Jack Szwergold is a former comedy writer and the Webby-Award-winning first webmaster for the news parody publication ''

The Onion ''The Onion'' is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is based in Chicago but originated as a weekly print publication on August 2 ...

''. In 1996, he convinced ''The Onion'' Editor and Publisher

Scott Dikkers Scott Dikkers (born March 1, 1965) is an American comedy writer, speaker and entrepreneur. He was a founding editor of ''The Onion'', and is the publication's longest-serving editor-in-chief, holding the position from 1988–1999, 2005–2008, and ...

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. As a writer, he has written for

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'', and ''Green Magazine'' as well as created the (now defunct) website ''Royal Journal'' as a creative side project independent of his work at the Onion. In 2012 Jack, who was the Guggenheim Museum’s Web Infrastructure Systems Administrator at the time, worked with the curatorial and conservation departments at the museum to recover — and functionally restore — the first web artwork commission made by the museum: ''Brandon'' (1998–99) by

Shu Lea Cheang Shu Lea Cheang () (born April 13, 1954) is a Taiwanese-American artist and filmmaker who lived and worked in New York City in the 1980s and 90s, until relocating to the EuroZone in 2000. Cheang received a BA in history from the National Taiwan Un ...

. The effort to get the artwork’s digital components in working order paved the way for the full restoration of the digital artwork in 2018 which is publicly accessible today.

Books

* ''Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source'' (contributing writer and illustrator) (1999, ) * ''The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1'' (contributing writer and illustrator) (2000, ) * ''Dispatches from the Tenth Circle'' (contributing writer and illustrator) (2001, )

References

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