Editing Andy Borowitz (section)

=== Political satire ===
In the late 1990s, Borowitz began e-mailing humorous news parodies to friends. In 2001, he founded ''The Borowitz Report'', a site that posts one 250-word [[news satire]] every weekday. The site led to greater fame and widespread attention for Borowitz as a political satirist. ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' devoted a page-one story to him and his site in 2003 and readership ultimately grew to the millions. In 2005, the newspaper syndicator [[Creators Syndicate]] began syndicating ''The Borowitz Report'' to dozens of major newspapers, including the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The Seattle Times]]'', and ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''. It is also one of the longest-running features at the ''[[Newsweek]]'' website. He has served as a commentator on the [[National Public Radio]] programs ''[[Weekend Edition|Weekend Edition Sunday]]'' and ''[[Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!]]'', the latter on November 12, 2006. Borowitz is also a regular contributor to humor newspaper ''[[Funny Times (newspaper)|Funny Times]]''.

In 2007, he started blogging for the ''[[Huffington Post]]''. His posts were featured on the home page of the blog and quickly became one of its most popular features. His popularity surged during the 2008 campaign, leading ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' to call him "America's satire king".<ref>Staff (October 12, 2008).  [http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2008/10/12/mccain-auditions-for-angry-mob.html\ "McCain Auditions for Angry Mob"]. ''Cheat Sheets{{spaced ndash}}Must Reads from All Over'' (blog of [[The Daily Beast]]).  Retrieved August 20, 2012.</ref>

In 2009, ''The Borowitz Report'' began a [[Twitter]] feed, which was voted the number-one Twitter account in the world in a ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine poll in 2011. Eventually, he abandoned the feed.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Lepore|first=Jill|date=26 January 2015|title=The Cobweb|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb}}</ref>

On July 18, 2012, Borowitz announced that ''[[The New Yorker]]'' had acquired ''The Borowitz Report'' website, the first time that the magazine had ever made such an acquisition. In its first 24 hours as a ''New Yorker'' feature, ''The Borowitz Report'' garnered the most page views on the entire ''New Yorker'' website.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}