detailed discussion and postings about the "The Onion" and the alt-comedy website, A Special Thing