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Scott Gordon

Scott Gordon co-founded Tone Madison in 2014 has covered culture and politics in Madison since 2006 for publications including The A.V. Club, Dane101, and Isthmus, and has also covered policy, environmental issues, and public health for WisContext.

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Tone Madison marks a successful NewsMatch campaign for the fourth consecutive year

Reviewing the year-end total from a crucial fundraiser that powers our work.

An illustration shows black-and-white line-drawing portraits, from the shoulders up, of Scott Gordon, Grant Phipps, Christina Lieffring, and Steven Spoerl.
Tone Madison is announcing some leadership changes

Our fiercely independent, journalist-owned publication will move forward as our publisher steps down.

Tone Madison seeks a News and Politics Editor

Apply by May 19 to help us expand our political coverage.

An illustration shows a cardboard box surrounded by tangles of barbed wire. The box is marked "books" on one surface and "return to sender" on another.
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners goes back to square one

Prison officials have offered a path forward, but it's not great.

A series of Madison’s “affordable” housing complexes lined up next to each other, with dollar signs hovering in the air above.
Rachel Litchman receives disability-journalism honor for Tone Madison comic on housing policy

The National Center on Disability and Journalism gives a nod to "Madison’s (un)affordable and (in)accessible housing problem."

A still frame from the film "Milk Punch" shows three characters in their 20s standing near the windows of an appliance store in daylight. They hover around a stereo boombox in the foreground. The balding man on the right puts his left hand on top of it, inspecting it, while the woman in the center inspects a cassette tape case. To the left, the other long-haired man stares with an derisive expression.
“Milk Punch” revels in a Madison beautifully adrift

Erik Gunneson's locally shot 2000 feature returns to the Wisconsin Film Festival in a new digital restoration for its 25th anniversary on April 5.

An illustration shows art supplies and money-related symbols floating over a multicolor background. Dollar bills are shown with frowning faces drawn on, and the pyramid that appears on U.S. currency is drawn with a frowning face.
Madison and Dane County should fund the arts like it’s an emergency, because it is

We can fight fascism if we're willing to create refuges at the local level.

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Another layer of isolation could be coming for Dane County Jail “residents”

The grounds for scanning inmate mail are dubious, and vendors profit from the high price of connection.

A still from the film "L.A. Confidential" shows actor Danny DeVito in the role of a tabloid journalist, Sid Hudgens. Hudgens is shown in a close-up shot, holding a telephone receiver in an office, with covers from his gossip publication "Hush-Hush" hanging on the wall in the background.
Madison needs an evil gossip rag

A gross proposal for desperate times.

A screenshot from a redacted section of body-camera footage shows a multicolored grid of squares, each blurred such that the people or objects in the footage are unrecognizable.
Madison enters the debate over redaction fees for police body-camera footage

A proposal would allow MPD to take advantage of a highly unusual chapter in Wisconsin's open-records law.