Scott Gordon

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Publisher at tonemadison.com. Trying to make it work and make more time for: books, music, cooking, community
📍Madison, Wisconsin

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"One—and we cannot stress this enough—staff at government agencies do not typically threaten open-records requesters with a massive, punitive fine right off the bat."

A reporter asked for body-camera footage. UW-Madison police threatened her with a fine.tonemadison.com A hands-on encounter with Wisconsin’s newest and most troublesome open-records law.

Support us – Tone Madisontonemadison.com A message from Scott Gordon, publisher We’re here because readers in Madison value our work. It’s as simple as that. The more you help us out, the more we can focus on creating journalism that enriche...

UW-Madison's police department does not, strictly speaking, seem to understand a new law limiting access to body-camera footage, which hasn't stopped them from enforcing it. Very fun times

"One—and we cannot stress this enough—staff at government agencies do not typically threaten open-records requesters with a massive, punitive fine right off the bat."

A reporter asked for body-camera footage. UW-Madison police threatened her with a fine.tonemadison.com A hands-on encounter with Wisconsin’s newest and most troublesome open-records law.

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A new Wisconsin law hinders access to police body camera footage. UW-Madison campus police are already taking advantage, and the Madison Police Department has signaled interest as well, @scottgordonwi.bsky.social reports tonemadison.com/articles/a-n... Illustration by Andrew Mulhearn!

Been working extremely hard on this the past couple of weeks and tbh I think it's important!!

A bit navel-gazing, but I was asked to speak on a couple of media panel/conference things, including March 8 at Dane Arts' Business of Art conference at Arts + Lit Lab, and it got me thinking about some stuff!!

"Think of the media as six weasels in a burning trenchcoat," writes @scottgordonwi.bsky.social reflecting on the relationships and parallels between journalism and the arts tonemadison.com/articles/pre... Illustration by Rachal Duggan!

Got into a new package of local journalism-oriented bills in the Wisconsin Legislature. I think there are actually some really good things here, but we've got to think way deeper about who owns media and how we got here

Three bills from Democratic state legislators would create state funding and incentives to support local journalism. @scottgordonwi.bsky.social takes a closer look at the bills' strengths, their shortcomings, and the problems we're up against.

Wisconsin's three local journalism bills are a flawed but useful starting pointtonemadison.com We should publicly fund journalism, and think bigger about transforming the structure of media ownership.

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Lewis Peterson previews a pair of musical melodramas that will light up the UW Cinematheque this weekend. VICTIMS OF SIN (1951) and ONE FROM THE HEART REPRISE (1982/2024) screen in new restorations at 7 p.m. on Fri, Feb 9, and Sat, Feb 10. tonemadison.com/articles/mel...

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Since July 2023, sensitive and intrepid Madison players have come to gather at Communication for the free improvisation music jam "All The Sounds Are Done." @nothingunfinished.bsky.social catches up with its co-hosts Sahada Buckley, Jakob Heinemann, and Tim Russell. tonemadison.com/articles/all...

Liz DiNovella, a great friend and a true light among media/culture/smartass barfly people in Madison, could use some help as she recovers from a concussion. Please chip in if you can.

Concussion Crisis, organized by Elizabeth DiNovellawww.gofundme.com Hello friends, family, & companer@s, In November, I suffered a serious concussion. I am still u… Elizabeth DiNovella needs your support for Concussion Crisis

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What exactly do you value about Tone Madison? What do you want to see more of? As a reader-supported publication, it’s really important that we produce journalism that you actually care about. Take our survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tone Madison Reader Surveydocs.google.com Your feedback is so valuable as Tone Madison heads into our second decade of publishing. This survey will take less than 5 minutes to complete and is anonymous, unless you decide you want a sticker (i...

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Part two of our favorite songs of 2023 series is now live. Find out which new local releases turned our collective ear between January and December. And check back tomorrow for part three. tonemadison.com/articles/ton...

Tone Madison's favorite songs of 2023, pt. IItonemadison.com A small collection of Madison songs that made a genuine impact.

Excited to see this rolling out after the heroic amount of work @stevenmps.bsky.social has done coordinating it!

A full week's worth of our year-end music coverage begins with this celebration of 15 songs from Madison-based artists. Click through to find out which songs resonated with us in 2023. tonemadison.com/articles/ton...

Tone Madison's favorite songs of 2023, pt. Itonemadison.com A small collection of Madison songs that made a genuine impact.

Madison friends: I'm potentially looking for a 1BR/studio/roommate situation in July. Gotta be cat-friendly, east or north side preferred of course😀

Started playing Pentiment and immediately got a new “having a cold one with the lads” image

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One year after Madison365 revealed Kay LeClaire had lied about their indigenous identity, @rmbanting.bsky.social and Jenny Fierro reflect on "the systems in place that allowed them to carry out their racial fraud for so long and with such intricacy." tonemadison.com/articles/why...

