Radio voices, digital downloads: bridging old and new media in theOnion Radio Newspodcast

Abstract

This article explores the role of podcasts in the broader explosion of comedic content on digital platforms. It does so through interviews and participant observation of the making of The Onion's news satire podcast Onion Radio News, describing the complex alliance of writers, performers, producers and advertisers needed to make a comedy podcast stand out in an increasingly crowded field of competitors. Although now defunct, Onion Radio News highlights how the technological and industrial discourses of the so-called ‘new media’ are rooted in the ‘old’, and how comedy plays a vital role in negotiating this tension.

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