Scott Dikkers, Founder of The Onion, on How to Write Outrageously

Alex Baia
The Writing Cooperative
14 min readJan 13, 2019

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Photo from ScottDikkers.com

Do you want to write outrageously and find an audience that loves you? This interview is for you.

Scott Dikkers founded The Onion in 1988, and TheOnion.com in 1996, and has served as its owner and editor-in-chief, on and off, for many of the past 25 years.

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