Can't stress enough that if you've donated to Tone Madison, you are helping us do a wildly improbable thing in this day and age: keeping a small publication afloat, while paying our writers and maintaining our independence. Please help us reach our fundraising goal by midnight!

Today’s your last chance to TRIPLE your impact! #NewsMatch, the Loud Hound Foundation, and your fellow Tone Madison fans will 36x your new monthly donation or triple your one-time support — but only until the clock strikes midnight. Become a Sustainer: tonemadison.com/donate/

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Hey you! Yes, you! Have you donated to local media yet this season? No? Consider helping Tone Madison reach our year-end goal. The more new Sustainers we get, the better we can consistently publish funny, fierce local journalism. tonemadison.com/donate

[email protected] has also been hard at work coordinating our year-end local music coverage. We're the only Madison publication that has consistently done that in recent years. The depletion of media everywhere means less arts coverage. You can help us fix that: tonemadison.com/donate

Music Editor @stevenmps.bsky.social tracks our stellar 2023 year in music coverage. Staff and freelancers consistently exemplified mutual understanding and proper care through their work. tonemadison.com/articles/a-y...

Another one for the "@jmcjmc.bsky.social is a prince" file: John spent a good bit of his birthday putting the finishing touches on an in-depth story about poop

Bio-cash: How a cow-powered, controversial fuel ingests Wisconsin clean energy dollarstonemadison.com A national grant program funds rural solar panels and wind upgrades, but fuel made from animal waste is getting a bigger piece of the pie.

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In this week's Microtones, long-time service industry worker Sara Gabler shares five truths about being a server that every customer needs to know. tonemadison.com/articles/my-... Illustration by Rachal Duggan!

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Dane County should not let the Wisconsin Air National Guard off the hook for PFAS contamination at Truax Field, writes guest columnist Jake Schlachter.

Guest commentary: Dane County needs to postpone a deal to indemnify the National Guard for PFAStonemadison.com A proposed agreement could cost residents hundreds of millions of dollars and threaten our safe drinking water.

"$500 million is the floor; truthfully, it’s not enough funds." Yep.

Press Forward must prove itself to the Black presswww.niemanlab.org "How are the neediest of newsrooms supposed to trust Press Forward when public and private funders involved have already tried to lock us out? We all have stories."

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"You can call me a purist, but if a news organization is going to attach its brand to an event, it should ensure that event aligns with its values," @stinadale.bsky.social writes of a recent Cap Times event with a defense contractor CEO.

Breakfast with a CEO, and you are (not) invitedtonemadison.com The Cap Times turned away protesters and threw softballs to a defense contractor.

Went to the neighborhood bar to try to finish a book and got handled a jilted Packers score Jell-O shot with a lid on it. Thinking of absconding with it and selling it a la Dennis Nedry’s Barbasol can

Finally pulled the trigger on a Steam Deck. First order of business was to play Stray, which is every bit as fun as I’d hoped and a whole lot more

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Film Editor Grant Phipps reflects on a distinctive year in film coverage, with a reverence of our community's passion for not only writing about movies and video art but venerating spaces new and old for them. Help us continue this dedication in 2024. tonemadison.com/donate/?utm_...

An unusual, but lovingly local year in filmtonemadison.com In 2023, our writers looked towards both the microcosm and macrocosm.

The right-wing victim complex is perhaps the most corrosive, dangerous lie in American politics. This deal treats it as good and true enough to use as a basis for policy decisions. Shameful levels of giving away the game here

Part of the deal to unblock legislatively approved raises for all UW System employees requires UW-Madison to create a pet faculty position for GOP fan service www.jsonline.com/story/news/e...

Beyond heinous and reveals the bloodlust for what it is

This guy still gets invited on respectable TV news shows all the time.

I love that I get to work with Steven. He’s compiled a brag thread showing what we spend our money on. We’re proud of it. We still have a ways to go to meet our year-end fundraising goal, so please help if you can. And keep reading 😎 tonemadison.com/donate

1/?. Over at @tonemadison.bsky.social we've been filling a bit of a void for Madison, WI. Independent journalism is not easy to maintain in today's landscape, but we've managed to persist. I firmly believe in what we've been accomplishing, but we need reader donations to continue operating.

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On Saturday, December 16, Nottingham Co-Op will play host to an eight-act bill. Each act would have appeared at Truckers Atlas, had the DIY venue not been forced into an abrupt closure. Music Editor @stevenmps.bsky.social takes a closer look: tonemadison.com/articles/tru...

Truckers Atlas is dead, long live Truckers Atlastonemadison.com Nottingham Co-Op will host a massive farewell show for DIY venue Truckers Atlas as its proxy.