Tim Keck

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Tim Keck

American newspaper publisher and satirist

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The Onion
Taking root in Wisconsin
…started by two college students—Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson—in a dorm at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1988. Keck, a native of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, took inspiration from his hometown paper, the Oshkosh Northwestern. “At the time, [the Northwestern] was really bad, and the headlines were unwittingly hilarious,” Keck recalled.…
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…started by two college students—Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson—in a dorm at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1988. Keck, a native of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, took inspiration from his hometown paper, the Oshkosh Northwestern. “At the time, [the Northwestern] was really bad, and the headlines were unwittingly hilarious,” Keck recalled.…
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