The Onion, Owner Defeat Ex-Female Officer’s Bias, Reprisal Suit

The Onion Inc.'s former chief resource officer lacks proof that her role was diminished and she received a lower severance offer than a male officer she said was similarly situated after the satirical digital media company was acquired in 2019 by private equity group Great Hill Partners LP, a Manhattan federal judge ruled.

Katherine Pontius Ebel also failed with her allegations that she was subjected to retaliation after Great Hill created G/O Media Inc. to run The Onion and Gizmondo Media Group, which it acquired in the same deal from Univision, the US District Court for the Southern District of ...