The Onion's Baratunde Thurston On Why Media Pros Should Diversify

Like many media professionals these days, Baratunde Thurston wears many hats.

He has been with The Onion for more than two years as Web and politics editor, recently hosted a show on the Science Channel, “Popular Science’s Future Of,” and has a forthcoming book called How To Be Black. Did we mention he also does stand-up comedy?

“It all feeds itself,” he said in the second installment of our Media Beat interview.

“My own comedy benefits just from being around super funny people at The Onion.

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